He also takes out some small items, including a coil of thick, stiff red cord.

It seemed to be of vegetable fiber, woven tightly together into a thick cord.

One of the two parcels was fairly heavy, tied with thick cord.

Muscles stood out of his neck like thick cords.

For many minutes I gnawed away at those thick cords like a dog on a bone.

This they did, and presently the thick cord that bound them was in two.

His hand clutched another thick cord, one that ran down to the bottom of the stairs.

Her foot struck a thick cord; she bent down, felt knots.

Something with a thick yellow electrical cord wrapped tightly around its neck.

The loop of thick cord passed around his neck with the ends through the hole.