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They are always suspended over a precipice, dangling by a slender thread that shows every sign of snapping.

Redlich noted that this is another common thread in false confessions.

Colfer's artistic callings share a common thread: they are deeply personal and rooted in a challenging childhood.

There, he first picked up needle and thread to mend the shirt of an SS guard who had just beaten him.

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But it was the labyrinth for which the earlier economist held, so he thought, the thread.

The organism is an actively motile spiral thread, about four times the diameter of a red corpuscle in length.

I shall then give an account of my various excursions in an Appendix, and afterwards resume the thread of my journal.

Its anterior portion is slender and thread-like, while the posterior portion is thicker (Fig. 112).

Spirochte pallida is an extremely slender, spiral, motile thread, with pointed ends.