| 单词 | ravel |
| 例句 | Her hair was black yarn that had been knit and raveled, so that it was curly. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Olakunde narrates always with looks of the greatest solemnity, but raveled deep in his demeanor is his joy in telling these tales, and to an audience so delighted with his testimony. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z People stopped to watch as he sang: “There once was a ravel named Kvothe Whose tongue was quick at quipping. The masters thought him clever And rewarded him with whipping. ” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z To the south, the flowers give way to a patch of raveled gherkins. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z But now, even though the cold already bit in the mornings, she wore only her one earth-colored dress with the raveled hem. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z He dropped his gaze to the gunnysack and began to fiddle with the raveled edge. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z There was a yarn snowman that Courtney had made when a Brownie, it was gray now, and beginning to ravel. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z Some looked at him as they passed, at the man sitting quietly behind the wheel of a small car, with his invisible life ravelled out about him like a wornout sock, and went on. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Ambassador Rahel, unable to cope with seesawing changes in her life, had raveled herself like a sausage into the dirty airport curtain, and wouldn’t unravel. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “They are fine for rote learning, but the study of naming requires a level of dedication that ravel such as yourself rarely possess.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He’s got on his moccasins, old ones he wears around the house, with holes worn under the big toes, and his V-neck maroon sweater with the ravels coming off the elbows. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z So somehow, Grace, Sacha and Robert end up accompanying Art and Charlotte to Norfolk, and all of their stories unravel and ravel at once. Review | Ali Smith’s ‘Summer’ concludes her seasonal quartet on a high note 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z His simplicity is intact; the threads of his brown cloak haven’t been ravelled. Looking for St. Francis 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z And four hours still doesn’t cover the whole tale, which spans 25 years and was really a skein of short stories raveled around the title character, Olive. Frances McDormand Stars in ‘Olive Kitteridge’ on HBO 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z And I’d like there to be, within those three attempts, a story that ravels and unravels and is a piece of Nadia’s heart, something vital to her. Emilio Fraia on Stories Within Stories 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z So begins “The Book of Unknown Americans,” a quiet, unassuming novel that ravels slowly, quickens without warning, spins into high drama and leaves you in thrall to its vivid characters and its author’s sure hand. ‘The Book of Unknown Americans,’ by Cristina Henríquez The machinations fester and ravel in a plot-driven film that, for all its references to detergents, never lapses into soap opera. The Past: After the Oscar-Winning A Separation Comes the Divorce 2013-05-17T19:50:10Z In early August, in a reactionary attempt to ravel it back up again, the Republicans held their convention in Miami and nominated Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew. A Great Writer at the 1968 Democratic Disaster 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z There are those Korean dishes that challenge you to combat and those that knit up the raveled sleeve of care. Critic’s Notebook: Pete Wells Explores Korean Restaurants in Queens 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z “Hence, ravel; a tool that does the fiddly nesting together of details and summary tags for you.” These "CSS crimes" turn social media posts into games 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z First, dreams knit up the ravelled sleeve of care by allowing us to process unhappy or traumatic experiences. Why We Sleep, and Why We Often Can’t 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Like our friend sleep, soup knits up the raveled sleeve of care; like a favorite sweater, soup warms and reassures. Super-simple, really good roasted butternut squash soup 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z It is not by ravelling that you will best appreciate its tissue or design. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z Before the hot soup comes rushing, the second-helper has to "ravel her out." Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker 2012-02-21T03:00:18.360Z He prated of tying together the ravelled strands of the confederacy. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z Out there I see grey breakers rise, Their ravelled beards are white, And foam is in their eyes. Irradiations; Sand and Spray 2012-02-14T03:00:28.347Z These ideas, out at the elbows, out at the knees, buttons off, somewhat raveled, will, after all, do very well for paupers. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:58.623Z Penelope still ravels, weaves, and waits; Ulysses' bow is bent, and through the level rings the eager arrow flies. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z The chemist, with crucible and retort, with countless experiments, is trying to find the qualities of substances—to ravel what nature has woven. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z The cape was large and sometimes handsomely fringed with a ravelled piece of cloth of a different color from that of the hunting shirt itself. The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 2012-02-04T03:00:17.917Z "Oh, yes—do stop to dinner," suddenly pleaded the child, smoothing her wild ravels of curls after having drawn off her hat. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z Fourth—That there is an all-powerful God who made the universe, and that there is also a nearly all-powerful devil, and this devil ravels about as fast as this God knits. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:58.623Z Still does he cast yearning glances at the sky, "And at every wandering cloud that trailed Its ravelled fleeces by." Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z It is the panacea or cure of all earthly ills, like sleep in the play it knits up the ravelled sleeve of care. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z For who shall explain the mysterious ravellings of the dim unfathomable East? The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z Thus matters were likely to become ravelled at the Grange. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z Because oak splits lengthwise, and birch does not split, but ravels out. Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales 2011-11-17T03:00:35.327Z A thin satin frays and ravels, and is not worth making up. The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book 2011-11-13T03:00:12.183Z Remember what I say"—the whisper seemed to break and ravel down under the intense strain put on it to a single quivering strand—"remember—you will understand it when you are older. Diana Tempest, Volume I (of 3) 2011-11-12T03:00:36.223Z The skirts and sleeves had shrunk much in dyeing, and the pieces that composed the bodies had been ravelled, frayed, and pulled so crooked in dressing, that they had lost nearly all shape. Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners 2011-10-01T02:00:32.597Z The man with a ravelled cigar struck a match and lit the same for the eighteenth time. Taking Chances 2011-09-21T02:00:36.667Z Because, when oak and elm are steamed in a bath, they bend and do not break, while birch and linden ravel in every direction. Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales 2011-11-17T03:00:35.327Z Weary, no longer flying, Over the hissing spindrift, through the ravelled clutching sea; No longer over the tops of the waves spinning along north-eastward, In a great irregular wedge before the trade-wind far from land. Some Imagist Poets, 1916 An Annual Anthology 2011-09-20T02:00:14.543Z Nancy’s explanation added still other tangles to the maze, and the two men wondered what would be the final ravelling of it all. Polly and Her Friends Abroad 2011-09-18T02:00:29.443Z She was knitting a stocking, which ravelled every night as fast as it grew by day. The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book 2011-09-09T02:01:11.180Z The feminine hunch," concluded the man with the ravelled cigar and the granulated eyelids, "is all right when you copper it, but it won't do to play it open. Taking Chances 2011-09-21T02:00:36.667Z Italy is so tender—like cooked macaroni—yards and yards of soft tenderness ravelled round everything. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z Gold braid on company coat and silk stockings done ravel out in dese days. The ghosts of their ancestors 2011-08-08T02:00:20.667Z Bits of new woolen fabrics, left from former garments, were ravelled, carded, mixed with cotton and spun and knitted into socks. The Women of the Confederacy 2011-08-05T02:00:53.333Z Each flower was centered with a bit of gold from a raveled Confederate epaulette. The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People 2011-07-17T02:00:38.770Z "No," said the two men in the seat near the strap-clutching man with the ravelled cigar. Taking Chances 2011-09-21T02:00:36.667Z Squire Longbow wore the same clouded-blue stockings that he did when first elected magistrate; but Mrs. Longbow had ravelled them up several times, and "footed them over." The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West 2011-07-12T02:00:33.027Z A more melancholy and affecting history than his is not readily to be conceived; and amid the ravelled skein of his ideas, the memory of his grievous wrongs stands clear and imperishable. The Student-Life of Germany 2011-07-03T02:00:09.143Z I raveled back and painstakingly re-knitted the heel, then I laid my knitting in my lap and gazed dreamily up the road, resting my eyes on the tender greenness of the fields. The Camp Fire Girls on the Open Road or, Glorify Work 2011-06-23T02:00:25.403Z Sleep knit up the ravelled fabric of his happiness, and memories of the new bliss he had tasted haunted his dreams. Between Sun and Sand A Tale of an African Desert 2011-06-15T02:00:16.390Z The jagged man took his ravelled cigar from his mouth and grinned broadly. Taking Chances 2011-09-21T02:00:36.667Z Jeannette found two bits of raveled rope, hanging from a nail. The Cinder Pond 2011-05-17T02:00:20.320Z Some ravellings of cotton had collected there unnoticed. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z "Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care," Mary would quote as she tucked her counterfeit self up in her warm bed preparatory to some midnight escapade. Back at School with the Tucker Twins 2011-05-14T02:00:10.887Z Then he began to play with them, pushing them about and shoving them gently with the ravelled ends of two short pieces of knotted rope. Ethel Morton and the Christmas Ship 2011-05-03T02:00:15.220Z "Certainly is queer what freaky ideas they get into their heads," went on the man with the ravelled cigar, ignoring the lack of encouragement extended to him. Taking Chances 2011-09-21T02:00:36.667Z “He will ravel out,” said the Sea Lady. The Sea Lady 2011-04-22T02:00:07.843Z And in the morning the guard found him asleep with a bit of ravelled rope about his arm. Joscelyn Cheshire A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas 2011-03-10T03:00:48.177Z It has been ravelling out, since last sunset, Rags hanging soft and low From sulky skies of jet. Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell 2011-03-10T03:00:44.993Z When you've made the cushion square, if you want it square, go around the three remaining sides and tie a break-water, so to speak, so that the weaving won't ravel out. Ethel Morton and the Christmas Ship 2011-05-03T02:00:15.220Z And because there was not enough of it, they calked them with the flax of the country, and with the mantles, which they raveled for that purpose. A Narrative of the expedition of Hernando de Soto into Florida published at Evora in 1557 2011-01-20T03:00:07.377Z Being a young man inclined to be honest with himself, Dwight Wade confessed that the fabric of his forgiveness had a selvage that already showed signs of ravelling. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z Turning upon their backs with the ravelled ends of the cords hidden close between them, they seemed asleep like their comrades when the watchman cast the light of his lantern through the flapping canvas door. Joscelyn Cheshire A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas 2011-03-10T03:00:48.177Z Most of the cases, ravelled out, led back to the saloon. Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy 2011-01-06T03:00:45.737Z Stockinet, like stockings, is a knitted, not a woven fabric, and as every stitch is drawn through the one below it, it is very necessary that the loops be caught before they ravel back. Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care 2011-01-06T03:00:45.093Z It ripped the Old Mother close at her waist-line, and raveled her out on the floor like a fluff of gray yarn. The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business 2011-01-04T03:01:00.723Z The Lady Clara de Mowbray, in her own proper person, has of late been but little seen in the twisted and ravelled skein of this history. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z In lieu of the social tangles ravelled out in the shows, you can see how the Great Author planned the miracle of life with the creatures of the woods. God's Green Country A Novel of Canadian Rural Life 2010-12-21T22:55:55.287Z It is possible, too, to ravel out the canvas in the bags, and use it for thread. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 On cloth that ravels badly put in two parallel rows of running stitches and then cut the buttonhole between the rows. Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care 2011-01-06T03:00:45.093Z They are even woven into the stuff on the back of the armchair, they appear almost effaced in the maroon-colored linoleum, and ravelled out and faded in the cretonne curtains.... Woman Mr. Urquhart was in sic a ravel after it that when he gies out the first line o’ the hunder and nineteenth psalm for singing, says he, ‘And so on to the end.’ The Little Minister Michael was glad, since he had foreseen the possibility of a complication raveled by Maurice. Sinister Street, vol. 2 Grandmother has raveled it out several times because I dropped stitches. Village Life in America 1852-1872 Including the period of the American Civil War as told in the diary of a school-girl The edges must be kept smooth, and unless the flannel ravels easily, the herringbone stitch should be not over one-eighth of an inch deep and close together. Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care 2011-01-06T03:00:45.093Z When there is an absence of binding material, which often occurs when the rock is too hard for the traffic to which it is subjected, the road soon loosens or ravels. The Future of Road-making in America It's tantalizing to be so close to it and yet with so many tangled ends left ravelled.” The Girl Aviators and the Phantom Airship It was made of three strands of heavy rope, braided, looped to form a handle, tied with a blue ribbon, and ravelled at the ends. The Master's Violin Often Betty would go to bed and stay awake, watching Victoria at the table, her fingers ravelling her hair, reading with an intentness that frightened her. A Bed of Roses The fiber is then made into bundles and sent to the mill to be spun, where it is first roughly sorted, the longest and best portions being separated from the short raveled ones. Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care 2011-01-06T03:00:45.093Z No matter how carefully adjusted the machinery built for this purpose may be, it is liable to ravel a road by loosening some of the stones. The Future of Road-making in America But solitude and her pillow ravelled all this work of charity. Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency She would pick every shred, ravelling, or speck from one's clothing. The Speech of Monkeys Travellers have likened it to an India shawl; to me it seemed to approach more nearly the wrong side of a Persian scarf, which shows the many-hued silken ravellings. Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu The tougher the stuff the more ravelled the edges of the tear, and the more difficult to join together. Lafcadio Hearn It could hardly be called a success—considered as a period of rest and refreshment; at least it did not “knit up the raveled sleeve of care” to any very great extent. Within Prison Walls being a narrative during a week of voluntary confinement in the state prison at Auburn, New York Curry, who as a soldier was insensible to fear, now shook in every joint, as he stood beside his horse in a state of confused and ravelled wonderment. Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency That lank, black figure with its ravel of grey locks escaping from under a black "wide-awake" was the Nikè that led on to Freedom. Shadows of Flames A Novel This paste be shaped into a roll or cord around a ravelling from his coat lining, which served as a sort of wick, coiled it closely, and laid it on the branch beside him. Harper's Round Table, June 18, 1895 Andrew Harben began to wonder where it would end and what he would do when he had no more pants to ravel. Where the Pavement Ends That does not sound like genius; one imagines genius as ravelling its hair, whatever ravelling may be, and producing the immortal Word to the accompaniment of epileptic fits; absinthe also goes with genius very well. A Novelist on Novels "But I don't believe Hugh's sleeve is very deeply ravelled, do you? and indeed, it is high time for him to be awake." Hildegarde's Harvest The days were murky with ravelled cloud held up in a network of pale sunshine. Shadows of Flames A Novel The cosmos is too raveled by change, too far gone. The Big Time It was plain enough by this time, you understand, that I was witnessing one of those obscure human tangles which ravel themselves in the depths of a penal society. Where the Pavement Ends Before that end much had she ravelled out From a discourse in figurative speech By some learned Indian On the soul’s journey. Seven Poems and a Fragment I stood awaiting them in a raveled, mud-smeared suit of pajamas which at their best had never been ostentatious. The Portal of Dreams It does seem a pity to have the edges ravel. McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 4, August 1908 Perhaps the ravel of things would clear itself when they regained the commonplace world of the hotel. The Silent Barrier Carpet ravelings Carpet ravelings may be obtained from the carpet stores, or pieces of carpet can be raveled by the children. Hand-Loom Weaving A Manual for School and Home With that matchless gift which old Yankee housewives call faculty, Mary kept together all the ends of her ravelled skein of life, and began to make them wind smoothly. The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings Oh, of course it doesn't," answered Brian; "but if you're ever going to get at the explanation of a thing like that, you must begin at the beginning, and ravel it out bit by bit. Under Padlock and Seal Rest that night on couches of spruce branches, that rocked like a cradle, and smelled like Araby the Blest, more than knit up the raveled sleeve of the hard day before. The Come Back Use fine spool wire or wire raveled from fly screen. Primary Handwork Stretch and pull through the hands until both edges are raveled. Hand-Loom Weaving A Manual for School and Home With lowered axe, with backward head, Late from this scene my labourer fled, And with a ravelled tale to tell, Returned. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) I was afraid to use violence for fear of breaking it, or ravelling it through. The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam "I'm only an ill-assorted snarl of threads ravelled out from my different ancestors." The Dominant Strain Those silken strands of raveled midnight wove Into a Cupid's mesh, a net of love! The Loom of Life Cut them three-fourths inch wide on account of the tendency to ravel. Hand-Loom Weaving A Manual for School and Home “I love you—I love you—” until at last sleep helped to knit up the ravelled sleave of care. Olive in Italy If any defective places appear, they are repaired and when the surface exhibits satisfactory stability, but before it begins to ravel, the bituminous surface is applied. American Rural Highways Now I'm going to sleep—sweet sleep that knits the ravelled sleeve of care—Shakespeare, old man, you had a phrase for everything! The Issahar Artifacts Perhaps they reveal the raveled sleeve, the anxieties of a straitened life and of narrow means. Testimony of the Sonnets as to the Authorship of the Shakespearean Plays and Poems As this peculiar tone of blue could not be obtained in carpet ravelings, an eighth of a yard of terry was raveled for the purpose. Hand-Loom Weaving A Manual for School and Home But last May she had noticed it had begun to ravel; see—she held it up to the light—that was a sure sign. Treasure Valley Usually there will be a few small areas of the surface that, on account of faulty construction, will ravel or become rutted much earlier than the remainder of the surface. American Rural Highways A Scout would turn it inside out and undo a little of the hem, and ravel out the edge. How Girls Can Help Their Country In the darkest of twilight, he went through the gate and down the path where a few daffodils stooped in the wind, and shattered crocuses made a pale, colourless ravel. The Rainbow A by-stander, who had very little faith in our hero, caught at the ravelling thus dropped. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 If you ravel a bit of cotton cloth, you will find that it is made up of tiny threads, some going up and down, and others going from right to left. Makers of Many Things "The practical application of my words is to sleep— 'That knits up the ravelled sleeve of care; Worn labour's bath; balm of hurt minds.'" Say and Seal, Volume I Tie a knot in each end, and ravel the ends of raffia to form a tassel. Construction Work for Rural and Elementary Schools Shakespeare writes of "Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care." What a Young Woman Ought to Know "Wan' a drink," mumbled Ward, with a blanket over his mouth and a raveled thread tickling his nose so that he squirmed. The Ranch at the Wolverine She blocks the breathing-hole with a plug made of the ravelled vegetable fibres of the Cow-dung, a stopper which is eminently permeable. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles The light of the setting sun that fell full upon his face paled the lasting of his cassock, shiny at the elbows, ravelled at the hem. Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life The stir and heat of Sim’s presence died quickly away; the house was without a sound; General Jackson lay like an effigy in ravelled black and buff wool. Mountain Blood A Novel To knit up that which is ravelled implies using the old material in repairing the damage, but that is not the way in which the body is rebuilt. What a Young Woman Ought to Know If sleep did not quite "knit up the ravelled sleeve of care" for her, Eleanor yet felt much less ragged when she came out of her slumber. The Old Helmet, Volume I Even Harlan noted that the ravelled edges of his linen had been carefully trimmed and the worn binding of the hat brim inked wherever necessary. At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern “To every coat of arms, the raveled sleeve of care,” observes Marmaduke sort of casual. Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe The gray purse of the oriole has begun to ravel at the edges and the haircloth cup of the chipping sparrow is already wind-distorted, but we shall find some housekeeping just begun. