| 单词 | tangle |
| 例句 | As she walked absently toward the stove she took out a few tangles with her fingers. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The eyes were still liquid and golden brown, staring at dark mountain dirt and dry oak leaves tangled in the grass. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Bahumat kept roaring and swinging and biting, but the ropes were beginning to tangle him up. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z And all at once his own stick was between her legs, tangling them as she tried to turn again, scraping down her shin. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Leaves and twigs were tangled in his thick, wiry black beard. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z And he hid behind a tangled clump of undergrowth, keeping himself very still. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z I walked around the corner, past the Aguileras’ house, and cut across two empty lots, where I got the left leg of my jeans tangled up on some bramble weeds. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Nathan was happy when Mother Water Monster stopped near a bed of rocks that nested on a tangle of seaweed. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “This seems so silly,” she remarks, frowning at the tangle of ribbon. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Behind her followed the other two enchantresses, also in flapping night robes, their hair unbound and falling about their shoulders in a mass of snarls and tangles. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Henry rolls his eyes and seals it with a smiling kiss, and they fall back into the pillows together, Henry’s wet hair and sweatpants and Alex’s naked limbs all tangled up in the lavish bedclothes. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z But Violet’s room is the exact opposite of the rest of her house—a beautiful mess of strewn clothes and starry lights and a tangle of chargers under her desk. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Suddenly, the coaches were there, reaching into the tangle of arms and legs, pulling off bodies and tossing them aside. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z He reached down and tried to pull my shirt off, but it got tangled in the tube. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z My hair was still too tangled for me to run my hands through it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Farther down in the tangle of wood and schoolbooks and concrete, he uncovers a bruised toe. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z From the doorway, I see Nat’s soft purple blanket in a tangled heap. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The woman’s hair was tangled in hairpins which had been pulled loose and hung around her head like ornaments. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Ralph crouched still, tangled in the ferns, and for a time he heard nothing. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z I don’t need to, since my hair is generally tangle free, but combing my hair has this calming effect on me. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Now the wreckage of the hull, which was resting against a big rock, was teetering and threatening to collapse on top of the tangled animal. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Not even if you avoid getting lost or accosted in the tangled web of twisting streets and dead-end alleys. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It’s hundreds of miles long and everyone in Northern California has to worry about getting tangled up in it, especially little kids and poodles and now asshat surfers. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Smoke burned his throat as he dashed through the tangled bushes. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z They landed in a tangled crash and then Two Step popped up with a huge smile on his face. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z I slept in a tangle of blankets on the laundry room floor, the only part of the house with no windows and also a door that locked from the inside. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Any excuse to escape judgment and play for a while in the tangle of trees by the roadside was good enough for me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Nature of the beast. Funny, right? You freed me, only for me to end up tangled in something even stronger.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Bramble and bits of leaf were tangled in her hair, and...two tiny silver bells looped on ribbon were tied around each ankle. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She shoots a pointed look at my hair, which, I have to admit, is a tangled mass held back by a headband. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Second is that one must tangle with these crazy bulls. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Great masses of curled brown leaves lay tangled in the dead grass, and the branches that thrust against the graying sky were almost bare. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z His brown tangled hair is long like a hobo. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The first button primed the javelin to explode on impact, releasing razor wire that would tangle and shred an opponent’s wheels. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z This time, the tangled section is much harder to find. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z When the herd passes, the thing that was August is a tangled mass of flesh, innards, and straw. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z It was bad enough to hear Big Ma supposing out loud every kind of selfish trouble Cecile was tangled up in. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z She ran on, through a tangled fringe of gossip, never seeing that these names were alien to him, they meant nothing, and that as she prattled unaware he grew colder and more silent. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Then she said she’d call again later, and I went to bed with my stomach so tangled up in knots I couldn’t sleep. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z I sighed, worried now that the story was coming out like this, so tangled up that I thought I might trip on it. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Their rickshaws all waited idly in the lane, and Father had to steer through a tangle of tin and tires. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z When the fish hit he jerked them out quickly so they wouldn’t get tangled up in roots and dead branches. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z That tangle of shrubs there should be cut down to bring light to the path. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Jon could almost see her in that moment, long-faced and gawky, all knobby knees and sharp elbows, with her dirty face and tangled hair. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z While we followed the silent street to Nyame’s shimmering gateway, I followed my tangled and raw feelings back to their beginnings. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z I felt arms catch me as my feet tangled in the stool and I began to topple to the floor. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I couldn’t see through the tangled vines into the former hot zone. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In no time at all they came around a clump of tangled bushes and found themselves in the place where the storehouse peered down at the sleeping cabins below. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Besides the tangle itself, there was the weathering of that first year, when the Knot hung outside and became hard as a rock. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt ensnared in a tangle of deep shadows, shadows as black as the night that stretched above his head. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Lightfoot, her toes curled tight around the branch, she walked a few feet, hopped down to a larger limb, then swung hand over hand through the tangle of leaves until she reached the trunk. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It’s common to use but to mean “nothing but” or “only”—just be careful not to get tangled in negatives, since but in these cases already has a negative sense built in. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Picking up her net, Meera shook out the last tangles and began arranging it in loose folds. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A tangle of sunken living room surrounds me. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z There was one hairy moment when Lonna and her stepdaughter stood glowering at each other, eye to eye, as if they were about to tangle. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The pine trees gave way to a tangled thicket of Brazilian peppers and dense ground scrub, which looked impenetrable. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He was rescuing a throw pillow, thrashing it back and forth to free it from a tangle of imaginary vines, when he heard the cellar steps creaking. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Jackson Park was one square mile of desolation, mostly treeless, save for pockets of various kinds of oak—burr, pin, black, and scarlet—rising from a tangled undergrowth of elder, wild plum, and willow. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Cleopatra’s ships raced through the tangle of warships and turned south. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z His hair was tangled with leaves, his sweatshirt streaked in mud, and his nose reddened with what promised to be a full-faced sunburn by the end of the day. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “I’m Okeoma,” the man with the tangled mop of uncombed hair said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Beneath her bright beaded keffiyeh, her tangle of black matted hair sticks out. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry, honey. I knew you’d get the bends. Think I’d tangled with a bull. But I was having such a run of luck it seemed like I ought to let it ride.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z No slave had ever keeled over dead at a spinning wheel or been butchered for a tangle. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It looked to her like a dark tangle of rope, but she couldn’t resist their excitement. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I opened my palm and looked at the strands, long and dark and tangled. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z On the floor two dresses, one black, one pink, silky expensive-looking things, lay in a tangle, and round this pile lay kicked-off shoes on their sides. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Leaning my head out the window, I let the wind hum in my ears and drown out this day, even though I know it’s tangling my curls into knots. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He had been imprisoned in a lightless garret room for far too long: his beard was wild and his hair was a tangle. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z The wires were a tangled bundle and his hands were shaking. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Coming home through the meadow everything had seemed so simple, and here it was all tangled again. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z She picks up her charm necklace, tangled in a heap on the top of the dresser, and rubs the gold chain between her fingers, trying to loosen the knot. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z They wrapped their arms around her back, and Ivy’s fingers tangled with Layla’s. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z She threw her net, hoping to tangle my sword hand, but I sidestepped easily, sliced her spear in half, and stabbed Riptide through a chink in her armor. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z I try to lose myself in the feel of his hand tangled with mine, in the silk of his hair between my fingers. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Her hair is a tangled mess, and both of her eyes are blackened and swollen shut. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The four cardboard flaps have been pushed back to reveal a tangle of shredded paper strips. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z Here the breeze was fitful and allowed the strings of the parachute to tangle and festoon; and the figure sat, its helmeted head between its knees, held by a complication of lines. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Mikhail hastily smoothed his curly black hair, tangled from having been under the cowl, and approached the princess carefully. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z He lies, unkempt and unwashed, in a tangle of sheets on the bed, passed out. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Headlights cut through the night, tangling in the trees closest to the yard, as several cars pulled into the grass, the rowdy sounds of men echoing through the still night. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Of the sixth in the long row, nothing remained but a single leg, still tangled in its chains, swaying with each breeze. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Make way,” Edna says, but not even Her Imperial Highness can get through this tangle. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Nemur screeched as the audience, divided in its aims, became a tangle of arms and legs. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z She needed to grab hold of Ess, needed to stroke her tangled hair, clutch her thin shoulder. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z We continue to share with our remotest ancestors the most tangled and evasive attitudes about death, despite the great distance we have come in understanding some of the profound aspects of biology. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We were tangled in such knots of resentment we hardly understood them. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Aaron’s fallen back into the soft sand at the river’s edge, his robe getting tangled up in his legs. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Normally the underside of the green roof was lit by a tangle of golden reflections, and their faces were lit upside down-like, thought Ralph, when you hold an electric torch in your hands. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z A third ended with a cave-in of tangled wood and soil. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “I don’t know as I do, Jeth. My thinkin’ is all of a tangle, whether I’m out in the fields or in my bed or settin’ out under the poplars listenin’ to the others talk. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z He stepped over the spider’s tangled legs to join Harry, who stared at him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He spoke to one of the black brothers, an old man with a twisted back and a tangled beard. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The challenge to the writer is to use those resources so that the reader can graft the information in a series of sentences into his web of knowledge without getting tangled up in either. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But thinking how to explain it to Charlie—that was the tangle. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z A lovely if somewhat bedraggled young woman—dark tangled hair, sea green eyes — runs toward us in nothing but a sheet. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z We have dirt on our cheeks and twigs tangled in our hair. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Esteban finished picking the whitish fish from the tangle of bones and laid his knife and fork across his plate. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z When his car hit a truck, he launched through the windshield in a perfect arc until he landed, tangled and speared, in the arms of a pine tree. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z I want to dig through the dirt, climb through these tangled limbs, inspect this gnarled trunk. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It looks out over the lagoons and the Wooded Island, now a wild and tangled place that perhaps would make Olmsted smile—though no doubt he would find features to criticize. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I tangle my feet up in plush floor rugs. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I stroke her tangled hair, my hand brushing against her hot wet forehead. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She hadn’t seen too much of them, either, just a tangle of perfect legs and arms. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Yoren sat on his horse, frowning through his tangle of beard. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The three creatures became one ecstatic tangle of golden, white, and black fur, cavorting in the moonlight. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z They came through a tangle of thornbushes to a large clearing. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Moments later, Christian dribbled into the box and faked to his left, a move that left the North Atlanta goalie tangled in his own limbs, before shooting right: another goal. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Probably a lion’s mane because it had so many “strings,” which weren’t really strings or hairs or a tangled lion’s mane but lots and lots of tentacles. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Before them a pale lord in ebon finery sat dreaming in a tangled nest of roots, a woven weirwood throne that embraced his withered limbs as a mother does a child. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Even though I tried to take more care with mine, some of my gifts disappeared into the tangle of wrappings. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z He braids the doll’s hair, and his long thin fingers move so quickly, they look like they’ll get tangled. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z He retrieved it, found some thin line tangled in a ball, and untangled enough to cut and tie ten feet to the handle of the bucket. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Fang yelped and tried to run, but got lodged in a tangle of thorns and yelped even louder. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Bod wandered over to the northwestern part of the graveyard, to the tangle of ivy that hung from a yew tree and half-blocked the far exit from the Egyptian Walk. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z A piece of something silvery—it looked like wire—was tangled around one of his legs; the other end of it was caught in the fence. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z I sniffed the top of her head, which was sweet from coconut oil and tangled from no combing. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z He had been lucky that the two of them hadn’t become tangled up in the sudden eruption of water. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The sniper fires; the National Guardsmen fire back, and the man drops, his legs tangling on the fire escape. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I hadn’t noticed that, either, tangled in the mud of my thoughts. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The distant roof was a tangle of budding branches. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The railings were a delicate tangle of iron grapevines and creatures. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Their oars were crossed, their hulls locked together with grappling lines, they were impaled on each other's rams, tangled in webs of fallen rigging. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The hours tangle together, a mess of night sweats and medicine and not being able to keep anything in my stomach. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Out of the comer of his eye, he saw the hulk they'd been tangled with drifting downstream with the current, spinning slowly as men leapt over her side. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A tear in his neck exposed a tangle of silver tubes. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Her eyes flickered over to where her partner was still hidden behind a tangle of picnic tables. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z His hair is mussed, his clothes all tangled, and there’s lip rouge on his face. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He hands me a glass screen with bright lines tangled across it like veins. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z She ducked under the tangled honeysuckle toward the garden path, using her trowel like a machete to hack through some overgrown vines that crowded her jungly little porch. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z There was movement behind the tangle of shrubs that separated the yard from the woods. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z When she told him, the boy rushed at her, but his feet tangled in his tokar and he went sprawling headlong on the purple marble. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A someone who splintered the knot into silver threads that tangled us, netted us, made us long for the dull chafe of the previous boredom. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z I got tangled up with a few of them once—just a stupid fight—and the next thing I knew, I woke up one morning busted out of my mind, bleeding out my side. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z He saw three gates during his wanderings—the main entrance with its gatehouse, a postern by the kennels, and a garden gate hidden behind a tangle of pale ivy. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But there was nothing built atop it, just the hole cut into the earth like a dead mouth agape, tangles of briars and waist-high grass growing up all around. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Sometimes, when I glanced at the mirror and saw the tangle of our twirling forms, I couldn’t immediately discern myself in the crowd. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z His words made her thoughts twist and snarl as if they were a tangle of seaweed. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z In that rosebush, concealed and protected by dense tangles of fiercely sharp thorns, was the entrance to a rat hole. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Like a malefic kitten with a ball of string, she would tangle his emotions until he lost all distinction between love and hate, joy and sorrow. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Knots and tangles, Jaime thought, wishing he could cut through all of it with one swift stroke of his sword. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Moon Girl’s right. You don’t want to tangle with those monsters. You never know when their animal side will try to take your arm off.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Now he took off the radio’s back cover, revealing a tangle of tubes and wires. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Only the faintest light came through the tangled summer growth above them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z His limbs were tangled in chains, and a strange orange glow filled his eyes. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Now we were out where there were no more huts and the tall elephant grass started to get tangled up with the edge of the jungle. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Once or twice a day the stronger men would go out to the bobbed wire and end any shamblers tangled up in it. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z In a knot of tangled arms, legs, and muskets, the four of them wedged into the doorframe. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z I knew he was tangled in the debris under the surface. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The ravine was tangled with brush, which was hard to walk through, but in the ravine grew seeds and roots. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Right away, June’s arms came around Ivy’s back, and they sat there together, a little tangle of friendship. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Bridge stared at herself: at her long hair bundled on top of her head with strands escaping, at her penciled eyes looking dark and huge, at her arms inside the tangles of thin bracelets. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z He sat beside him and stroked his pale and tangled hair. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z She leans forward, her hair wet and tangled down. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Then he sat carefully on a fallen trunk near the little cliff that fronted the lagoon; and the tangled reflections quivered over him. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z My sister did not start talking among nonfamily until a year after I started, but she was neat while I was messy, my hair tangled and dusty. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They were under houses, tangled in shrubbery, floating in water, hanging in trees, drifting under wreckage. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z The humidity had wreaked havoc on her hair, which was a tangle of greasy blond. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Its knots and whorls indicated his increasingly tangled thoughts. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z On the wall behind her, a painted wisteria vine frays into a tangled modernist spray of color that makes von Rumpel uneasy. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z When she opened her notebook, her thoughts snarled like those tangled branches. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Her tangle of black matted hair is tied off her scrawny face with a bright beaded keffiyeh, but otherwise allowed to stick out however it likes. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z As they walked, the boy dabbed at his cuts with the wet rag, picked bits of straw out of his hair, and ran his fingers through the tangles. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z She saw two destriers collide in full armor, going down in a tangle of steel and horseflesh. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The dogs were just under the windowsill, a tangle of limbs, heads to the heavens, as if they had been waiting, for weeks, for him. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z There were little flowers she did not recognize, white and palest blue; and endless, tangled vines; and here and there a fallen log, half rotted but soft with patches of sweet green-velvet moss. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The Papacy itself had been abolished after Calvin’s death, and a tangle of courts, colleges, and councils, collectively known as the Magisterium, had grown up in its place. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z One day she came back grinning her horsey grin, her hair all tangled and her clothes covered in mud, clutching a raggedy bunch of purple and green flowers for Father. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It’s empty now, a drop cloth on the floor, a tangle of wires poking out of the center of the ceiling. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She longed to curl up with Ess, to cuddle up and inhale the salty, dirty smell of her tangled hair as she slept, pretend that none of this was real. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z A thick tangle of blond curls dripped down past his golden choker and high velvet col-lar. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Out of the broken, twisted, tangled mass streaked a brown furry ball. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The man in the black coat had tripped in the tangle of ivy and half-broken headstones. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z His hair was tangled with weeds and seemed to be growing through a rusty crown; his skin was greenish, and his long beard trailed over his throat and down into the water. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z A half-moon lit the path, and Nhamo saw that the leopard was merely a tangle of leaves by the water. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Jubilee, you know I had my doubts about this rally and you getting tangled up with all these people we hardly know. Worried you’d be disappointed or hurt.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z One jellyfish had a paralyzed ten-foot-long swordfish tangled in its grasp. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Still curious, Captain Cook started walking round and round the tripod, till the clothesline, the penguin, Mr. Popper and the tripod were all tangled up. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z But the cow serpent thrashed around and got even more tangled. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z It was the most perfect sensation I had ever felt—Julia Bishop’s long, smooth legs tangled with mine while we kissed. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z He put on his glasses, waded away from Ralph, and crouched down among the tangled foliage. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Tragedy is ugly and tangled, stupid and confusing. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z It took a couple seconds for me to realize where I was, to recognize Fang as the lump in the bed opposite and Faith as the tangle of dark hair on the pillow beside me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z I didn’t like it when my feelings got tangled, so I ran downstairs and played chopsticks on the piano. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, Trey’s feet get tangled, mixed up, and he falls backward. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z But Osh reached down and plucked a single strand of pearls from the tangle. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Every single inch of me is aware of him, of the way his fingertips graze the back of my neck, the way his tongue perfectly tangles with mine. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Matt helped Maria over a tangle of wires into the darkened room. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z On February 8, one of the men found a twig tangled in some seaweed, and the crew gathered around as the twig was fed to the fire. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Tubes and cables snaked across his body, coiled into his flesh, and wound in a tangle up to an incomprehensible mesh of blipping waveforms and drip-dropping fluid pouches. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z All around, other bodies grunted and fought, a tangle of forms that had to be Sadna’s heavy crew. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z A tangle of golden-brown snakes writhed among one another, twisting and coiling in an indistinguishable mass. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z On one side of them was thick forest; on the other was the brown river, and beyond that a tall tangle of elephant grass and bamboo. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Pop, tangled in sheets, sleeps on his back, both arms crossed over his eyes. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z Kick until my legs are free from the tangled blankets. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Every idea seems to her connected to thousands of others by a tangle of pulsing nerves. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z They rushed down the river but were suddenly turned by the rapids and hurled against some boulders, then became trapped under a tangle of vines and tree branches. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The paper was thick; at each torn edge was a fringe of tangled fibers. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Finally, Lily stumbled into the kitchen in white jeans and a T-shirt, but her hair was a tangled mess. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z He could see a striped savage moving hastily out of a green tangle, and coming toward the mat where he hid, a savage who carried a spear. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z In one hole, he’d found only a tangle of leaves and berries, and in another, a mousetrap, which snapped on his thumb. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z The unmistakable shadow of the figure’s silhouette is perched prominently in the dome’s tangle of metal. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Colonel Cathcart was not thinking anything at all about the chaplain, but was tangled up in a brand-new, menacing problem of his own: Yossarian! Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Good news, because I didn’t want to get my umbilical line tangled up with a spinning Agena! Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bod followed it up the hill to the Egyptian Walk, where the winter ivy hung in green tumbles, an evergreen tangle that hid the mock-Egyptian walls and statues and hieroglyphs. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z I shift over to lie down, and then I pull him down with me—chest to chest, limbs in a tangle. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Three fat raccoons shuffled into the garden, dragging a tangle of vines behind them. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z They swung them like lassos and began to ensnare Typhon, throwing lines around the creature’s legs and arms, using the tide to keep circling, slowly tangling him. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z His hair was dark and tangled as usual, but Annabeth thought about the streak of gray he used to have on one side. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The next thing Flynn knew, he had flown through the hole and was now lying in the harbor, with his feet tangled in a pile of wreckage. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I run upstairs to get my phone and find it tangled up in the bedclothes. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The earth is very black and spongy underfoot, often obscured by tangles of vines with colorful blossoms. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z She steers him into the booth and Alex’s side, and he pulls her in after him, and the six of them fall together in a tangle of hoarse laughter and expensive shoes. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z But her thoughts felt like a mess of tangled yarn. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Behind them, on the border itself, was a tangle of cast-off machinery and tanks that seeped a black liquid onto the ground. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I grab another arm—I’m not sure who it belongs to, there are too many tangled hands—and look up at her. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z More dead jungle ruins flashed past, an astonishing amount of wealth and materials left to rot and fall back to the green tangle of the trees and swamps. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Like, holding holding her hand, their fingers tangled up instead of wrapped around their palms. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The whole thing tangles my brain in knots. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The moon ran with him, slipping through a tangle of bare branches overhead, across the starry sky. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Wild eyes, hollow cheeks, my hair in a tangled mat. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The two spells combined did what one alone had not: The spider keeled over sideways, flattening a nearby hedge, and strewing the path with a tangle of hairy legs. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Both of them always dropping their rattles or rubber pacifiers and tangling themselves in blankets, why so tortured, little angels? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z And then she felt her cheeks heat because she’d thought of just what they were doing in that tangled heap. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z But she was surprised to discover another emotion tangled up with the relief. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z I did not bother to reply; I only pressed on, burrowing through the tangle of arms and legs like a hare through briars. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Nelson bang-bang-banging on the back door got tangled up with my sleep, so that, even after I was awake, the next hours had the unsteady presence of a dream. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Half the ship’s oars were broken off or tangled. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Around us families stir and mingle, tangling one another in arms. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z His dark bushy hair and long gray beard were tangled. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I reached for Mary Alice to keep her from tangling in her skirts and pitching off the float. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Hand tangled in the line, I remember that. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z She wrestled it into the tangle of fig roots. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew I was somewhere in the southern Commonwealth, but the precise location was buried, tangled up with other memories that I was not eager to unearth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He could scarcely believe the sight before him—Rome’s beautiful princess, her hair dirty, tangled, and uncombed, her clothes draggled and torn, her face thin and wild. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z And C.P. was moved to hear how, as a child, Ann’s only dolls were the ones she made herself out of grass she pulled up, the tangled roots serving as hair. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z When I open my eyes again, Hamlet’s solemn little face is before me, and his fingers are tangled in my hair. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “More like thick and tangled, like my hair,” Stella mumbled. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He dropped to his knees and wriggled through the tangle of stunted, twisted trees that hid the opening beneath the huge rock. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Palmer tried not to hear, but even as he bobbed on a merry-go-rounding horse, as he breathed deeply the sweet crispy tangle of a funnel cake, there it was: pop ping. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z The dozen rich families have intermarried so many times that family trees are tangles of roots. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z She treated me like an adult, asking for my thoughts, listening keenly as I described the various worries and administrative tangles students had brought in. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z She always noticed when our threads became tangled or work had to be ripped out and done over. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z I knew she was no match for him in that tangled mass of limbs and logs. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I just made a picture of a girl rolling down the stairs tangled up in her crutches. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z But up close, in the sunlight slanting in from the window, they’re a light golden color and so long I don’t see how they keep from getting all tangled up when he blinks. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The ground began to slope upward, and the tangle of barbed branches we moved through became less dense. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z When I was a little girl, my love for Matilde was as thorny and tangled as a blackberry bush. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Her feet tangled in each other and she fell onto the ground, clutching her bleeding arm. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Looking at her now, pushing her tangled hair from her face, the idea is ludicrous. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z She turned around slowly, her hands in a nervous tangle before her. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “Chavez is greedy. If she can take us as a prize, she’ll call us pirate. If she wrecks us, tangles us, and sinks us, she doesn’t get the money.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z If I can just stay calm and avoid getting tangled up... The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z And, in a tangle of wings and claws and arms and legs, her grandmother was there. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The ship was trying to turn upside down, kept from capsizing only by the strength of its masts where they tangled in the Teeth. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z A face pressed close to hers, long black hair and tangled beard and rotten teeth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He came to a tangle of iron and wire: some sort of machine, long ago buried and forgotten. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z "What did you do to provoke them? It takes two to tangle, you know." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Then I heard dogs barking—not too far away by their sound—and in sudden fear, I plunged through a tangle of new young growth and into the trees. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Sarai wanted to say all this, but it tangled up inside of her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It was a tangled knot of fears and deceits and dark struggles for power that had disguised itself and almost destroyed everything. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Another, wilder and more tangled landscape rising up, from beneath the surface of this one. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I have spent so many hours of my life trying to brush out tangles. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I pushed against the earth, trying to stand, and found my fingers tangled among the cool, waxy leaves of the mallow plant that clung to the marshy verges of the river. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z They stride through a tangled maze of pathways, fanning out among the graves, carrying AR15 rifles, 12-gauge shotguns, and .38-caliber pistols. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z An arm emerged, then a face—brown hair, tangled and matted and streaked with grey, two fierce eyes, a nose, a mouth, a beard. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was an odd, awkward shape, as if it were wrapped around a tangle of kindling sticks. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Once again she was a tangled knot of leashes and cats. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I thought there were excellent materials in him; though for the present they hung together somewhat spoiled and tangled. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The glue sniffer at camp tangles with them, and Enrique steps in. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z There were people who were born with an inability to be tangled up in dark emotions, in complications, and Iloba was one of them. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z A dozen lines of thought began and continued in my brain without ending; crossing, tangling, like threads on some meaningless warp. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The girl drops her bag and grabs my chin and wipes my face clean enough so I can see her bright teeth and tangled mass of hair that looks like rusty wire. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z She pulls up her shirt to expose the pale, taut skin of her stomach, marred by a tangle of gouges. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “Well, he ain’t clean when he comes to school. He don’t grow much beard, but his hair’s so long and tangled and dirty it looks like a dern cootie stable, haw!” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z My handles are tangled in Tagoe’s wheel from after we chased Peck here, jumping off our bikes to tackle him. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I was odd and wary, and that was just the way of things, like my gray eyes and my untamed hair, red and tangled as a wild rose vine. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z She grasped its tangled mane with both hands and sat sidesaddle upon it, her broken leg sticking out. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z I see a rolled-up newspaper, a collection of picture books I read when I was little, a bin filled with Christmas lights in tangled clusters. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Men who’d been working together, now a tangle of body parts and broken pieces. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z I’d even washed my hair and combed out all the tangles. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I jump up, quickly pull on my jumpsuit, and finger-comb out the tangles, weaving a loose braid. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Compared to the man on the television, however, whose gaunt face was surrounded by a matted, elbow-length tangle, Harry felt very well groomed indeed. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Maybe he was still tangled at the Neptune fountain, or scouring the streets looking for Leo. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He had lost his hat and his hair and beard were tangled up, as if by a hurricane. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The cruelty of racial prejudice was so often accompanied by absurdity, a tangle of arbitrary rules and distinctions that subverted the shared interests of people who had been taught to see themselves as irreconcilably different. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The tangle of lines showed him the mechanics of this parody; he examined the white nasal bones, the teeth, the colors of corruption. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z He was tangled up in the mess and struggling to keep his head above the water. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z Below her feet was a tangle of vines and roots, and she had to be careful where she stepped if she wanted to avoid a turned ankle or wrenched knee. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The man and the woman and the books and the rain recede until there is only the radio and its tangle of wires. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z They had a bottle they passed between them, and Leroy staggered when he walked down the old barbed-wire fence, gathering tumbleweed tangled in the bottom wire. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Much as the people complained, however, the tangled party line setup had become part and parcel of Milagro’s communication and rumor systems, and as such, people had come to depend on it. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He released his grip and backed away, his feet tangling in the wreckage of the broken barstool. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He held out a mess of tangled sheets. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Thirty feet from the edge of the highway, we caught sight of the roof of a dark green van through the tangles of buttonbush along the river’s shore. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z He translates my angry intestines, and with steely concentration draws a tangled knot of lines on his map—a path crossing itself over and over in every direction but straight. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Flora Baumbach's pudgy fingers, swift with a needle, were clumsy with a comb, but after several tangled attempts she ended up with three equal strands. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z The Walton County jail was a dull structure surrounded by a tangle of razor wire that ran along a chain-link fence and glistened in the sunlight. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z My blanket tangled about my feet, so I let it drop, but Doctor Nolan didn't seem to notice. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z My hands came up to tangle in his shirt—I needed to grasp something, to hang on before I fell too far. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z When the canoes came around a sharp bend, jagged rocks unexpectedly grabbed a hold of one while a tangle of vines and fallen trees ensnared it. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z They went down in a wild, roaring tangle of twisting bodies and scrambling feet and slashing fangs. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z It is larger, but still rustic and natural, overgrown with landscape, banks of wild white roses tangling across the porch roof. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z His nose had been battered to his cheekbones; his heavy forehead was nearly lost in a fierce tangle of eyebrows; and his neck seemed as thick as Taran’s waist. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z It was spinning out of the thunderclouds like gray spider webs and tangling against the foothills of the mountain. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “We were lying in a tangled heap on the floor when Ashish walked in.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z But Will kept his head: instead of slashing wildly and getting in more of a tangle, he watched the flow of the net and cut it through in a matter of moments. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Her hair had come loose and was hanging in a tangled blond curtain all around her face. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Beneath a tangle of dark brown hair his face was almost feral, with a wide mouth, sharp nose, and pointed chin. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Jagged rocks and fallen trees and tangled underbrush made it difficult for her to walk. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Lying tangled up on top of each other, they all drank but Nately, who kept groping ineffectually for the door handle. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Elodin wrenched off one of the chair’s legs and used it to batter at the tangled green web that stretched across the opening. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Ivy reached out and took June’s hand, palm to palm, no lacing or tangling at all. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The hair on his head was long and dark and tangled. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z At the domestic level, then, Adams inherited a supercharged political atmosphere every bit as ominous and intractable as the tangle on the international scene. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “He died last night in a fishing accident. We found him this morning tangled in his net out in White Sand Bay.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He brushed the tangled hair out of his eyes and skinned his nightgown off. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z They camped in a dry gully bordered by a tangle of shrubs, and took shifts dozing on the hard rock ground and keeping watch. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I took the paper to my desk and sat down with a pencil and forced myself through the tangle of numbers step by step. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z On our side of the pond there’s a strip of sandy beach, but the far side has a steep, scooped-out bank, tangled with bushes and the roots of trees. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z When the guards finally locate me, I’m sitting on the floor of the wardrobe, tangled in silk, screaming my head off. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z They were standing in a country lane bordered by high, tangled hedgerows, beneath a summer sky as bright and blue as a forget-me-not. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Slowly and carefully she worked her way through the tangled mass. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Arnold’s photograph of the aftermath showed a Lilliputian man, possibly Burnham, standing before a great mound of shattered wood and tangled steel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Apparently this poor creature had been mucking around on the bottom of Long Island Sound and had somehow gotten itself tangled in the net of this sunken fishing boat. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Then her mother took a comb and gently teased out the tangles in Lyra’s hair, smoothing it back from her forehead, parting it neatly. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z More than this, in order to avoid going deep into the forest the boys worked near at hand on any fallen wood no matter how tangled with new growth. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The moon and stars looked down upon their struggle, their pale light filtered through the tangle of bare limbs that twisted overhead. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z All around us, trees and weeds and tangles of underbrush rustled and sighed and moved. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z I looked at my face in the mirror as I brushed through my tangled, damp hair. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Our lives trail around us, sometimes broken and sometimes beautiful, but all puzzled and tangled up into the lump that is us. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z At night, I dream I’m in Hideo’s bed, tangled in his sheets, my hands running along his bare back, his hands gripping my hips. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The garden was a tangle of weeds and almost all the shutters were hanging from their hinges. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Jack points to three large computer screens on the desk, attached by a wad of tangled cords. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z His thoughts began to tangle, and his speech became incoherent. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z She found Poppy sitting on the floor of the shop, enmeshed in a tangle of yellow yarn. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Shadow waited for the buffalo man to say something more, to explain what gods were, to explain the whole tangled nightmare that his life seemed to have become. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z I turned to see my father leaning in the doorjamb, bleary-eyed, hair tangled, dressed in a mud-splashed shirt and jeans. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Last fall they found Calvin Danver face down and tangled up in a Gantry watering hole on the river. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Dad says, "I don't want you getting tangled up in this Tariq mess." How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He began to follow it among the tangled paths of his own thoughts, over the cold, dew-wet ridge and down into the dawn mist of the fields below. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z His face was grimy and his beard , tangled, but his expression seemed kindly. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I stand hunched, twigs and leaves tangled in my hair. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Hazel seemed warm and very alive, not like the ghosts or the other reborn mortals Leo had tangled with. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z My dress clings to my body, my skirt bunching and tangling around my legs. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Scarcely visible, far back in the dense tangle of the glossy leaves, are the eyes of cats. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I bent and picked up a tangle of shattered wood and metal. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The reins were tangled in the buckles of the metal bracer on his arm. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z He did not want to tangle with humans and was trying to keep his distance, but the shrinking circle gave him no chance to flee. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z It crashed into the monster, knocking it over in a tangle of legs and ropy appendages. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z "I have a warrant for a certain boy—" Yoren stepped out of the inn, fingering his tangled black beard. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The net got snared on the array of spikes jutting out at all angles from the tail, and now it was tangled front and back. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z His eyes were grey and greedy, his teeth yellow, his forked beard a tangle of snow and silver. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z At last, with one final effort, the car cleared a tangle of dead leaves and small branches across the road, and came into a clearing by the gate of Hill House. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z All along the fence, especially along the lower line of wire, all sorts of rubbish had caught and tangled. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Grace twisted the charms around and around, tangling the chain around her neck. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The densest tangle on the island, a mass of twisted stems, black and green and impenetrable, lay on their left and tall grass swayed before them. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z It was the world and broken things, and hand-carved beams and tangled bedcovers, and a lovely tattoo round her navel, like a girl with the hope of a future. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z But Eleanor's sweaters were always stretched out, and her hair always looked tangled. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z It feels like a fugue and my drunken fingers are tangled trying to play it. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z After, when they were a sweaty tangle of limbs, she told him, “I’m not ready for the other things yet.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Her hair had gotten tangled in his fishnets and she was pulling to free herself with such force she was sure to drag his boat under. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z The palms that still stood made a green roof, covered on the underside with a quivering tangle of reflections from the lagoon. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z In the secret parts of his peculiar brain, those unhappy and inextricable tangles which he felt at the roots, the boy was disabled by something which we cannot explain. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Arm almost cried out as the door opened and the tangle of emotions rushed in. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z His face was almost completely hidden by a long, shaggy mane of hair and a wild, tangled beard, but you could make out his eyes, glinting like black beetles under all the hair. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z His shirt and jeans were rumpled and dirty, his red hair a tangled mess. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z They had just left a tangle of apartment buildings in the year 2194. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Few axes had ever swung in that black wood, where even the moonlight could not penetrate the ancient tangle of root and thorn and grasping limb. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He was wandering deeper into the tangle of ivy and trees that made the graveyard’s northwest quadrant so dangerous. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z And the tangle of vines and undergrowth, which unbalance me occasionally, trip him at every step. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The back room was more of a tangled mess than the front. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z “I just don’t trust him,” Milo brooded in the plane, with a backward nod toward Orr, who was curled up like a tangled rope on the low bushels of chick-peas, trying torturedly to sleep. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The scraggly, stringy, nasty tangle of hair that run ’round his head jus’ above his ears made it look like his head was wearing a furry little winter coat! The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z He was barking and ran circles around them until they were all tangled in the chain. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z It almost looked like a dirty, tangled net, but it was too irregular for netting. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z More tears leaked out down his cheeks and into his tangled beard. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Wound too loose, it was like to fall off; wound too tight, it would tangle, trip, and bind. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Her blonde hair is a tangle of blood, mud, and ice, her braid unpinned and hanging limply down her back. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The tangled mass of limbs slowed my dogs and they all but tore the treetop apart getting out of it. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z My hair grows tangled and dull in the heat and smoke, and dirt has started to coat my face. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Limbs are tangling up, feet stepping on feet. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The skin on his hands looked dry, parchmentlike, and his lips formed a thin line beneath the heavy tangle of gray beard. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z There it was, surrounding me: my wild and tangled and colorful garden. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Hillsdale was upon her before she knew it, a tangled, disorderly mess of dirty houses and crooked streets. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z I let him stop every now and then to sniff a tangle of weeds or inspect a tin can on the side of the road. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Heaped by the steps of Blake’s cabin, the tangled vines already drying out. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I think about my hair; about the tangles I battle every morning. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Alex falls out of bed the following morning with a low-grade hangover and one of Henry’s swimsuits tangled around his elbow. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I can't even begin to imagine what I look like: mismatched clothes, my hair loose and tangled, a run in my stockings. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Before he could reply, the bell on the bakery door jingled, and Nina sailed inside, cheeks rosy, brown hair in a gorgeous tangle, and declared, “Someone needs to start feeding me sweet rolls immediately.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The tangle loosens under her thumb and she pulls the strands apart. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z A soft hand smoothed the tangled hair off her forehead. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z “Destiny is not a single path, but many, Ekon. Some are as straight as an arrow, others twist and tangle like thread. Our duty is not to question them but to follow them.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The view of the ship and ocean disappeared, hidden again by the emerald tangle of blurred trees and vines. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z I agree we should, and within a few miles we break out of the tangled undergrowth into a meadow under the power line. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember a huge tiredness coming over me, a kind of lethargy in the face of the tangled mess before me. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z At first I made no headway against its obstinate mats and tangles. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z This tree, unlike every other one she’d seen, still had its leaves—a massive cloud of green hanging low over the grassy land and supported by a mess of tangled branches. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Her eyes flashed green and the sun was all tangled up in her hair and it was easy to see she was the yin to Stan’s shiny yang. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Down on the water, the ship was still there, shifted by the tide, but so tangled in the rocks that it hadn’t fled down the coast. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z I move on to mat exercises and after the last crunch lie there spread-eagle and panting, my hair a tangled ball around my red face. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z The sea had played along until it had tired of the game, and dragged their boat under in a tangle of rope and sail and screaming men. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The scrap of song came from a woman’s throat, and Joe thrashed and beat his way up the incline and through the hedge, a tangle of muscadine vines, Virginia creeper and hibiscus rusty with age. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z For half a heartbeat Bran thought maybe a root had gotten tangled round his ankle ... until the root moved. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The chair fell to the floor in a ruined tangle of timber and upholstery. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z We crashed against the rooftop in a tangle of limbs. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z At the foot of Harry’s mattress he saw two large, disheveled shapes emerging from tangles of blankets. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z My excitement tangles with a thread of sadness. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Why, with a car like that, he would no longer have to hang onto his tail to keep it from tangling in the spokes. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z In the moonlight he could see Harley’s body hanging from the fence, where they had tangled it upright between strands of barbed wire. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I tried to brush my teeth and comb through my tangled hair. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The entire group tumbled down the stairs in a tangle of arms and legs. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Finally she could see well enough to climb through the tangle of limbs that covered the hole. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z We are a tangled web of arms and tears, melting and holding. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Behind the overpass rose a tangle of neon blue tubes—three giant water slides behind a billboard: White WaterRapids. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The fields had small trees scattered over them, pine and maple saplings, and the grass was thick and tangled, as tall as Dicey’s waist. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Tayo watched it with his head against the ground, conscious of pine needles tangled in his hair. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z But everything was so tangled up that she couldn’t tell if it was mercy not to kill him, or only cowardice. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z They raced along the pig track, but the forest was too dark and tangled so that Jack, cursing, stopped them and cast among the trees. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z He, too, was a wild child, dirty and ragged, his hair a long mass of tangles. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z The lives and the suffering of the women got tangled together at Tutwiler. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Already the work area was a mess of tangled wires and pulsating fiber optics. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z I sweep away the crushed glass and tangled ribbons. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Denna didn’t notice, as she was busy tripping and falling over into a loose, laughing tangle of arms and legs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Branches tangled his feet and whipped at his eyes, grey-green needles scattered as he shouldered through them, snapping. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Against the perfect cover of vine and bramble and tangled drift sticks, a little gray brush rabbit sat quietly in the sun, drying his breast fur, wet by the grass dew of his early feeding. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I caught sight of myself in a window on the way into the compound, and my cheeks and eyes were both bright, my hair tangled. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The asphalt had split in a lightning-streak pattern, and more tangles of weed sprouted through the fissures. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He sucked at the raw meat and tried to spit out the leg bone, but it only dribbled over his lower lip and tangled in his beard. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I have literally just dragged myself into the tangle of hushes at the base of the trees when there's Cato, barreling onto the plain, soon followed by his companions. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z His boots were dry and cracked, his silver- blond hair matted and tangled. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z If my stomach weren’t so full, it would be tangled up like a mess of yarn. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z My hair was still wet, so I sat and combed it, tugging at the last of the tangles till I was sure no sticks or leaves clung to it. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z I felt like a man sliding down a steep cliff, clutching at shrubs and tangles of brambles and coming up empty-handed. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Pax was knocked off the ledge, and when he hit solid ground again, tangled in uprooted shrubbery, the broken world went silent. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z One hand moved guiltily to her tangled brown curls. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z There were two main horrors to which it was subject, the first of which was toe horror peculiar to all balls of string—that they invariably became tangles instead of balk. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw her lying partway on the bed, partway on the floor, tangled in her sheets, her eyes open but not blinking. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But he had no interest in tangling with Bristle again, and in fact he had no interest in anything besides getting back to his humans. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z And afterward, in the small cabin, they’d do this, this tangle of bodies, this blurring of the edges that kept people distant and lonely. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The rear garden was a tangled jungle in which every type of plant and flower had proliferated and where Clara’s birds kept up a steady din, along with many generations of cats and dogs. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He sprawled on the ground, his legs tangled under him, one foot in the stream. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Half tangled in the remnants of his dream, Lazlo was still seeing the wide blue eyes of the beautiful blue girl, and he was frustrated to have wakened and lost her so abruptly. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He led the way and set himself as by right to hack at the tangles. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z One of the fuzzy ones got tangled in my fringe and tickled me unbearably. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Finally the gown fell aWay, a pale tangle round her feet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I was concentrating on the image and my piece of board, but our legs were tangled up together. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z And so they fled: away from the gym, away from the paths, away from the Institute—into the tangled rock-jungle of sand dunes, ridges, and crags that made up the island’s interior. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z How did the Spirit Bear move like a ghost through such tangled forest? Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z He was so huge that he took his horse down with him in a tangle of steel and flesh. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It would have been a lot easier than reaching through the tangle of roots and branches, trying to bring the vibrasaw to bear against a precise spot. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Pax slept fitfully through the afternoon, plagued by dreams in which his boy was tangled in smoking wires. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Warm fingers tangle in my hair, and a moment later, my blindfold falls away. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I tangled a bit with it, ended up besting him when he became impatient and tried to cut me from below. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Moss was so little, just gaps in his teeth and scabs on his knees and tangled hair and shining eyes. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Drawing from sources as diverse as aikido and barroom brawls, the instructors taught us ways to tangle with an attacking or resisting inmate that you weren’t likely to see in, say, a John Wayne movie. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Then all the mice, down to the littlest one who was tangled in the fringe of the carpet, began to chant, “Ralph is greedy, Ralph is greedy!” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z The only thing visible in the intricate tangle of hair was the teeth striped with green slime and his motionless eyes. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z A small child cowered in the corner, her blonde hair loose and tangled, her feet bare and black with dirt. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I fingered the ends of my long, tangled hair, and was surprised to feel some of the tightness in my chest ease up long enough for me to take a deep breath. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The column of earth thickened into the twenty-foot-tall figure of a woman - her dress woven from blades of grass, her skin as white as quartz, her hair brown and tangled like tree roots. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z She scoured him until he was pink, dried him with a big, fluffy towel, and tried to get a comb through his tangled hair. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Alarmed, he said the kite might get us in trouble with the Mahasreh if it got tangled in their trees. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z Slopper ran around the table and pulled the sheet off the second one, getting tangled pretty good in voluminous folds and coughing from dust. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z His hair was pale silver in this light, curled and tangled in its usual way. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Jake tried to bolt for the door and tripped over Cob’s fallen stool, sprawling to the floor in a tangle. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Now trees were growing up again, but there were tangled old limbs in piles and ancient stumps overgrown with lichens and moss and little green leaves and ferns. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z “Then lock the door and don’t open it again for anyone but me,” he said, running his hand over my tangled hair before he went to take Miss Maggie home. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z A rough, rocky tangle of trees and wildlife. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z She bent down to adjust the hem so it did not tangle around her ankles. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z The moment stretched out, soft and gauzy tangling with dark and heavy. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z No. Koffi's thoughts tangled together, unable to process what had just happened. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z From high above, a tracing of his routes would have looked as hopelessly tangled as Cobble’s Knot. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z When I got on my bike, I sat on the wire to keep the skirt from tangling in the greasy chain, but then the front popped up and I could not see over the top. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z She does not say anything but merely stares at her son, tangled in thoughts Werner cannot guess, then remembers herself. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z But as Sasha began exploring the topic online, they found that some people had developed language for combing the tangle into individual strands. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Grandpa got tangled up in some underbrush, and lost his hat and spectacles. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They morph into a tangle of pale arms and legs. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The last thing I see as I shut the bathroom door is a tangle of feet toppling forward onto the bed. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z There was a big hole in the recently whitewashed wall, and a tangle of rubber tubes and pipes was sticking out of it. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Trees creaked and groaned, and roots tangled my feet, but still I moved forward. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Her eyes were now scared, but framed by a ridiculous lopsided tangle of hair. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Both kids were curled in a messy heap together, snoring soundly, black hair mingling with brown, arms in a tangle, mouths open. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The headache’s coming on and my thoughts begin to tangle. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z An old tugboat—tangled nets, smoke, and flaking paint—pulled into the quay. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z “Why is that?” inquired Matt, looking down at the tangle of plastic strips. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Their hair was tangled, but many of the people had dramatically painted faces, with a bright red bar from ear to ear, white-chalked eyelids, streaks of black charcoal. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Thrown off-balance, Booth got tangled in the framed portrait of George Washington hanging on the front of the box. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I vomited on a tangle of weeds, my retching and groaning drowned in the deafening roar of the MiG. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The bedcovers were in a tangle, and there was a greasy spot in the middle of the pillowcase. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z My hair tumbles down in a tangled mess. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The arms looked like normal arms, but there were so many of them, all tangled together, that his chest looked kind of like a forkful of spaghetti somebody had twirled together. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z You’re not supposed to see the limbs of your friends and relatives crammed into plastic bags, all tangled up together because no one knows who the limbs belong to. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z It keeps tangling around my shoes so, of course, I hitch it up, and then Effie swoops down on me like a hawk, smacking my hands and yelling, "Not above the ankle!" The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z We closed out with Kid ’n Play’s Kick Step until our ankles tangled and we dropped onto the carpet in hysterics. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Momma is rubbing coconut oil into my hair and combing out the tangles, and let me tell you, it is one good feeling having your scalp rubbed. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z He touches the screen again, and the screen changes, but it remains just as confusing, a web of lines, tangled threads of numbers. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The field was surrounded on three sides by tall trees draped in a tangle of vines. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Neither of them wanted to tangle with that crazy old pirate again. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z The streets were tangles of abandoned cars and the sidewalks narrow paths between high shoveled walls. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z His body was tangled up in itself in the wild grass; I couldn’t tell where one limb began and the other ended. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z True Belle who helped him up from the grass, soaped his tangled hair and told him what he had to do. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She refused to wear her hair in braids and then acted as though she were dying when they tried to brush out the tangles. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z But now the feelings were twisted, tangled roots, and all the names for the source of this growth were buried under English words, out of reach. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z She had not been allowed to tend it properly penned up in this cell, but even unwashed and tangled it shone where the sun touched it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He pulled her down to the ground, and they lay facing each other, heads propped up on their elbows, lower legs tangled with each other’s. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The knight in the spiked helm reached die ram-part, but Yoren tangled his black banner around his spike, and forced the point of his dirk through his armor while the man was fighting the cloth. