Miyon was not fooled, but a narrow thread of satisfaction stitched up his pride.

He needed one narrow thread of talent.

Clark's truck forged along the narrow thread of dry track between the high-water mark and the dunes.

Everything went on trust now and the narrow thread of his vision to which he clung.

Soon the river lay a hundred feet below them in the valley, a narrow bright thread bordered by thick wild brush.

Additional clouds reaching from there toward the core are cut by strange, narrow "threads."

New streams melted from the snow banks, and I watched several mountain sheep go down a narrow thread of trail.

He had a narrow thread of solid path, and he forced me into a runnel.

Telephone poles grew from the snow-covered ground, their sagging wires wearing narrow threads of white.