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Updated: May 20, 2025
The contrivance for apprizing the watchmen of the approach of an enemy, and for taking them prisoners, seems a notable invention of our countrymen; for surely an enemy might easily destroy these net-traps to catch soldiers, these pack-thread fortifications. As in this country it is necessary to travel in the night to avoid the heat of the day, our men came to the town about five in the morning.
The only thing that surprises me is that the sticks have stuck to her all this time." Ultimately some of the minor spars did go nothing important: spanker-booms and such-like because at times the frightful impetus of her rolling would part a fourfold tackle of new three-inch Manilla line as if it were weaker than pack-thread.
"Perfectly true; but there was an airhole in the cellar and the wine was in bottles. I cannot throw the loop through this partition nor move with a pack-thread a cask of wine which may perhaps weigh two hundred pounds." "No, but you can take out two or three boards of the partition," answered Blaisois, "and make a hole in the cask with a gimlet."
"Whether it was that they had bound the man with a piece o' bad rope, or that the strength o' Samson had been given to him, the Lascar could not tell, but he saw the Englishman snap the rope as if it had bin a bit o' pack-thread, and jump overboard. He swam for the junk where his little girl was.
A seaman was passing along the outer edge of the hurricane-house at the moment, coming from the wheel, and with the decision of an old salt, he quietly passed his knife across the stretched cordage, and it snapped like pack-thread. The grapnel fell into the sea, and the boat was lossing in the wake of the ship, all as it might be while one could draw a breath.
I took care to place powder, pomade, combs, pins, and everything that a lady needs, on the table, not forgetting ribbons and pack-thread. The next day I found play going on in a very spirited manner, but the two cousins were not at the tables, so I went after them. They told me they had given up playing as Barbaro always won. "You have been losing, then?"
I have always protested against this carelessness and slovenliness of the English poor. In an essay that I once read before an appreciative audience " "It ain't string," said the carrier sullenly, "it's pack-thread."
Very smoothly he would go, and as gentle as a turtle-dove; until his rider fully believed that a pack-thread was enough for him, and a pat of approval upon his neck the aim and crown of his worthy life.
Those who go to the devil in youth, with anything like a fair chance, were probably little worth saving from the first; they must have been feeble fellows creatures made of putty and pack-thread, without steel or fire, anger or true joyfulness, in their composition; we may sympathise with their parents, but there is not much cause to go into mourning for themselves; for to be quite honest, the weak brother is the worst of mankind.
To do this he suspended the pack-thread by pieces of string looped over nails driven into beams for that purpose.
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