The skeleton of the full-term child was discovered with twine around its neck at a house in Fore Bondgate, Bishop Auckland, last month.

For example: “Cast rubber, with ficus tree surface residues on canvas; glass; twine; and wooden support.”

My father had had the foresight to prepare a box of underwear tied with twine for each of us.

Mom held up my name badge, which was a cross section of a tree on a necklace of twine.

Lamont wanted to take all his collections: the birds’ bones and the collar buttons and that ball of twine that kept getting bigger and bigger in his room.