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I had forgotten how to act naturally, thinking way too much in each situation and getting tangled in the contradictions between my two worlds. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The work on the frame was less than half-finished and so tangled and knotted he could imagine no one ever continuing it. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z I comply, and Phil slips a soft cloth over my tightened lids and ties it behind my head, taking care not to tangle my hair. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Min’s wife emerged from behind a tangled bush, holding the bowl in one hand and a basket in the other. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The first thing my grandma did when I came back inside was to put me between her knees to comb out my tangled hair. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Before three purple-robed Syrian bishops murdered by the Portuguese were found floating in the sea, with coiled sea serpents riding on their chests and oysters knotted in their tangled beards. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When she pulled back a tangle of vines, we saw an old, worn-out, snub-nosed rowboat. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z At first he could see nothing in the dark tangle. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z A dignified little man in a bright blue tuxedo climbed through the ropes and pulled down a microphone from the tangle of wires and blazing lights over the ring. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Great trees, bare and silent, stood, rank on rank, with tangled bough and hoary head; their twisted roots were buried in the long green grass. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z When the nets got tangled, some lazy fishermen would just cut them loose and let the trapped animals die. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Jam nodded, even though the fear was still a tangled necklace in her stomach, heavy and iron. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Behind them, all the Roman guards were tangled in a weird assortment of ropes and bones. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z We hit the floor in a tangle of arms and legs. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Nat pointed at the table a few feet away, and when Jinny glanced down at it, she recognized a lumpy tuft of tangled black hair sticking out from under the tabletop. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Ralph pushed back the tangle of fair hair that hung on his forehead. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z In the matted Scotch-broom tangle he visualized the great tan body as he carefully picked each step. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “I picked up the string. It got tangled with my foot. I sat on the fence to try to get it off, and it caught on the fence.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z “I swear,” Enoch said, “if one more person tries to stop us getting on this train ...” A gunshot rang out, and the sudden shock of it made my feet tangle. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z David’s so big he doesn’t fit on Mom’s lap anymore, and they look twisted, an awkward tangle of elbows and knees, arms and legs. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Theodora and Eleanor and Luke explored the tangled thicket behind the house and found the little summerhouse, while the doctor sat on the wide lawn, writing, within sight and hearing. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z They could not dress more than twenty ships abreast, lest they risk tangling their oars and colliding with each other. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z "Chris has written so much about you. I'm sorry I'm such a poor correspondent, Chris; I found myself in a tangle of cases this past month." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was her favorite,” he said, and as he said it, a grubby schoolboy seemed to look out through Aberforth’s wrinkles and tangled beard. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Other parts were gritty with sand, or were tangled in seaweed, or were inhabited by small, scuttling creatures. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z It was as they ducked, and then struggled under a great tangle of briars, getting their clothing caught, and having to stop and free it, that Kingshaw first heard the noise. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z After she dried and wrapped her baby in a towel she hummed quietly while combing out the tangles and plaiting the damp hair. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The going never gets exceedingly difficult, but the fifteen-foot-high tangle of alder pressing in from both sides is gloomy, claustrophobic, oppressive. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He was shorter than most of the men in the village but easily twice as thick, with a tangle of graying red hair that matched his bushy beard. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The sycamores formed a solid, tangled bower that kept out the sunlight. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z They go along their own pathways, moving easily through thick tangles of thorny undergrowth. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z She slid awkwardly, one foot caught in the stirrup, one hand tangled in her reins, and she tried to drive her sword into the wolf who had bitten her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He had been allowed to keep the angle iron, and it was now stacked—four hundred thousand pounds of it—in tangled mountains all over the yard. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z On the further edge of this broad hill-back they stayed their march and crawled for hiding underneath a tangled knot of thorns. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z There was a tangle of narrow streets between there and the Royal Arctic Institute, which was the only place Lyra was sure of being able to find, and into that dark maze she hurried now. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Straight as a stick, thin as a lie, and tangled as a spider’s web!” she’d say. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Sloan flew fifteen feet and got tangled in the little kids’ tire swing., The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z The infamous tangle of narrow streets and minor waterways known as the Barrel was bracketed by two major canals, East Stave and West Stave, each catering to a particular clientele. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z And throws me back into my tangle of unaskable questions and conflicted emotions. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z My mom’s dish of tangled jewelry is still on her dresser, and her glass perfume bottles are still lined up. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z But as I went back to bed, my feelings were tangled up again. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He strode to his companions, who had taken cover in the tangle of brush. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Her gardens are full of roses—sprawling, old tangled bushes, quite a few of them autumn-flowering damasks with their last flowers still nodding and drooping in the rain. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Michael Kahale took in the scene - his boss’s robes tangled in the trigger rope, Octavian’s jewellery fuming from proximity to the Imperial gold ammunition. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The tangle of trees, fallen in such a memorable way. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The hammer’s head—a thick metal block marred with pits and scrapes—began to glow with blazing, red-hot light, and John pressed it against a tangle of roots. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Laughing, the Reed girl threw her arms around the tangled wolf and rolled them both. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I reach for the ropes, now hopelessly tangled. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Before their purchase by James Randall these two had been so tangled by sufferings that they could not weave themselves into the fabric of the plantation. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The truth is that he really was a heretic and was burned for his religious beliefs; it was just unfortunate that the Copernican model got tangled up in the whole business. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z His father was leading the whole band, striding ahead, grinning, showing his tangled yellow teeth. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The air swirls in a tempest around them, blowing open the glass doors to the garden with a tangle of billowing curtains. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Their hair is so flat, like they know exactly what product to use, and that makes me conscious of my own wild tangles of hair. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Her chin was cut Twigs and grass were tangled in her ponytail, as if she’d slept several nights in the open. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z But after a time the trees began to close in again, just where they had appeared from a distance to be thinner and less tangled. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Jennifer took off the back cover of the radio and examined the tangled inner workings. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z She stared hopelessly at the tangle of red, blue, green, and white wires. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Pushing upward with what remained of her quavering strength, she heaved it open and emerged in a tangle of bramble with summer’s last shriveled berries still clinging to the vines. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z That’s the stupid thing I see over and over in my head: the scenes from my brother Muhammad’s extreme hockey moments video when the players slam into each other and lie tangled on the ice. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z A tangle of leafless ivy clutched at the limestone walls. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z And when she had finished with these laments, she turned her complaints to me: a spot on my new dress, a tangle in my hair, my twisted stockings. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Note the tangle of vowels at the end. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He wants to stay tangled up in Henry’s legs forever. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I’ve never had my own garden but I suddenly recognized something in the tangle of this one that wasn’t beauty. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Above me is a tangle of white bars, the wheel’s scaffolding. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Her words sliced through the air and the cries and shouts and grunts coming from everyone in the tangled mass of bodies fining the stairs from top to bottom went silent. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “I would say she has more than a tangle in her yarn,” she said, her voice one shade oilier than normal. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Presently the white, broken stumps, the split sticks and the tangle of the thicket refocused. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z One of the men stood up—a huge guy with a long tangled pitch-black beard and teeth the same color. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z “I felt like I still knew how, but the words came out all tangled. My mouth and tongue were different.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The rowboat had come ashore in a tangle of bushes that overhung a small bank at the side of the river. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z When you do that, your emotions get all tangled up. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The captain is full of weatherworn wrinkles from a lifetime at sea—although his dark, tangled beard hides many of them. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The girl had a tangle of short dark hair and a face that was both attractive and, he decided, faintly mannish: her features might have been chiseled out of rock. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z He uncurls the tangled mystery of this maze. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Their progress slowed in the tangle of underbrush and the wet leaves mired the struggling animals. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z The tyke rubbed her tangled hair and sighed, a strangely adult sound that made Kira smile sympathetically. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z With no tangles to weigh it down, it flew free around my face, as clean and sweet with shampoo as Lissa’s. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Even when he fought, Redemption fought for the beauty of what his body could do, for the frailty of being human, the power and vulnerability tangled up in being flesh. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z And I recall that even then I had not yet begun to imagine the perils that tangle us. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Long, tangled masses of hair fell over her shoulders and cheeks, hiding her expression. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The cord had twisted itself into a bit of a knot, and for a second or two I actually panicked, thinking it might be irreparably tangled. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The first friend of mine who ever went into it tangled almost immediately with spies. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Sunflowers began to sprout between the beds in savage green tangles. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The computers occupied the usual place of honor in the center of the living room, with an array of tangled cables, boxes for hard drives and webcams spread across the floor. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A green balloon floats past a power line, then gets tangled in a tree. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z As a final touch, I wove flowers into my tangled hair. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z She made her way into the kitchen, trailing all three of them like a fishhook that has snagged a tangle of old tires and boots and other miscellaneous rubbish. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Eventually he fell into a vague dream, in which he seemed to be looking out of a high window over a dark sea of tangled trees. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z A few little lizard tongues, then healthy flames reaching up through the tangled nest of sticks. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z When Vivi gets down on her knees to sort through a tangle of earrings, I have a terror that she will glance beneath my bed and see some smear of blood I have missed cleaning. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Brushing my tangles out in a way that doesn’t hurt. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z The wind was gentle; it tangled my hair and ruffled the grass that swayed around his motionless form. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z This view received support from Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s now infamous report on the black family, which attributed black poverty to a black “subculture” and the “tangle of pathology” that characterized it. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Meera cast her net, the tangles unfolding in the air before her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A third of the way out, a wagon laden with melons had gotten its wheels tangled with one piled high with silken carpets and brought all wheeled traffic to a halt. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Or the traps, buoys and all, washed ashore in a broken tangle. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z A girl lay on her side, her tangled hair covering her face. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The hedge shook as he tangled with the hound. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He and his horse wandered about all day, bumping against branches, getting tangled in blackberry bushes, and rapidly losing their tempers. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z My hair has slipped free of its braid and lays in hopeless tangles. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Blue Eyes and her opponent rolled, tangled limbs flashing, a furious scuffle. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Half the tiles on the roof were broken, and a wild tangle of vines had grown through the windows and covered most of the outside wall. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Odim Street itself was shapeless and tangled, with both sides knotted in thick bush. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It lies like an empty shell amidst the tangle of the deep woods, even as I saw it in my dream. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He gesticulated, his words tangling up with one another. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “Demons get tangled in the hair,” Baba Joseph explained. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And that knot keeps growing and growing, getting more and more tangled, dragging the rest of your stories into it. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Gill nets were outlawed years ago in Florida because they kill everything that gets tangled, not just the baitfish but sharks, reds, snook, tarpon, turtles—you name it, it dies. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z He hated this feeling, the feeling that all the words that he wanted to say would just tangle themselves into a giant ball, wound so tight that nothing could manage to escape. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z With the other hand she pushed the thick tangle out of Ess’s face. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z A dark shape—some kind of animal—was wedged halfway under the boat and tangled in a fishing net, one of those big nets they use on trawlers to catch everything at once. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The river was no more than fifty or sixty yards across, and it wasn’t long before Dicey saw the opposite bank rise over her head, capped by a tangle of undergrowth and trees. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought about that thing Mom sometimes says, something about a tangled web and lying. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z The man turned and looked at her wind-burned face, tangled hair, and eyes shadowed with weariness. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z It pulled taut just as the mob reached it, and they went sprawling over it and into the mud, a tangled heap of flailing limbs. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The bloated moon lurked above the tangled mass of branches. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z I know for a fact that the latex lumps will end up tangled in electrical wires. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z On the other side tangles of flowering currant, lilac, wild rose, and rhododendron closed them in. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Her legs looked like they were tangled in vines, but then I realized they were sprouting snakes, hundreds of vipers darting around, constantly looking for something to bite. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z He pulled a container of cooked spaghetti from the shelf and shoveled the tangled nest into his mouth with his fingers. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z They found bodies everywhere, tangled in kudzu vines of the jungle, stuck in the trees high up, floating out in the surf. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z It fluttered, like a stingray beneath water, before settling in a tangle on my pink rug. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The tangled thornbushes growing among its gnarled roots were just tall enough to hide them. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Nightmare and fear and the delirium of hunger tangled together so that she stopped being certain of what was real and what wasn’t. