Somehow, despite palsied fingers, she man- aged to thread the needle with the pale blue thread.

Tendrils grew out of the case, pale threads thinning to invisibility.

Her eyes fell on the chip of stone on its pale thread and widened again.

Together they looked at the pale threads of steam rising from the kettle.

There were a few pale blue threads clinging to the broken point.

It had been tickling at his attention all along: a pale thread that curved along the edge of the swamp, straighter than a river.

By Jupiter light the pale threads gleamed in his hair.

The pale purple thread was all used up; a new one was broken off.

A pale thread of light touched the bomb.

Directly ahead, two broad cubes were strung in succession along the pale thread of the singularity.