Planted with their broad ends on the deck, a circle of these slabs laced together, mutually sloped towards each other, and at the apex united in a tufted point, where the loose hairy
fibres waved to and fro like a top-knot on some old Pottowotamie Sachem's head.
The edges of these bones are fringed with hairy
fibres, through which the Right Whale strains the water, and in whose intricacies he retains the small fish, when open-mouthed he goes through the seas of brit in feeding time.
It had been a clinging life; and though the object round which its
fibres had clung was a dead disrupted thing, it satisfied the need for clinging.
At last the breeze came; the schooner sidled and drew nearer in the dark; I felt the hawser slacken once more, and with a good, tough effort, cut the last
fibres through.
Life is a question of nerves, and
fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.
Ah, count," said Albert, "I assure you Madame de Morcerf speaks freely to me, and if you have not felt those sympathetic
fibres of which I spoke just now thrill within you, you must be entirely devoid of them, for during the last four days we have spoken of no one else.
The aspect of external objects is often a mysterious guide communicating with the
fibres of memory, which in spite of us will arouse them at times; this thread, like that of Ariadne, when once unraveled will conduct one through a labyrinth of thought, in which one loses one's self in endeavoring to follow that phantom of the past which is called recollection.
Of what moment was it to me, in filling the destiny of the linum usitatissimum, whether I grew in a soil a little more or a little less fertile; whether my
fibres attained the extremest fineness known to the manufacturer, or fell a little short of this excellence.
He could no more stir in her the emotions that make the sweet intoxication of young love than the mere picture of a sun can stir the spring sap in the subtle
fibres of the plant.
When the substance is in a proper state for the next process, it betrays evidences of incipient decomposition; the
fibres are relaxed and softened, and rendered perfectly malleable.
The canoe was between thirty and forty feet long, and several feet in width; constructed of birch bark, sewed with
fibres of the roots of the spruce tree, and daubed with resin of the pine, instead of tar.
I felt a sort of pitying anguish over the pathos of my own lot: the lot of a being finely organized for pain, but with hardly any
fibres that responded to pleasure--to whom the idea of future evil robbed the present of its joy, and for whom the idea of future good did not still the uneasiness of a present yearning or a present dread.
