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The thread approached the needle's eye; it was nearly in, when the arm-chair gave a very little shake, apparently of its own accord; the old lady missed her aim, and the needle and the thread were as far apart as ever, while the small imp sitting quiet at her side was unsuspected. Not once nor twice only was this little game successfully played.
"How comfortingly definite. I'll see you again during the next hundred years," jeered Mabel. "You know I don't mean that," reproached Frances. "I do intend before the end, This happy couple shall meet again," chanted Elfreda as she peered into the lemonade pitcher. "Precisely," laughed Frances. "Did you play 'Needle's eye' when you were a little girl, Elfreda?"
What is it, my Orpheus?" here Nello stretched out his arms to their full length, and then brought them round till his hands grasped Tito's curls, and drew them out playfully. "What is it you want of your well-tamed Nello? For I perceive a coaxing sound in that soft strain of yours. Let me see the very needle's eye of your desire, as the sublime poet says, that I may thread it."
"Had we ne'er heard that Scripture word, 'Not lost, but gone before." Mrs. Gamp, with some hazy recollections of the New Testament floating in her mind, invented the admirable aphorism that "Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye."
Winding all up, with one of those amazing confusions of a Scriptural recollection which prompts her at another time in the novel to exclaim, in regard to the Ankworks package, "'I wish it was in Jonadge's belly, I do, appearing to confound the prophet with the whale in that mysterious aspiration," by observing at this point, "Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye.
Riding one day on a donkey around the walls of Jerusalem, I had a glimpse of Her standing on the ramparts above me by the gate of the Needle's Eye. But as I looked up, the sun was full in my eyes and I could distinguish only the lashing of her skirts in the wind, and a halo-like aura of gold about her head, which was uncovered. At that distance her face was a featureless oval.
If you scrawl all over the face with which the coarse finger of the potter has decorated a water-jar, the injury to the wretched pot is but small, but if you scratch, only with a needle's point, that gem with the portraits of Ptolemy and Arsinoe, which clasps Cleopatra's robe round her fair throat, the richest queen will grieve as though she had suffered some serious loss.
It would appear an impossible task to steer accurately with so little light; but once on the other side of the lake it was found that Nicholas had hit a well-beaten track as neatly as a thread finds the needle's eye. Far off, out of the dimness, came a sound welcome because it was something to break the silence but hardly cheerful in itself. "Hear that, Nicholas?" "Mission dogs."
It is possible that the camel should be made to go through the needle's eye. It is possible." "The position, you know, is not one of great wealth." "It is to me, who have barely hitherto had the means of support. Will you tell your husband from me that I will accept, and endeavor not to betray the double trust he proposes to confer on me? It is much that he should give to me his daughter.
He loses no time in profiting by his past experience, and is quickly creeping the gantlet, as it were, or braving the needle's eye of this narrow passage. It is doubtful whether in his natural life he ever fully effaces the telltale effects of this demonstrative au revoir. Such, with slight modifications, is the plan evolved by the whole cypripedium tribe.
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