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I also didn’t want to see Hosie Roach, a snot-nosed twenty-one-year-old mill boy in my class who stunk like a polecat and had tow-colored hair so thick and tangled it looked like a cootie stable. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I am a tangle of giggles and distractions and delirium. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z In a tangle, they’d exchanged hugs, and Tiller and Florida stood on the bank waving good-bye. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z He wondered if the littlest one still fell over his own feet and became tangled in the fringe of the carpet. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z Here, bushes and a wild tangle of creeper made a mat that kept out all the light of the sun. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The snout-nosed butterflies were everywhere, flittering in the air, resting on our bedclothes, even tangled in our hair. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Karl Johnson has since left the C.D.C., and he now spends a great deal of his time fly-fishing for A single Ebola-virus particle with a pronounced “shepherd’s crook”—in this case, a tangled double crook. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He waddled off the road, undid his breeches, and relieved himself into a tangle of thorns. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Amidships, a dozen sailors and two of the fiery fingers were struggling with tangled lines and sodden canvas, but whether they were trying to raise the sail again or pull it down he never knew. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He stuck out his hand and Adina shook it warily before turning her attentions to the tangled fishing lines. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The sheets' were tangled, his leg splinted and plastered. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Exhausted, I could barely stand in the waist-deep current, tangled up in my shorts, which had pulled halfway down to my knees. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Not the shy girl with the tangled black hair in her face, but instead her fraternal twin brother. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It was fine and dark, though the wind had made a tangle of it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Aru could now make out long swords, axes, maces, and arrows with strung bows, all jutting from the tangle of teeth. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z As soon as they were finished, they jumped up to carry huge armloads of tangled vines out to the marsh. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z He called again, but saw nothing and no one, and, carefully, he made his way out of the tangle of greenery and of grey stones and back to the path. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Ralph looked at him critically through his tangle of fair hair. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z I unwound her headscarf so it wouldn’t get tangled as she shifted against me. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Helene looked out of the window halfway expecting to see a comfort station in the distance; instead she saw gray- green trees leaning over tangled grass. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Is this a tangled feeling that everyone my age feels? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z She rolled onto her side and got an elbow under her, fighting the blanket tangled about her legs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z As they climbed higher, the patches of weeds grew thicker, and they had to be careful not to get their feet tangled in thorny vines. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Her mane of white hair was a tangle. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Here the roots and stems of creepers were in such tangles that the boys had to thread through them like pliant needles. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z We find the little turtle behind tangles of sweetbrier in the yard. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Rose, her massive curls tangled on her head in a sloppy bun, shot me a look from the tent she was dismantling, having been stuck with Homesteaders. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z There she was, a ma screecher curled near a fallen tree, along with a tangle of five squirming, complaining babies. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z She tore at the ivy, parting the long strands with her fingers, and then she pulled a backpack—a blue Adidas backpack—from the tangle of leaves. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z She can hear him unplug a radio, then tangle himself in its cords. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “The two tangled together? They look like two people in shock.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z They saw piles of rolled rugs, broken benches, a tangle of plumbing pipes, even a claw-foot bathtub. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Scooping up my cat, Nero, I plunged into the tangle of vines and weeds lining the drive. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Miss Rachel flailed relentlessly at a heaving tangle of lily pads, bed sheet, legs and arms, and twining ivy. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z "What the—?" Pong struggled out from under a tangle of wet limbs and staggered to his feet. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Two of the oldest men alive were brawling in the street, tangled up in each other and Uncle Grady’s sword, their small fists throwing pi incites. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I rush into the bathroom and jam a toothbrush into my mouth, running a quick comb through my tangle of rainbow hair as I go. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She reached into another bag and brought out a tangle of wildly colored tutus, several pairs of black tights, and some turtle-green socks. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z His hands in turn become tangled in my hair while he returns my kiss like a hungry boy. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The vibrasaw purred through heavy vines, parted tangled underbrush like a comb through wet hair, and sliced cleanly through metal when the odd misstroke brought the cutting edge down onto the track. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Unlike the stucco row house I’d lived in in London, this house, fully detached, was covered with wooden shingles, with a tangle of forsythia bushes plastered against the front and sides. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Ralph pushed back his tangled hair and wiped the sweat out of his best eye. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The smell of gas and cut grass tangled in the air. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The corporals had no heart for a tangle with the Scotsmen, who could no longer be bothered with them. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z If they trace their lineage back far enough, at a certain point it splits into white and native and a tangled web of “other.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Every bend in the path presents a prospect indistinguishable from every other, every glimpse into the trees the same tangled mass. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z And then Bran was back abed in his lonely tower room, tangled in his blankets, his breath coming hard. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But Moon Orchid immediately got the thread tangled and laughed about that. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He questioned Strawberry about the great burrow and learned that its ceiling, as well as being vaulted with a tangle of fibers, was strengthened by roots going vertically down into the floor. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He soon found that the thicket was closer and more tangled than it had appeared. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Suddenly the thin golden wire from above springs down at us, bunching in tangled loops and curls around our wrists. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z It was Old Yeller, all right, tangled with some animal as big and savage as he was. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z “It took forever to comb out the tangles.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Hagrid allowed himself to be steered into a chair and slumped over the table, sobbing uncontrollably, his face glazed with tears that dripped down into his tangled beard. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z I found Dad in the field, lighting a fire to burn the insulation from a tangle of copper wires. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Ralph threw his leg over his motorcycle, adjusted the rubber band that held his crash helmet in place, and grasped his tail so that it would not become tangled in his spokes. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z His clothing was torn, his hair and beard were tangled, and he was barefoot. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The sycamores formed a tangled bower through which the sun shone brightly, speckling the ground. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Over time her stories lengthened and tangled; they wound around her body like a heavy chain, until she could not hold them up anymore. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z There was an old abandoned cemetery atop the hill with rows of unmarked headstones and tangles of brushwood clogging the aisles. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Sadly, however, we realized that the impetuous tangle with King’s would dry up our source of new experimental results. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “Now,” said Aslan, “some of you undo that tangle you have made with those trees and let us see what we shall find there.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z My black hair is a tangle of curls. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z The moose watched all this play out on my face, a dirty boy tangled in the roots of an upended tree, hiding from the world, hiding from memories of a family and days without pursuit. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Cluny could vaguely discern a huddled figure tangled in the wreckage. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z His thin tangled hair was the same dirty gray as the stubble standing on his sunken cheeks. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It was filthy and ragged and its hair was tangled with twigs and leaves. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z The sight of him standing there, amid tangles of old flowers, is a peculiar juxtaposition. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Too late, she realized what was happening: she was tangled in the spider silk. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I’m staring at the scenery outside the window of the pony, brain tangled in bloody memories and a few regrets, when Miss Duncan asks me, “So, Jane, what do you think?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z He tangled his fingers in her soft mane, then dragged himself over her back. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Today has felt as tangled as my hair. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z She stares at her feet, silently willing the laces to tie and untie in messy bows, scowling when they tangle into knots. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Halfway across the courtyard his feet tangled in the unfamiliar sandals and he stumbled against Rosa. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Her foot was still wrapped in its makeshift cast of board and Bubble Wrap, still tangled in cobwebs. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z When Yoren had dragged her into that alley she'd thought he meant to kill her, but the sour old man had only held her tight, sawing through her mats and tangles with his dagger. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I turned a brush through my tangled curls. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “I didn’t mean to get so tangled up in this. I only wanted to be helpful. I wanted to get through...this and go back to the way things were, before.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The hole it left had filled with filthy water, but the roots were dry and tangled enough to make a comfortable seat. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z She was not sure how much time had passed, but she was tangled in bed with Odenigbo, warm and naked, when Ugwu knocked to say they had visitors. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Her black hair unfurled, a tangled banner streaming in the ocean breeze. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Barely ten minutes from the cabin, they were tangled in a thicket. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z When her bra lay beside Rishi’s bed, her jeans and underwear on top of them, all in a tangled, warm heap, she looked up at his slightly blurry form, trying to read his expression. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z They turned off the road into the bush at the side, and walked slowly through a clearing in the trees, pushing their way through the tangled undergrowth at the far end. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z When I open my eyes, the water is thick and dirty, and a group of mermaids tangled in garbage and seaweed swim toward me, their long hair floating all around their faces. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “A drunk grandfather asked for it,” she shrugged as she made her way through a thick tangle of yellowing banerbyre. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The next morning, I hear Asher’s voice drifting up from the atrium as I step out of my room, yawning, my hair tangled in a messy bun. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Midst the tangle of trees, I saw a flickering light. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z On the walk home from Francis’s—head down, sunk in a black, inarticulate tangle of anxiety and gloom—I heard Julian’s voice saying my name. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I hesitated on the edge of the fight and the edge of the woods, too tangled in my mind to enter either one or the other. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Roy chained his bike to a gnarly old stump and picked his way through the tangled trees. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The whole greenhouse came to life as vines tangled poxies, gigantic Venus flytraps gulped down demons, and trees swatted the waves of flies filling the air. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z But Sohrab was looking at a pair of kites tangling high above the trees. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Liyana lay on a low wall outside the school, her head swimming in a pool of sun, body hidden by a tangled vine from anyone who might approach. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z His eyes were closed now, but except for that, he looked more than ever like a marionette, a marionette flung carelessly into a corner, arms and legs every which way midst tangled strings. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z My hair was in tangled patches, brown with dirt and matted with blood. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z She parts her lips and our tongues tangle and retreat and tangle again. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Most people don’t know what to make of the bright orange tangled mess of sticky treats. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Muddy banks covered in tangled water plants lead to large rocks that increase in size until I begin to feel somewhat trapped. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z She crept up to the bag and found the scrawny, scruffy orange cat tangled in the soggy sack. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z François was surprised, too, when they shot out in a tangle from the disrupted nest and he divined the cause of the trouble. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z His hand tangled in something solid—the copper wire. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z On the far side of the shack, Seth plunged through the tangled undergrowth back to the path, glancing over his shoulder all the way. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The hair stood up on the back of my neck as I vainly looked among the branches and into the tangled undergrowth all around. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z While I opened the bottles and sniffed them, she’d try to run her long metal comb through my hair, cursing out of the corner of her mouth because it was so tangled. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Granny’s customers often had to spend half an hour unsnarling the rust-red yarn from the mud-brown, or trying to fish out the end of a thread from a tangled wad. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I felt excited, but a little panicked, too, as I sped down the creek, squinting into the icy spray and scanning the thick tangle of brown brush and newly budding trees along the narrow shoreline. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Descartes gets himself into a bit of a tangle here. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Her long auburn hair was dull and tangled. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z When he walked into the Annandale house, he had a scruffy beard, his hair was long and tangled, and he’d shed thirty pounds from his already lean frame. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The man punches Mark and Mark punches back, barely feeling where he’s been hit.Then they’re in a tangle, squirming, arms flailing, kicking. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z A tangle of old homes and shacks clustered around small stores and buildings that had seen better days. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Now the big wave a long time kept him under, helpless to surface, held by tons of water, tangled, too, by the seacloak of Kalypso. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They trotted quickly through the tangle of the undergrowth. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z As a rule, young men wore it long on one side, in an equine mane, but cropped the other side short, which prevented it from getting tangled in their bow strings. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She stared at the word, and watched as letters uncurled from the tangle of haze, mouthing each one as they appeared. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Beyond its battered frame the black-barked trees grew straight to the heavens, disdaining the forest floor, where tangled heather and brush hid the path leading from this lonely spot. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z ‘That’s where we appeared. Almost fell to our deaths, but luckily I’ve got nimble hooves. You were unconscious, hanging in your harness like a tangled paratrooper until we managed to get you down.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Doreah washed her hair and combed it out, working loose the mats and tangles. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Did you ever find yourself, without admitting it, tangled up with your best friend? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z There her fingers tangled in the long wisps of Granny’s hair. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Matt howled in protest as Thomas poured water over his tangled mop of hair. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The skin of her hands was deeply cracked, and her hair was tangled, but her face had a healthy pink glow, and her eyes were clear and bright. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Then me and Howard headed off toward the road, peering into tangled shrubs and squinting into the dark woods along the way. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z I can feel that my hair is a big tangle. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Aunty Uju laughed and patted the silky hair extensions that fell to her shoulders: Chinese weave-on, the latest version, shiny and straight as straight could be; it never tangled. