The slender thread of water that remains in the Colorado's channel continues to flow south, but is soon swallowed up by a sea of sand, far short of its delta, which lies 100 miles farther on.
And I also started to see the thread of water that links so many of your songs, where cleansing, where the washing away, where the rivers and tides take and neutralize our anguish.
For example, Associate Professor Nick Reid and Professor Patrick D. Nunn have analysed stories from Indigenous coastal communities and have seen a thread of discussions about the rise of tidal waters that occurred between 6,000 and 7,000 years ago.
Is a thread of irony at work?
15 1 A THREAD OF GRACE, by Mary Doria Russell.
A thread of #Coachella highlights thus far.
Draw a thread of events together.
Flying from Boston to New York, my habit is to take a seat on the right-hand side of the plane, but the other day I sat on the left, and was rewarded, at that hour of midmorning, by the sun's reflections on the waters of Connecticut — not just the rivers and the Sound but little ponds and pools and glittering threads of water that for a few seconds hurled silver light skyward into my eyes.
Like the woman who carefully threads a glass of water under the hem of her dress and up to her lips before she'll allow herself a sip, smiling with satisfaction.
Among the articles inside the cloth bag: a white plastic bag, a cellphone that someone had lent to him for his New York visit, a bottle of water, some white thread that he gives to people as a blessing and many pieces of paper.
