a woven maze of tiny glittering lines, exquisitely inter-threaded

under the interthreaded honeysuckle and greenbriar

Cooper interthreaded his fingers and flexed his hands palm to palm.

silk fabrics interthreaded with gold and silver

Why wasn’t it a fine thing to be ready with your money? Why wasn’t it good to share your food an’ drink? She had never had the courage to ask Robert to explain, and now as she thought of Mrs. Morphy’s generosity, interthreaded with her thought was a remembrance of this saying of Robert’s.

1922, Grant Showerman, Horace and His Influence, London: Harrap, Introduction, p. xiii,
The myriad and mysterious interthreading of motive and action, of cause and effect, presents to the near vision no semblance of a pattern, and the whole web is so confused and meaningless that the mind grows to doubt the presence of design, and becomes skeptical of the necessity, or even the importance, of any single strand.

I clearly remember the evenings I went to gather a friend from choir practice. I could hear the music from streets away—interthreaded voices cast into the immense night,

the black moor, interthreaded with briny waters

The traveler on this road stands a fair chance of missing his connecting links in the great railway chain which interthreads the continent east and west […]

The sensuous reality which interthreads and supports all the gropings of my imagination […]

The divine interthreads the earthly in these plays:

[…] Christianity is slowly but steadily, and as surely, interthreading her bright woof-lines into the texture of national and political, as well as social life:

an immense lake of ceaselessly interthreading grays and silvers

[…] we know how [every neuron’s] dendrites and axons interthread with other nerve cells.

The traditions of thought and practice found today in the region weave together local and exogenous strands, in a variegated fabric […]. Indigenous and exogenous marriage systems, methods of praise and prayer, food and drink taboos, and dress codes all interthread, but not in a static or homogeneous way.

One, two, three, four step forth, and, to and fro,
Delicately and imperceptibly,
Now swaying gently in a row,
Now interthreading slow and rhythmically,

We watched the little double-decked tram-cars gliding by, the opposing, interthreading streams of pedestrians, and a fleet of coal barges coming up the river […]

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