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z She suddenly feels silly and stupid, alone in her tent with a pile of tangled ribbon and an old hat. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z A lot of them are tangled in the tall grass. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He felt himself falling, and then he was caught in a tangle of bodies. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Felt a flush of triumph as he kicked the last tangling wires off his legs. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z They were coming to a thicket of juniper and dog roses, tangled at ground level with nettles and trails of bryony on which the berries were now beginning to ripen and turn red. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I brought myself back up out of the Heart of Stone and felt a tangle of anticipation and fear at everything that had just happened. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The hill jutted above the dense tangle of forest, rising solitary and sudden, its windswept heights visible from miles off. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, I couldn’t see Godzilla’s eyes because they were hidden beneath thick tangles of black Newfoundland hair. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z My life was a tangled mass of lies and half-truths. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z My feet tangle in my skirts and I fall, the shambler following. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Don’t tangle up this web any more than it already is. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Hodor walked with one eye frozen shut, his thick brown beard a tangle of hoarfrost, icicles drooping from the ends of his bushy mustache. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I rallied my strength and pulled my right foot over the hump, away from Megan, so both of my feet could be tangled up around Annie’s. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He spent long periods bushwhacking over tangled mountains or following the wrong path when the trail forked. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z It’s Helene, and she is covered in blood and scratches, her silver hair tangled as she gazes at me with empty eyes. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z She doesn’t speak as I take a comb to my hair, raking through the tangles. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Flushed pink and tangled in a web of towels, she's dressed in a bathing gown and doesn't look like the Imperial Princess, heir to the House of Orléans. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I broke through a tangle of bodies and searched for Grigori. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The ropes were slapping the mast and the boom was tangled in the stanchion ropes. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z They followed the woman through a different tangle of tunnels, going down until they came to an underground pool that was fed by a spring. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Abby nods, grinning up at Martin, who does a pirouette and immediately gets tangled in his nightgown. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Especially with Faith lying beside me in that bed, lost in a tangle of long dark hair. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Is there no path that will lead me from this dark tangle? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “You would forget to hang on to your tails, and you’d get them tangled in my spokes.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z A ragged tunic concealed the half-healed scars on his back, but his boots were scattered amidst the rushes, and his breeches tangled about his feet. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Kicking off the tangled covers, Seth hurried over to the dresser. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z A charred, sugary stench tangled with Dad’s chili. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z He shifted from one foot to another, rubbing the tangle of raw meat that was his hands. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Once familiar oaks and alders appeared strange to Taran; their dead leaves clung to the tangled branches and the black trunks jutted like charred bones. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Every year he brought home a new batch of plants to try out in the yard; by August, the front walk had vanished beneath a tangle of green. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z She rolled away from the tangle and scrambled to her feet. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Once I would have kept her as a salt wife in truth, he thought to himself as he slid his fingers through her tangled hair. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It was dirty and tangled and she would be glad to free herself of it, Claire thought. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z There were people who had trances, I had surely heard of them, and they followed strange laws of which we could know nothing, they obeyed the tangled orders of their own sub-conscious minds. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The goatman pitched the bucket of stew into a tangled patch of thorns and bounded over a fallen log. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z He stared down at them like they were a tangle of rattlesnakes. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I was so tangled in my thoughts that I missed that the service had ended. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Looking down, I could see the broken tangled mass of the top. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad stayed on the steps but tangled both his hands in his dark hair. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “Messy. They are tangled as a jungle of vines, layered like the sediment in a canyon. We must weave through the vines, trace the sediment. We must translate and decipher.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z And Arya ... he missed her even more than Robb, skinny little thing that she was, all scraped knees and tangled hair and tom clothes, so fierce and willful. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He drew Hazel’s sword and used it to pry up some cobblestones, unearthing a big tangle of spiky roots. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z But it turns on a very simple fact, the same fact that runs through the tangled history of Harlan and the Michigan students. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Immured in these tangles, at perhaps their most difficult moment, Ralph turned with shining eyes to the others. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The next morning we woke up in a heap, tangled together every which way. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z But my feelings for Momma didn’t work like a light switch; they were all tangled, one on top of the other. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z But the Specters had found their target, too, and they pressed in through the snagging tangle of bush and briar and root and branch, meeting no more resistance than smoke. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Now, before them, brilliant flocks of wading birds picked their way among tangled mangroves. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The tangled brush and thick trees were knotted together into an impassable wall on either side. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “She got tangled in her harness and fell on it, broke some of its legs. Then it came after me, got on me, crawling all over.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The arm of a shirt-sleeve on the line flapped into Dad’s face and got tangled around his neck. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Early one misty Saturday morning, he and Harry worked their way through a dripping tangle of cottonwoods and alders lining the Dungeness, evading the game warden who regularly patrolled the river during salmon- spawning season. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Eventually we came to an old iron fence covered with a tangle of weeds and shrubs. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z She reached out and touched Tally’s hair, tangled and knotted from two weeks of camping out and riding all day. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Its coat was rough and thick as an Airedale’s fur and its mane was long and tangled. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z At the advice of one of the bystanders, the tangle was finally straightened out by Mr. Popper’s walking around the tripod three times in the opposite direction. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z She insisted that they focus their energies on raising a little girl who was, by nature, a tangle of mischief and motion and curiosity. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The bee, who had tangled himself in some bunting, toppled to the ground, knocking Milo over on top of him, and lay there shouting, “Help! Help! There’s a little boy on me.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z My thoughts and emotions tangle—longing and confusion and uncertainty, but beneath the chaos in my mind, the tender reeds of hope take root and grow inside me. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z After I brushed my teeth, I worked to straighten out the tangled chaos that was my hair. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Alex was standing in a metal passageway leading to a tangle of pipes and cylinders, like the boiler room of a ship. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The rainbow mural of faces and suns painted on the other side of the building was visible just beyond the tangled web of yellow police tape blocking off the wreckage. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z For someone who would eventually become so completely tangled in a web of espionage intrigue, Bentley entered her adult years alone, a solitary figure looking for companionship and community. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It was hard to see the E at first, because it was surrounded by such a tangle of other lines, and because she was expecting it to be an E drawn with straight strokes. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z From that moment on things became tangled for me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Vines tangled their legs and briars jabbed their arms. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z His right hand, tangled in a clean white cloth, made a slow fist. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And once, during a supper meal, I saw tears come slowly from his eyes and disappear into the tangle of the dark beard. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z On their way to the ice cream parlor, Katie fell back from the tangle of kids and slipped her arm through Naomi’s. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Asha tried to slip to her right, but her feet were tangled in some roots, trapping her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z After we'd learned to put them together so the heart wasn't tangled in the intestines and the lungs didn't face the spine, Mundín commenced grumbling. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Jam froze with her hands tangled in a towel, her heartbeat spiking to a blur. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z We were pretty well camouflaged in the riverbank scrub—a tangle of willow and alder and poplar full of mistletoe. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z She tried to crawl into the narrow crowded closet to nail it down but her voluminous nightgown got her tangled up. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s taken the cap off his head, for once, and combed through the tangles in his hair. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “That’s better,” said the tench, now out of sight in the murky dive water, and the Wart backed himself out of his tangle with infinite trouble, by wriggling his arm fins. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Tally turned, managed to get a foot tangled on a shingle, and teetered again. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Although her parachute had tangled in a fir tree as it came down, she had managed to cut herself free and made it to the ground. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Eventually they covered her and all he could see was a mound of tangled tulips bent low over her body, which was kicking to the last. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d like me pregnant though, over and done with and out of the way, no more humiliating sweaty tangles, no more flesh triangles under her starry canopy of silver flowers. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon we were lying in the sand, her salt-thick, tangled hair through my fingers. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Through the filthy tangle of dark hair, I recognize Sana. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z And when she tried to pull herself from the tangle of rotting limbs, she’d been dragged down into a pile twenty bodies deep. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The grindylow bared its green teeth and then buried itself in a tangle of weeds in a corner. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Someone had been hit, and the scream was of pain this time, and Will looked down to see a tangle of writhing bodies covered in plaster and dust and blood. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Kaede and the Huntsman passed through a forest of giant trees, their trunks black with age, the sun obscured by thick, tangled vines. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The first line had been transformed into a confusion of separate struggles, The three tangled ships loomed ahead, turning, their decks a red chaos as men hacked at each other with sword and axe. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Ash laughed, for her stepmother’s demands were insignificant in comparison to the enchantment she had tangled herself in. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “But she’s tangled up in metal. This is going to take a while. Put a splint on that girl. Take her and her family to the hospital. See if any of them can speak English.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Joaquin tried not to feel the carpet on his back, the way his hair tangled against it as he writhed on the floor, howling for something, for someone, that was always just out of reach. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “You’re the one who gets hunches,” said Ear sullenly, “/wasn’t the one who tangled with the Blue Monkey.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I swam in for a closer look at the tangled creature. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Gerrick’s daughters shared her same flame-red hair, though hers had been a tangle of curls and theirs hung long and straight. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I draw twins with black hair all tangled together who have only just realized they look exactly the same. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z They tumble forth, competing for precedence and sometimes coming out so tangled I have to back up and pick up a different thread. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z No zinc tub, no buckets of stove-heated water, no flaky, stiff, grayish towels washed in a kitchen sink, dried in a dusty backyard, no tangled black puffs of rough wool to comb. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt as if I were tangled like a small fly in the web of a cunning spider. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z The little head, long hair tangled, turned restlessly. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Horse and rider crashed to the ground in a tangle on top of the singer. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Nailer started squeezing around his tangled bundle of copper. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z His jacket and shirt hang open, his cravat is a loose tangle, and his sailor pants are worn at the knees. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Chunks of ice had formed about the tangles in his hair, and clicked together softly when he moved. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Despite the cloudless sky, the old trees ahead cast deep, dark, cool shadows, and it was a few seconds before Harry’s eyes discerned the building half-hidden amongst the tangle of trunks. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The remnants of the day’s light tangle in the sky. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She was on her hands and knees, head bent, her hair a wet and tangled mess covering her face. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “I’d like to tattoo it on my butt for him to read,” said Chacho, going back to the tangle of plastic strips on his table. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I stood looking after him, a giant tangle of feelings inside me. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “They will find out what it is to run a comb through tangled hair,’” Elsa quoted Trujillo’s reaction to the young rebels’ capture. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She and her friends often got into gossipy tangles, and she was always in a cool clique. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z He left the basket, the rigging, and the gasbag where they lay, tangled and twisted among the branches. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He pushed noisily through the tangle of ivy, disturbing one of the graveyard’s many foxes, which sprinted off into the undergrowth. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z This tangle is reflected in the modern philosophical discussion of laws of nature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Kate’s rope lay in a tangle on the sand, and Mr. Curtain was running with surprising swiftness back the way they’d come. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z By the open closet door was a great pile of coats and boots and bags and boxes, their contents all spilled out and tangled up. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She had round cheeks and wide brown eyes and dark hair that curled in a rich tangle around her shoulders. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z It was an awful tangled mess, but after chopping some braces away there was room for him to wiggle through and get inside. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z He got up and headed out of the cabin and down to a cluster of trees whose thick branches touched and tangled together to make a dense overhang. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z My mom always said I have a gift for getting stuff tangled up. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The light here was broken and muted, and the shadows were thick, tangled, confusing. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I squeezed my eyes shut, sending the tangled nightmares back to the corners of my mind, then opened them to continue to examine my surroundings. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Sahil and I both went to get it, and as I reached over, his legs got tangled in the long dress I was holding. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “I don’t know, Zola. Peoples find ways, they find things, interests, you will find ...” I am all tangled up with the words. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z A short, fat one with a tangled white beard pointed up into the tree with an ax. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Scrub grass and thorny bushes covered its lower slopes; higher up a jagged tangle of bare rock thrust steep and sudden into the sky. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Neither Mr. Flux nor the beast saw the fresh trap, and the creature’s legs tangled, snagged by the line. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z In the afternoon heat they snooze in the dusty dirt beneath that tangle of manzanita trees. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z It looked as though he had abandoned the use of axle grease, but he had certainly attempted to comb his hair — Harry could see the comb’s broken teeth tangled in it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Her hair hung like a clump of discolored marsh weeds, bound with vines and ornamented with bejeweled pins that seemed about to lose themselves in the hopeless tangle. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z “Ah, he knows better than to tangle with me.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z She envisioned her former master tangled in linens, purple tongue poking from his lips. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z My tabs hang off the cart like a tangle of roots as it rolls away. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Below us, crickets chirped in the tangled weeds under the porch. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z I struggled to free myself from the tangle of sheets. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I crouched down, trying to see through the tangled mass of leaves and branches. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In the Confederates’ attempt to rush across the bridges, the wagons become tangled. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z As time passes and passes, I begin to see a man and a woman take shape—two bodies tangled up like branches. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Maya carefully pushed her fingers through Grace’s hair, easing out some of the tangles. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z People were stepping on her as they lay tangled on the bricks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Army was all tangled up trying to hold off the Confederates down south. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He saw again: a bloody tangle, men fighting hand to hand. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There were so many competitors following him that their gear often got tangled together. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z It had gotten tangled, and there were sticky burrs in it from the prairie. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z On top of the more or less social tangle in which he found himself, there was a personal puzzle—for he put a higher value cm chastity than is fashionable in our century. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Mo was kneeling down so his head couldn't be seen above the tangled branches. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The clearing narrowed, but there were none of the tangled bushes here, it was possible to walk upright. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z On their left was at. impenetrable tangle of creepers and trees. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Former colonists staggered back to Waltha after years in the bush, and Maria listened to their tales of tangled jungles and swarming insects. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They lay in a silent, shocked heap on the floor, arms and legs so tangled Dimple had no idea whose limbs were whose. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The ground began to slope downwards very slightly now, and although the clearings were much wider, the foliage got more tangled, in some places there were nettles and clinging ivy, as high as their knees. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Like the mass of cables drooping behind a desk, the conceptual connections from one sentence to another have a tendency to get gnarled up in a big, snaggly tangle. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z When she saw the flowers she threw her bad hands up and got them tangled in her hair. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Her feet tangled, and she grabbed the arm of a rocking chair so she wouldn’t fall down the stairs. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z A fly that had been crawling along Wilbur’s trough had flown up and blundered into the lower part of Charlotte’s web and was tangled in the sticky threads. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Down by the riverwalk, the willow leaves tangled in the fitful wind. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Will jumped to his feet, and his sneakers got tangled under him for a long second, but he made a swift, semi-graceful recovery and stood upright. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z “I'm glad of that,” Dicey said, reaching to pat his tangled hair. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Aphrodites children were running around straightening everybody’s armor and offering to comb the tangles out of our horsehair plumes. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z He’d been found tangled in his net, dead, out in White Sand Bay. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Isobel pushes the tangled path of the cards on the table around a bit. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Streaks of dirt ran along the walls; here and there lay tangles of dust and garbage. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z I race home, hoping no one notices the bawling brown girl with a tangled mess of wet hair. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z That head: Bald for most of its surface, trimmed at bottom with a tangled white beard, it resembled an ivory Christmas ball resting on a bed of excelsior. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Now when the door opens, a stuffy stale smell comes out and I see her in her bathrobe, her hair tangled like seaweed. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z My hair hung below my hips in an unwashed mass of tangles, matted with twigs and leaves and mud. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z They landed like a pile of tangled sheets on the bed. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z She climbed over my tangled legs to get to the rear seat, grabbing my shirt collar and giving it a hard tug. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The guards had been targeting Zoe, and before they could figure out that the kid with the pipes was the bigger problem, the wooden planks at their feet sprouted new branches and tangled their legs. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z High John danced between the iron monsters, tangling them up as they lunged at him and leaving them twisted in rusty knots, juicy targets for my hooks and uppercuts. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z From the doorway, Jemmy watched Hold-Your- Nose Billy vanish into the tangled maze of tree limbs and brambles. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Since starting college, he shows off even more with tangled words. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I tucked in my filthy blouse and tied my faja around my waist and ran my fingers through my tangle of hair. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Sharp branches cut Amari’s face as she plunged through a thick tangle of trees. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z In the end his father would admit that she was, and his mother would cry and cry, in a bed surrounded by a tangle of clothes, her eyes puffing up like bullfrogs. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Stanley couldn't see his feet, which made it difficult to walk through the tangled patches of weeds and vines. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Seth lay in a contorted position, hair wildly disheveled, mouth open, legs tangled in his covers. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z An impenetrable, tangled mass swept toward Magdalys, flushed around her, and nearly toppled her as she stumbled along with them and out into the muggy Manhattan night. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z My mind usually wanders and gets lost in a tangle of worries. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Tally looked around, realizing that she was up on the cliffs, tangled in her sleeping bag. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z That was the dangerous thing about dreams—how quickly you became tangled in it all. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Her normally smooth blond hair was a matted tangle. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z It was only a centimeter in diameter, but still, it had to be better than a tangle of copper dangling from a failing duct. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z She put her fingers up to her face, felt the wide nose and thin bps, the too-high forehead and tangled mass of frizzy hair. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Booth’s right spur tangles in the folds of the cloth. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z What makes it feel small is the web of connections, the way people’s stories tangle together. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The one with the tangled white beard said, “Maybe we could chop the fungus out.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z He thought of Arya, her hair as tangled as a bird’s nest. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The snails liked to burrow deep beneath the tangled tree roots. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Strands of her hair caught in his fingers, tangling them up. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “Hit were jest a dream. You all tangled up in yore mind. Go to sleep now.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Victor and Gino slid for the same ball near our sideline and got tangled up. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z His eyes roved over my stained shirt and probably tangled hair. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z “Well, I’m stayin’,” said Hagrid, fat tears still leaking out of the corners of his eyes and trickling down into his tangled beard. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z His hands and feet threshed in the tangle of the wild grapevine, and he whimpered and gibbered as he tried to get up. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hair was tangled and her face was green from the helicopter ride. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z He becomes tangled in them and falls, then he stands up again. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hair was a tangle of brown and red and gold, autumn colors, with vines and twigs and withered flowers woven through it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Carter collapsed on Croteau and both of them fell in a tangle of bodies. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The old metal gates hanging off the hinges were gone, and the headstones were barely visible through the thick tangles of weeds that had claimed the plot. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Her hair is a tangled pouf at the back of her head. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z In the center of the room is a tree in a giant water tank, lifted high above the floor so I can see the tangle of roots beneath it, strangely human, like nerves. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Soon she would have only a tangle of kindling on her arm. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I sat up on my cot, ran a hand through my damp, tangled hair, felt bruises all over my arms in the shape of small footprints. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In a jiffy the two boats were in a terrible tangle. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z Chubs’s face crossed back into my line of sight, one eyebrow arched at my tangle of limbs. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I’d heat up the metal comb and run it again and again through my tangles. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It’s a tangle of brown sheets, one lone swirl of a Mexican blanket, a sad flat pillow in a faded pillowcase. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z They were white cobras tangled among themselves, like the hair of Medusa. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The girl had tangled blond hair and was wearing flannel pajamas. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “You gotta get right up on the vine to find the pods,” Grandma said, reaching into the tangle of green. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I’d brush the tangles from my hair and clumsily apply makeup. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z There was no more overgrown stubble and no dry, tangled ’fro. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Eddard Stark jerked upright, his heart racing, the blankets tangled around him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They slept uneasily during the middle of the day, in some hollow of the land, or hidden under the tangled thorn-bushes that grew in thickets in many places. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I tangled my fingers in his hair and raised my mouth to meet his. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z She’d look out into the garden as if that dark tangle of vegetation were the new life or question before her. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Jenny Flick appeared at the forest’s edge, her hair still tangled from sleep, and she slipped the helmet over her head and climbed on. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z They looked as though they were the scribbles of a crazy person—a tangle of loops and smudges and words that meant nothing. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The Scare Crow backed away from Finn, vanishing into the tangle of bodies like an eel retreats into a bed of river weed. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The bald, squat one was fighting through a tangle of brambles. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Her long blond hair was a tangled mess, and her blue eyes looked wild. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I try to get to my feet, further tangling myself in the bushes. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I look down at the tangle of bars beneath me and beyond them, the ground, and laugh. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z From wrecks far out on Sow and Pigs Reef, in currents that crossed and tangled to suck the drowning sailors under and spin the surfboats like tops. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z The rest of the Farewell Address was then devoted to foreign policy, calling for strict American neutrality and diplomatic independence from the tangled affairs of Europe. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The ropes that the Cloud-Men had been using for lowering the rainbow got tangled up with the silk strings that went up from the peach to the seagulls! James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z She shook tangled dark curls off her collar; her hair was barely short enough to count as regulation, and too short to put up. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Harry could see a clearing ahead, through the tangled branches of an ancient oak. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z The woman was tall and muscular, with long, tangled hair pulled back roughly and tied with a thong at the back of her neck. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I remembered how Carmen’s mom had come into the room and laughed, watching us in a tangled peacoat covered in fresh floribundas and water. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I use the oars to turn the skiff around so I can stand in the bow, which makes it easier to throw and not get tangled up in the rope. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Harry leaned forward to see Hagrid, who was ruby-red in the face and staring down at his enormous hands, his wide grin hidden in the tangle of his black beard. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z My mother would look at my wild tangles and scold me: “Aii-ya, Ying-ying, you are like the lady ghosts at the bottom of the lake.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Some were carefully constructed scenes; one or two had attempted something artistic: a silhouette of a girl backlit by an enormous movie screen; a close-up of a tangled telephone cord wrapped around a receiver. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z And yet the tangled story of slavery, sugar, and freedom still had one extremely dark twist to come, in the United States. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z She bolted, heading to my right toward a tangle of sunberry bushes. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Ekon watched the writhing bodies of six black mambas tangle in their basket, each one of their eyes locked on him in waiting. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She came to a tangle of fallen branches that blocked her way, and in order to continue she had to leave the path to pick her away around them. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Fleur, Harry noticed, was merely playing with her food; she glanced at the window every few minutes; however, Bill returned before they had finished their first course, his long hair tangled by the wind. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z She likes the way he looks at her when their limbs are still tangled together, out of breath as if he’d been chasing her, his expression anxious before relaxing into a smile. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Then she bounded away through the thickly tangled underbrush without stirring a leaf, without snapping a twig, and vanished into the green. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Jack himself shrank at this cry with a hiss of indrawn breath, and for a minute became less a hunter than a furtive thing, ape-like among the tangle of trees. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z A wee little voice called out from inside the labyrinth of roots, a tangle that had, Stella now saw, a hidey-hole in its center. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z They slept the rest of that night under a tangle of branches that might have been left by a storm. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Five yards from where I fell, I crawl through a tangle of plants into a pond. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I cracked an eye to discover a little humanoid figure trying to hide inside my shoe, but it had gotten tangled in the laces. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z My sentences tangled and twisted together, every word I said had my father looking more startled and more confused, until finally I just pulled the list from my drawer and shoved it into his hands. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The little girl standing a few yards from them had dark, sunken eyes, a tangle of uncombed black hair framing her gaunt face. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z In the tangle of balled-up socks and dust and ratty magazines sat the Converse shoe box—the glimmer of red star on the lid, the march of thick blue letters along the side. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z They're slow and ungainly, tripping over their own feet, tangling in the dense underbrush, dragging themselves along the ground when they can't find their footing. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Her short brown hair was tangled, her dress so torn it was barely decent. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He just kept getting tangled in Alex’s legs and then veering off to sniff around benches and dig inside trash barrels. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z She was wilder and stranger than ever, her hair long and tangled, her clothes in rags. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z A maid stood behind her, brushing out the night's tangles, but when Catelyn entered, her sister rose to her feet, smiling. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z But when I sit on the chair at the foot of his bed, looking at his white face through the tangle of gleaming plastic tubes and IV lines, I am dry-eyed. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She dragged the best dress onto Lyra’s skinny frame, tugged it straight, fished a bit of red ribbon out of the tangle in a drawer, and brushed Lyra’s hair with a coarse brush. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Together they moved through the tangled brush, pushing through the thorny bushes that grabbed at their clothes. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z |
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