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year Every tress must be confess'd But neatly tangled at the best, Like a clew of golden thread, Most excellently ravelled. Tudor and Stuart Love Songs Corolla, numerous imbricated, spatulate petals with ravelled or fringed ends. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines The whole work, no smooth and neatly polished on the outside, had been turned the seamy side without, and the knots and flaws and ravelled threads had been exposed without pity. Vixen, Volume III. He saw the threads of him all ravelled up. Tongues of Conscience But it would be gathered rather in the joy of intellectual activity, realizing its own energy, and ravelling up to its own form the woof of other minds, than with any practical bearing on life. The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 All my trousers go to the tailor's every day, and are ravelled out at the heels every night. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 The natives do not distinguish between this specimen and the Trichosanthes, but it is to be noted that the corolla of the former is not ravelled or fringed. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines “Marry, the first were that he was like to have no wife, or she should have amended a corner of his rare slashed sleeve, that was ravelling forth o’ the stitching,” saith she. Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall You are all dressed up, and have got a clean shirt on, and your shoes blacked, and I notice your pants are not raveled out so at the bottoms of the legs behind. Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa 1883 She sighed over the cheap jackets, with silesia linings and raveled buttonholes, which nameless copyists tried to make attractive by the clean embroidered linen collars which they themselves laundered in wash-bowls in the evening. The Job An American Novel They ravel little, and can be steamed almost to their original freshness when they become worn. The Story of Silk Each will complete the other, and love knit up the ravelled strands again into a stronger unity. Robert Elsmere No matin bugle call of Reveille to rouse, nor plaintive note of Taps to "mend the ravelled sleeve of care." The Greater Love The first step is to tabulate just exactly what difficulties among our many difficulties must be ravelled out first—the capital difficulties, as it were. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 By his side nestled a tiny dog, with satin ears and paws fringed as with ravelled silk. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 They even begged sword knots, epaulettes, and galons that they might add more of the precious threads to the spool on which they wound the ravelled bullion, which they sold.” Quilts Their Story and How to Make Them Thy scorching breath fierce burns the crouching land And thou dost sweep along The raveled clouds. Lilith The Legend of the First Woman Sometimes I skirted them so closely that the current of air from my propeller raveled out fragments of shining vapor, which streamed into the clear spaces like wisps of filmy silk. High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France Clashing cylinders, whizzing wheels, Rend and ravel and tear and pick; What can resist these hooks of steel, Sharp as the claws of the ancient Nick? The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy This strong opinion of his renders the question exceedingly difficult and embarrassing, for it was become very clear that nothing but the intervention of the House of Lords could untie so ravelled a knot. The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3) Day after day she industriously wove, spending patient hours at her loom, but each night secretly ravelled out the product of her day’s labour. Quilts Their Story and How to Make Them Am I a fool now—I, who have held the strings of all Europe in my hand for thirty years, and loosed or ravelled them as suited the greatness of France? The Justice of the King “Silk ravellings?—what on earth do you mean?” Chicken Little Jane Asking his mother for a worn-out stocking, and procuring an old boot-top, he ravelled the stocking, winding the yarn into a ball of medium hardness. The Hoosier School-boy With such sedative queries, which were gradually diminishing from fabric to ravel, Raikes finally reached his room and, securely bolting the door, began to prepare to retire. The Flaw in the Sapphire And before new armies in hostile encounter on American soil shall unfurl new banners to the breeze, may every thread and thrum of their texture ravel and rot and resolve itself into dust! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 To see Myra with her thin brown face, her slicked-back black hair which showed white threads like ravellings, in her afternoon house-dress of gray percale, one would never have taken her for a bride. The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story About every third page revealed cloud-like fluffs of silk ravellings in all the colors of the rainbow. Chicken Little Jane Maurice shut the lime-kiln door, and crossed with her a grassy avenue to find among birches the ravelled ends of a path called the White Islander's Trail. The Indian On The Trail From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 She crossed the threads of a brook ravelling themselves from density. Marianson From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 When I pulled it out and wound it round the distaff, it looked like ravelled silk, it was so smooth and fine. Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel She leaned forward in a raveled chair, with her veil tucked up so that she could see him better, her gloved hands clasped tightly in her lap, her eyes intent. Sacrifice Their sides he attached as cross-bars to others, by means of strings ravelled from the canvas of the tapestries. The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette First came the heavenly morning walk and the opening of his study, then the short half-hour of labor, which ravelled off to delicious suspense. The Indian On The Trail From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 Plot, ye subtle statesmen,—a trace of melted wax; Bind, ye haughty prelates,—a thread of ravelled flax; Growing, growing, all the glory going. Lundy's Lane and Other Poems Of course "the System" fringes and ravels away, having no real outline. The Book of the Damned The cool of the night, Southern California's balm to aid sleep "knit up the raveled sleeve of care," chilled them. Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles Hark! the ravel line sweel, From the fast-whirring reel, With a music that gladdens the ear; And the thrill of delight, In that glorious fight, To the heart of the angler is dear. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century I am living over the past and knitting up the ravelled ends. The Love Affairs of an Old Maid Press it with a hot iron, and then ravel it out. A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School “No; the web is too much ravelled to disentangle.” The Gorilla Hunters It was an awful sight, for there, mingled with riven spars and planks and cabin furniture, and entangled in ravelled cordage, lay the torn lifeless remains of the pirates. The Battery and the Boiler Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables Inexperienced and negligent observers see no difference in the operations of ravelling and unravelling: they never come close enough: they despise plain work. