Then we bathed in life-giving sunbeams, screened from the piercing air by the strands of the silk-walled tent.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
They're not accustomed to it yet, and there are two barbed strands in it.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss
Sitting alone in your room with your poor strands of coloured silk that had once been intended to make so beautiful a pattern, poor boy, you will know that you have failed.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole