Word: packthread
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...needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stuff'd, and other skins Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves A beggarly account of empty boxes, Green earthen pots, bladders and mustyseeds, Remnants of packthread and old cakes of roses, Were thinly scatter'd, to make up a show. . . . Goods, Chattels. Before the New York Court of Appeals came the case of a man who wanted to sue another man for alienating his wife's affections and criminal conversation (adultery). The case (Hanfgarn v. Mark) had been appealed to test two phases of New York...
...that stalwart man with a base-ball bat; give him room! He ties the end of a packthread to a ball, which he tosses up, strikes with his bat, and in a graceful parabola it sweeps over the heads of the crowd, and - see! the man on the roof has caught it. A burst of applause greets this brilliant play. Alas! he is on the Nine; an instinct stronger than that of preserving life seizes him; quick as thought, he throws it to second! It has hardly left his hands before he realizes that he has made an error more...
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