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Mark all notches with basting thread, tailor's chalk, or notch the goods if it does not ravel. Textiles and Clothing It is difficult to discover which are all linen; but the best way, is, to find a lot, presumed to be good, take a sample, wash it, and ravel it. A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School Poor Felicia, a creature endowed with superior powers, was much like those sorceresses who weave and ravel the destinies of others without the power to accomplish anything for their own happiness. The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) For example, the typical robin's nest consists of straws and hairs plastered together with mud and lined with some soft material, but others have been found made entirely of raveled rope; others of carpet rags. Bird Day; How to prepare for it Cynthia had to cut the thread and ravel out a round. A Little Girl in Old Salem This should always be done directly after cutting, especially if the goods ravels easily, otherwise it will be impossible to work a neat buttonhole. Textiles and Clothing Impelled by a desire that was commanding as it was terrifying, moved by a hope that was only a shred of a raveled dream, Rhetta joined the moving tide that set toward Peden's door. Trail's End If the Scout has a rifle or pistol or gun, then he can make a fire by shooting powder into a bunch of tinder—raveled handkerchief or coat lining, or frazzled cedar bark. Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies Perhaps also in the following; wherewith we now hasten to knit-up this ravelled sleeve: ‘But there is no Religion?’ reiterates the Professor. Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Then, there were dancing Jacks, and jumping Jennys, and "Topsys," and "Uncle Toms" as black as the chimney back, with wool made of a raveled black stocking. Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends Overcasting is done by taking loose stitches over the raw edge of the cloth, to keep it from ravelling or fraying. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools We cannot count on raveled threads of age Whereof to weave a fabric. Custer, and Other Poems. The fabric of my faithful love No power shall dim or ravel Whilst I stay here,—but oh, my dear, If I should ever travel! Gigolo It's better than cutting up my pocket-handkerchief, for it only shortens it a little, and Mamma often cuts the ends a little when our sashes ravel. A Flat Iron for a Farthing or Some Passages in the Life of an only Son Its little wig was made from the fine ravellings of Serena's brown silk stockings. Young Lucretia and Other Stories I am returning this one, for maybe you will decide to ravel it out; if you don't, you can just make me a new one. The Tangled Threads Miss Shelby glanced around in a coldly indifferent way, holding up her broadcloth skirt that it might escape the ravellings and scraps scattered over the floor. Cicely and Other Stories The nervous equipment of an American would ravel out, if it were not for sound sleep. Golden Lads A valiant people harried to the void,— Their fruitful fields a burnt-out wilderness,— Their prosperous country ravelled into waste,— Their smiling land a vast red sepulchre,— —Thy work! Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers Taylor ventured upon the raveled platitude that clothes do not make the man. An Arkansas Planter They carry grass with them, which they ravel up and pad into their shoes. Adrift on an Ice-Pan A disreputable straw hat with a raveled brim was pulled down over her untidy honey-colored hair and she was rolling up the sleeves of a stained smock to bare round brown arms. Ralestone Luck And always I felt as though he were watching me out of the back of his ratty head, through the ravelled straw brim that sagged over his neck. Police!!! The race of Hohenzollern has wilted and ravelled out to this. Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers As Miss Massey and the little girls walked on, Suzanna stopped and pulled the ribbon over the protruding toe, tucking in the ravelled edges. Suzanna Stirs the Fire I ask nothing but that you should forgive yourself, and knit up the ravelled web of your life. A Crooked Path A Novel A series of logical deductions brought him to ravel step by step the game that was being played. The Delight Makers Like a wonderful winding skein,— The way he tangles them up together And ravels them out again! Behind the Arras A Book of the Unseen Soon the birds came back and, seizing some threads by the ends, raveled them out without difficulty. Ways of Wood Folk I felt that she would be the kind to leave ravellings in her wipes, and things like that. The Tin Soldier I stuffed it with lamb's wool, and sewed some green ravellings on its head for hair. Giles Corey, Yeoman A Play The Indians ravel it and use the weft. Navajo weavers Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-'82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 371-392. Knit and ravel out a quantity of yellow worsted or floss silk, and with it construct a nest in the center of the oval, putting a hen into the nest. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 No 1, Nov 1877 Cut the buttonhole and work; you will find that the work is easily done and the buttonhole will not ravel. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada Still, as the poet says, sir, it's sleep that 'knits up the ravelled sleeve of care,' sir. Destiny Young Edinburgh gentlemen who have been born with the silver spoon in their mouth will not understand what a ravelled hesp is. Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents He was watching eagerly as his new fishline of ravelled rope pulled taut in the stream. The Enchanted Canyon Care adds a nail to our coffin, 189. --, knits up the ravelled sleave of, 53. --is an enemy to life, 35. Familiar Quotations "For the House of Hapsburg totters; see, How raveled the thread of its destiny, Sheer hung between cloud and rock!" quoth he. Myth and Romance Being a Book of Verses Miss Baird ravels and unravels circumstantial evidence in her search for the murderer in a most bewildering and thoroughly feminine fashion.... The Passenger from Calais And so, said Rutherford, is it with the weaver and the web of life, when a man’s life-hesp is ravelled in the morning p. 99of his days. Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents She took the knitting-work and straightened it; raveled down, and picked up, and with nimble stitches restored the lost rows. The Other Girls Always provide some nesting material near at hand; linen or cotton thread, ravellings, tow, hair and excelsior are all good. Outdoor Sports and Games There was something in the unresentful, sad face, pale cheeks, and large eyes, that fascinated her; something about the tattered clothes, thin, wet locks of flaxen hair, and ravelled straw hat-brim, fantastic and pitiful. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 That's truth decidedly; though, at the same time, your nerves were certainly rather entangled, like a ravelled hank. Going to Maynooth Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three Horace said that in his day most men fled the empty cask; and all but two or three fled my poor friend’s ravelled hesp. Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents Look at the clean ravel in the end. The Other Girls I have tried to piece them together into a fairly substantial pattern; but, of course, it can be easily ripped out and raveled into nothing. The Primrose Ring She was a good deal raveled out, but there was plenty of fun in her yet, after all. St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 2, December, 1877 It is a common delusion with little men to believe that they are big with wisdom and knowledge, even after they have been ravelled to shreds by a man of real ability. Drake, Nelson and Napoleon My inward life is a ravelled hesp, and I need guidance and direction if I am ever to come out of this confusion and to come to any good. Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents Now a knot is tied on its end to hold what has been gotten, and keep it from ravelling out, for there's a desperately hard place coming in the weaving. Quiet Talks on John's Gospel A tall, gaunt woman in a ravelled worsted shawl answered his summons, and informed him, interrupted by a prolonged coughing, that Mr. Needles was away on circuit. The Three Black Pennys A Novel It was too late now to knit up again the ravelled threads of domestic concord. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) Like raveled threads whose branches separate and reunite, the series of reproductive cells permeate the successive generations of the human race. Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 She held between her lips some ravellings and bits of thread, and she was sitting by the open window, laboriously pushing her needle through a piece of heavy unbleached cloth. A Village Ophelia and Other Stories It reaches out most subtly to knit up again the ends that have ravelled out under the sore stress of life. Quiet Talks on John's Gospel "Alack, I am worn to a ravelling," said the Tailor of Gloucester, "but I have my twist!" The Tailor of Gloucester It fulfils its mission when it is ravelled and knitted, then unravelled. The Man Thou Gavest The remaining furniture was scant and old, and a ravelled square of threadbare carpet covered a patch of floor at the bedside. Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh And, as I was saying just now, everything declines; an idea ravels like a sleeve. Sister Teresa And see, on the back a fresh stitch was necessary to keep the ends from ravelling. Patty and Azalea Yet The man who thinks he can at any time extract himself from any feminine entanglement that he may choose to have raveled, is a simpleton. Hints for Lovers It is but a sorry task to rip the twisted ravel from the worn garment of life and to turn the grout in a drained cup. Reviews It was clear, however, that till sleep had knit up the ravelled nerves of the poor lady, no coherent conversation was possible. The Mating of Lydia "Ah!" he murmured, "if I could but teach her how to knit the ravelled sleeve of care." Westways They are broken off and splintered in the most astonishing way; all split and ravelled out like the end of a cane that has been broken and twisted to get the ends apart. Mr. Britling Sees It Through That is so sententious, Kenneth, that I shall have to take it home and ravel it out gradually in my mind in little shreds. Real Folks But, instead of completing this task as soon as possible, she ravelled by night the work done during the day, until the suitors discovered the trick. The Book of the Epic This sententiousness is consistent, on Mr. Channing's part, with the most stupefying ignorance of words and things, as in the sentence, "forced to conceal the raveled sleeve of care by buttoning up his outer garments." Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 High up, their leaves were green; but lower down, they were shriveled; and dyed of many colors; and tattered and torn with much rustling; as old banners again; sore raveled with much triumphing. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I I am here at work now for a fortnight to spin some single cord out of my thousand and one strands of every color and texture that lie raveled around me in old snarls. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I I feel sure that the retrospective discovery of a ravelling would somehow displease Georgiana as a feature of our courtship. Aftermath Why is it that pleasure excursions seem to ravel out? In the Footprints of the Padres He seated himself, and mopped his brow, and fanned himself with his broad straw hat, whose flapping brim was beginning to ravel about the edges. Scattergood Baines This is the voice of Him to whom the ravelled complexities of men's minds are simplicity itself; who dwells beyond the brief bewilderments and mistaken desirings and false ideals of men's hearts. The Threshold Grace "Sleep knits up the ravelled sleeve of care," or it should. Supreme Personality Yet, having known, life will not press so close, and always I shall feel time ravel thin about me; For once I stood In the white windy presence of eternity. Profiles from China Some ravel dreams to cats cradles in whose uninhabited solitude, slowly as a yawn, wish to pull forth the superstrings. Unmanned Fasten the ends with pins and ravel out for a tassel. The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do If you ravel out one end of the cloth, you can find the little threads of cotton which are woven together to make your frock. The Seven Little Sisters Who Live on the Round Ball That Floats in the Air But, since this parlous state was, in the main, physical, air and movement, along with the direct call on her attention, steadied the one and knit up the ravelled edges of the other. Deadham Hard Blind multitudes that jar confusedly At strife, earth's children, will ye never rest From toils made hateful here, and dawns distressed With ravelling self-engendered misery? Among the Millet and Other Poems If only it were possible to put on the play in a simple way and arrange the scenes to knit up the raveled interest, I should hope to play Hermione again. The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections The ends of the strings are raveled out so as to make a tassel. The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do "Why, Agricola," said the doctor, snipping the loose ravellings from his patient's bandages, "an old man like you should not have enemies." The Grandissimes Leaving, moreover, every subject on which its nimble tongue had lighted, damaged by that contact—at loose ends, frayed and ravelled, its inwove pattern just slightly discoloured and defaced. Deadham Hard The way he gnawed at his red mustache showed how misadventure had raveled his nerve. The Flying Legion The thought behind I strove to join Unto the thought before, But sequence ravelled out of reach Like balls upon a floor. Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete The thought behind I strove to join Unto the thought before, But sequence ravelled out of reach Like balls upon a floor. Poems by Emily Dickinson, Third Series When new, it should be washed before being made up, and the threads raveled or drawn, so as to make the ends exactly straight. Science in the Kitchen. In this chaotic medley it will be observed that the plot is twice ravelled and loosed before the final solution. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England He took hold of those long, soft threads, and the horse lifted him gently to his feet, and they walked, his arm about her neck, his face in the ravelled silk of her mane. Darrel of the Blessed Isles The tide ran heavily against the shore, and the wake of the wherry broke the floating stars into cold white streaks and zigzag ripplings of raveled light that ran unsteadily after them. Master Skylark I was there three minutes after the explosion and there wasn't even a ravelling or a horsehair left. The Hunted Woman The young lady loved fun, and a playful struggle ensued between her and Hermione; in the course of which the large grey worsted ball and its long ravelled tail were drawn from the little pocket. The Fairy Godmothers and Other Tales The fabric may be slightly ravelled at the ends and slightly rough at the selvedge, but in the main it is fine and smooth and lustrous as well as strong. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Photographs of this ravelled cable were for a long time exhibited as a curiosity in the windows of Messrs. Newall & Co's. shop in the Strand, where we remember to have seen them. Heroes of the Telegraph The place whereupon the priest formerly raveled out the small intestine of the sacrificial victim for purposes of divination and cooked its flesh for the gods. The Devil's Dictionary Is there a ravelled riddle left That you would have undone? The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens The nest was wholly woven and felted with ravellings of woollen carpet in which scarlet predominated. My Garden Acquaintance Then came an Indian to me with a pair of stockings that were too big for him, and he would have me ravel them out, and knit them fit for him. Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson In a single one of these monstrous buildings, the Hudson Terminal, there is a cable that runs from basement to roof and ravels out to reach three thousand desks. The History of the Telephone And, spangled with the shine and shade, I see the rivers raveled out In strands of silver, slowly fade In threads of light along the glade Where truant roses hide and pout. Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley — Volume 1 From the folds of the forested hills there are ravelled and roundabout tracks, Because of the terror that fills the strong-handed men of the axe! The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens Upon the top of the wall there were again the marks of badger; and some ravellings of a sack had caught on a briar. The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter With lowered axe, with backward head, Late from this scene my labourer fled, And with a ravelled tale to tell, Returned. Songs of Travel In order to live, he had been compelled to reorganize his classes in "Visible Speech," and to pick up the ravelled ends of his neglected profession. The History of the Telephone Davy had finished ravelling out his herring net and had wound the twine into a ball. Anne of Avonlea My lips were saut wi' the saut air, My face was brown, my feet were bare The wind had ravelled my tautit hair, And I thought shame to be standing there. New Poems It was only a rag, a long, raveled fragment of cloth. Herland I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky, And at every wandering cloud that trailed Its raveled fleeces by. Ballad of Reading Gaol There was a lovely yellow ravel of sunflowers in the garden. Sons and Lovers Admiration of the ingenuity which had woven this smooth and finished texture out of the ravelled skein was naturally the first impression that I felt, on handing the manuscript back to Ezra Jennings. The Moonstone The lamp, old and bad for the eyes, stood on the table with its polished brass foot and its raveled green cloth shade. The Indian Lily and Other Stories His breeches, badly ravelled at the bottom, scarcely reach below the knee. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I He put his mouth against her throat, below the ear, as she offered it, and stood looking out through the ravel of her hair, dazed, dreamy. The Trespasser Under the fence, in a little bed, was a ravel of poor grassy leaves, such as come from very immature bulbs, and three scyllas in bloom. Sons and Lovers Must I do so? and must I ravel out My weaved up follies? The Man Shakespeare She fingered the length of ravelled bordering that drooped from the hair-cloth cushion of her chair and ran an eye, pretendedly speculative, up and down the pink and green stripes of Mrs. Bates's wall-paper. With the Procession Was it the mother, or had poor Aunt Sarah raveled out? Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings He felt his cheek all wet with her tears, and, between his cheek and hers, the ravelled roughness of her wet hair that chafed and made his face burn. The Trespasser A clump of fluff and ravelled cotton was at her right hand, a heap of three-quarter-inch lace lay on her left, whilst in front of her was the mountain of lace web, piling the hearthrug. Sons and Lovers Each will complete the other, and love knit, up the ravelled strands again into a stronger unity. Robert Elsmere Nowadays, the man who says that he knows the ravel of the inter-tribal complications across the Border is more of use; but, in Wressley's time, much attention was paid to the Central Indian States. Indian Tales His old red jersey was tattered in a dozen places, his muffler frayed and ravelled. Frenzied Fiction Death stands ready with his shears to cut the ravelled thread, knit up the seam, and put his red label on the fabric! Mohun, or, the Last Days of Lee It is the old books that are walking about under these trees, with their follies all ravelled out, making sport for us. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing ravelled out. Ghosts After the painful information you have given me, I expected the Lords of my Council ere now, to take order with the ravelled affairs of this unhappy riot. The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day How often," he said, "will you bring me such ill winded pirns to ravel out? Quentin Durward Here Admiral Darling thrust his thumb through the ravelled seam of his old friend's coat, which made him jump back, for he loved his old coat. Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War And so, save for a few raveled ends, the story of the Boy Scout Camera Club is told. The Boy Scout Camera Club, or, the Confession of a Photograph The ravelled ends are then tucked into the roll. The Prospective Mother, a Handbook for Women During Pregnancy Whenever my thoughts are not with Mama, they are wearying themselves to no purpose in threading the maze of ravelled politics, or rather political arrangements, in which we are living. Lady John Russell And Miss Blake's casual treatment of her, half-bluff, half-mocking, her curt, good-humored commands, her cordial bullying, were a rest to nerves more raveled than Sheila knew from her experience in Millings. Hidden Creek But the Cowes Regatta wag nearly three weeks ahead; and in the meantime there was Goodwood, and the ravelled threads of the London season had to be wound up. Phantom Fortune, a Novel In all probability his three masts have gone by the board, and, ravelled into list, his sails are floating in the air. White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War The speech is full of inwoven irony, doubtful, and refusing to be ravelled out. The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623 In respect both to it and to his ravelled fortune, a great deal too much has been too often said; and the manliness of his character has suffered by the puling. The Life of Lord Byron They secured from untwisting or ravelling the points which were worn for over a century; these were ties or laces of ribbon, or woollen yarn or leather, decorated with tags or aglets at one end. Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) Another, with lint bandages in her hand, begged her to come into a church hard by and assist in ravelling linen for the surgeons. The Battle Ground At length the sun, drawing the last ravelling of light after it, disappeared. The Prince of India — Volume 02 But sleep vouchsafes more, for as Shakspeare says:— Sleep, that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care, The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great Nature's sweet restorer. Philosophical Letters of Frederich Schiller The ball of ravellings forming the mop became then thoroughly, charged with tar or pitch and dried in a rough mass scarcely less heavy than lead. The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore It is difficult to discover which are all linen; but the best way is to find a lot presumed to be good, take a sample, wash it, and ravel it. American Woman's Home You and I wondering Of our old age, Turned a page pondering, And turned a page … Now, my hands pluck ravelled Strands I can't untie. Perpetual Light : a memorial It was another dark day of clouds hanging low, bulging big and black with wind and ravelling into rain along the edges. The Awakening of Helena Richie It was composed of tiny beads, of varying shapes, and had already begun to ravel into shreds. Vicky Van She was the beginning of several desirable things, but the pattern was in no instance finished, and was always ravelling out on one side or the other. From Jest to Earnest "I gave him something like a first aid to stop the bleeding," the young Doctor paused, picked a ravelling from his bandage and went on, still detached from the narrative. The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me Its "face" may be obtruded and withdrawn at pleasure, or rather will, for what creature could have pleasure in a face like a ravelled mop. Confessions of a Beachcomber Mr. Urquhart was in sic a ravel after it that when he gies out the first line o' the hunder and nineteenth psalm for singing, says he, 'And so on to the end.' The Little Minister My friend, Jacob Dowling, Esq., had been spending the day very agreeably in his counting-room with some companions, and at night retired to the domestic circle to ravel out some intricate accounts. The Fiend's Delight The young lady operators have nothing to do with these, and so much the better for them, as it would puzzle their minds a good deal worse than a ravelled skein of thread. The Story of Electricity In the ravelled skein, the slightest threads are the hardest to follow. Basil There were even little stains of blood on the ravelled yarn. Master Sunshine And then, once again, the limp and ravelled fibres of being grew tight with a wrench. The Pit He saw life again as it was, an incomplete and shabby business, a patchwork of torn and ravelled effort. The Valley of Decision But they could not really talk, because of the glassy ravel of women's excited, cold laughter and running voices. Women in Love The rain had ceased, but drops still pattered from the tin roof, and a few stars peeped over the ragged ravelled edge of slowly drifting clouds. At the Mercy of Tiberius He drew his penknife from his pocket and slowly trimmed the ravellings from his shirt-cuffs, blowing them off his wrists. The Reign of Law; a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields What would ye lose?