Savile Row threads

Usage examples of fibres.

When examined under a weak power, they were found quite softened, so that they were readily penetrated by a blunt needle, torn into fibres, or compressed.

As the thin fibres of meat were completely overlapped by the margin, they were not pushed at all inwards, across the blade.

If very small objects, such as fibres of meat, or moderately small objects, such as little flies or cabbageseeds, are placed close to the margin, they are either completely or partially embraced by it.

When thin fibres of meat were laid along the margin of a leaf which stood almost upright, the secretion ran down to the ground.

The struggle was between my will, my identity, my very self, on the one hand, and on the other, the ten thousand ancestors who were twisted into the fibres of me and whose ghostly voices were whispering of the dark and the fear of the dark that had been theirs in the time when the world was dark and full of terror.

Bagnet is an exartilleryman, tall and upright, with shaggy eyebrows and whiskers like the fibres of a coco-nut, not a hair upon his head, and a torrid complexion.