packthreads

And to this purpose several packthreads were let down with small weights at the bottom.

Gulliver's Travels 1896

On these packthreads the people strung their petitions, which mounted up directly like the scraps of paper fastened by school boys at the end of the string that holds their kite.

Gulliver's Travels 1896

He ordered many packthreads to be let down, yet not a person offered to send up a petition, but instead thereof very bold demands, the redress of all their grievances, great immunities, the choice of their own governor, and other like exorbitances.

Gulliver's Travels 1896

Gulliver, in Lilliput, tied down by a thousand packthreads.

The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works Thomas Carlyle 1838

And to this purpose, several packthreads were let down, with small weights at the bottom.

Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World 1726

On these packthreads the people strung their petitions, which mounted up directly, like the scraps of paper fastened by school boys at the end of the string that holds their kite.

Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World 1726

And to this purpose, several packthreads were let down, with small weights at the bottom.

Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1706

On these packthreads the people strung their petitions, which mounted up directly, like the scraps of paper fastened by school boys at the end of the string that holds their kite.

Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1706

And to this purpose, several packthreads were let down, with small weights at the bottom.

Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1706

On these packthreads the people strung their petitions, which mounted up directly, like the scraps of paper fastened by school boys at the end of the string that holds their kite.

Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1706