—a remnant of mere life, A few slight raveled threads, and give him years To fill with glory. The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 Pulgar was endeavoring to strike fire with flint and steel into the ravelled end of a cord when he was startled by the approach of the Moorish guards going the rounds. Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada You hadn't any experience in ravelling such things out, and naturally it was too many for you. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories Pieces of ravelled rope were pinned on the head part, but there was no other attempt to assist the imagination. Marm Lisa There's no crying off for YOU no ravelling out, no clean leaves. The Return They wore moccasins for footgear, and on their heads high fur or deerskin caps trimmed with colored bands of raveled cloth. Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground He laid him down on the sun-burned earth And ravelled a flower and looked away— Play? A Boy's Will "He sits ravelling out his life into a multitude of golden threads," went on Ferdinand with a bow, his steely eyes trying to look gentle. The Great Hunger The long, thin white hair, curly at the ends, the aristocratic beak of a nose, the crumpled, wide, ravelling shirt front, the string tie, with the bow nearly under one ear, were almost exactly duplicated. Sixes and Sevens Of one blood we are, and love can ravel up our little difference and make us grow one indeed. Cleopatra Every tress must be confessed; But neatly tangled at the best; Like a clew of golden thread Most excellently ravelled. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 A narrow strip of willow, alder, and buckeye—a mere dusty, ravelled fringe of the green mantle that swept the high shoulders of Table Mountain—lapped the edge of the corral. Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories A man has no right to ravel out his life, even though the threads are of gold. The Great Hunger Over their raveled crests the gulls dipped and soared. Thankful's Inheritance "Oh, I gave her some ravellings from an old tidy," she hastened to assure him. The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields She was cloaked by a skein of ravelled fluff beneath us and we caught the chant before she rose into the sunlight. Actions and Reactions She was standing on the edge of the draw, in her patched jacket and ravelled hood. One of Ours Was he ravelling out his life into golden threads that vanished and were forgotten? The Great Hunger Would it ease you of your Pain To know the tangled Threads of Revenue, I ravel deeper in a hopeless Skein? The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition I only wished to pick at a single knot, but when I had got that undone, the whole thing ravelled out. Anarchism and Other Essays Before she had finished the necessary morning business of dressing, and setting her house in some kind of order, she had disentangled her ravelled ideas, and arranged some kind of a plan for action. Mary Barton She looked like a tramp woman, in a jacket patched with many colours, her head tied up in an old black "fascinator," with ravelled yarn hanging down over her face like wild locks of hair. One of Ours Very difficult to pull, out of that ravelled cart-load of chaotic thrums, here a thread and there a thread, capable of being brought to the straight state, and woven into legible narrative! History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 07 Daily had some loop fallen, which might have gone ravelling far enough; but daily was he there to pick it up again, and keep the web unrent and solidly progressive. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 05 But this new tangling of the mystery, just when the black threads seemed raveled out at last, was almost too much for Dale. The Bat The several straps, after describing a certain number of turns, ravel out at the ends and hang loose. The Life of the Spider He skirted the green till he came to a "raveled walk" that zig-zagged up through the grass, leaving to the left the rough fern-clad bluff that gave the place its name. The Vision Splendid Gently to and fro her tresses drifted on the water, or under the water went ever ravelling and unravelling. Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story It's as if my will had come untwisted and was ravelling out into separate strands. Secret Places of the Heart Wilt thou chop logic with me," said Lambourne, "thou knave, with no more brains than are in a skein of ravelled silk? Kenilworth God took a fit of Paradise-wind, A slip of coerule weather, A thought as simple as Himself, And ravelled them together. New Poems The innocent sleep; Sleep that knits up the raveled sleeve of care, The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast. Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare It was a little past midday when the four-horse stage-coach by which I was a passenger, got into the ravel of traffic frayed out about the Cross Keys, Wood Street, Cheapside, London. Great Expectations Every tress must be confest, But neatly tangled at the best; Like a clew of golden thread Most excellently ravelled. Bulchevy's Book of English Verse Many a rose shall ravel, Many a metal wreath shall rust In the rain, and I go singing Through the lots where you are flinging Yellow clay on dust! Second April It is cheery enough, too, to attract the Pettybaw weans, who steal in on wet days and sit on the floor playing with the thrums, or with bits of coloured ravellings. Penelope's Experiences in Scotland No, no, that self-same heart, that vow Which made us one, shall ne'er undo, Or ravel so, to make us two. A selection from the lyrical poems of Robert Herrick Yet, having known, life will not press so close, and always I shall feel time ravel thin about me; For once I stood In the white windy presence of eternity. The Second Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets In the ravel of one of these pieces was a bit of brown thread. The Jacket (Star-Rover) I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky, And at every wandering cloud that trailed Its ravelled fleeces by. Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde The shattered storm has left its traceUpon this huge and heaving dome,For the thin threads of yellow foamFloat on the waves like ravelled lace. Ballad of Reading Gaol Perhaps also in the following; wherewith we now hasten to knit up this ravelled sleeve:— "But there is no Religion?" reiterates the Professor. Sartor Resartus: the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh The shattered storm has left its trace Upon this huge and heaving dome, For the thin threads of yellow foam Float on the waves like ravelled lace. Charmides and Other Poems The surgeon thrust in his hand and fumbled about for some time, while I wondered whether the feel of that one brown thread could be detected from the rest of the ravel. The Jacket (Star-Rover) |
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