Crossword-Solution: FICELLE 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Her function speaks at once for itself, and by the time she has dined with Strether in London and gone to a play with him her intervention as a _ficelle_ is, I hold, expertly justified.

What acquaintance could she have with old English tavern customs? If Drood is Datchery, then Dickens used a form of a very old and favourite _ficelle_ of his: the watching of a villain by an improbable and unsuspected person, in this case thought to be dead.

Maria Gostrey and Miss Stackpole then are cases, each, of the light _ficelle_, not of the true agent; they may run beside the coach “for all they are worth,” they may cling to it till they are out of breath (as poor Miss Stackpole all so visibly does), but neither, all the while, so much as gets her foot on the step, neither ceases for a moment to tread the dusty road.

Boum donnait, la plupart du temps, des choses trouvées dont l'attention faisait le plus grand prix, telles que pierres de couleur ou de forme un peu inhabituelles, bouts de ficelle ou bouts d'étoffe, clous, etc.

Our model was worked in écru thread but there is nothing to prevent several colours being introduced, for instance écru, black or Gris-Ficelle 462 for the netted foundation; Rouge-Cardinal 346, for the darning stitches, and Chiné d’or D.M.C green and gold or blue and gold, for the loop stitches and the threads that are carried across inside.