He picked up the conversational thread without missing a beat.

There was a brief pause, then Prince Delor took up the conversational thread.

"It is... it is true that we have methods of healing Humans don't," she said, forcing the words out, picking up the conversational thread, anchoring us in the present.

Within conferences, members open separate conversational threads called topics for specific items of interest.

Prodigy is the easiest of the services to use (go to the classical-music bulletin board and select Opera) and has the best system for following certain conversational threads while ignoring others.

Ms. D'Cruz thought we were asking about marijuana, and it became, as so often happens at New York parties, a lost conversational thread.

Dax decided to head off that particular conversational thread by discussing the artifact.

But before the conversational thread could become more raveled, another, older Security woman shot down the lift tube that connected the booth to an upper level.

According to the four-hour mini-series that has its premiere on the History Channel this week, the common conversational thread would be gold.

I caught hold of the conversational thread and gave it a jerk in the desired direction.