Ligatures

Usage examples of ties.

Jondalar knew of, but it worked well for them because of their kinship ties and a unique reciprocal relationship that was mutually beneficial.

Though their relationship was not through his mother and her ties, he felt they were as much kin as his own blood.

When not driven by the demands of reproduction, male mammoths tended to form small herds with loose ties for companionship.

He would have continued to name his ties, but he was stopped by the look on her face, though he could not fathom its meaning.

Ayla lifted her tunic, unloosened the drawstring ties from around the waist of her leggings, and lowered the side enough to show her left thigh.

Guban wanted her, but the reason he gave was to establish closer ties with sonic of the distant clans, so they could share news, particularly about all these new ideas.

I represented in the American legal system a group of men whose allegiance was not to God and country but to family, not to their natural-born families but to a family with ties that bound so tightly they cut into the flesh.

Dominic Volare, an old-time mob enforcer with strong ties to the boss.

Rastafarians striding purposefully, thin men, in short sleeves and ties, riding to work on their too-small bicycles.

They had paid such a price in blood and hope for their land as had never been paid before, and now they were bound to that soil by ties stronger than steel.

With hasty care Lan began examining cinches and girth straps, and the leather ties that held saddlebags, water-skins, and blanket-rolls behind the saddles.

We may, however, perhaps speak of the group being matrilineal, meaning by this only to denote the fact that kinship ties, such as they were, were, and, under the circumstances, could only be, established through the mother.

His ties were designed to deflect the melting glances of girl students and to enable him to watch all students without their watching him.

Knowing no more of him than the fact that he can channel, you must begin by looking at what ties the victims together.

The Borderland rulers all had ties to the White Tower, and no doubt Elaida was still eager to get her hands on him.