You may, if you like, be a thread-waxer or a needle-threader; you may be one of the thirty men it takes to make a buttonhole, but a complete tailor-alas!
"Prose Fancies"
Richard Le Gallienne
Should the needle prove brittle and the thread rotten, the threader must resign.
"Modern Painting"
George Moore
The background of this picture shows the densely matted bush of the Filbert Islands in their interior portion, a jungle growth which might well baffle any but the most skillful threader of the trackless wilds.
"The Cruise of the Kawa"
Walter E. Traprock [Pseudonym of George S. Chappell]