| 单词 | ravel out |
| 例句 | 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 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 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 “He will ravel out,” said the Sea Lady. The Sea Lady 2011-04-22T02:00:07.843Z 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 The housekeeper in selecting linen at the counter may test the linen by ravelling out some of the threads. Guide to Hotel Housekeeping 2011-01-27T03:00:39.557Z 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 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 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 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'm only an ill-assorted snarl of threads ravelled out from my different ancestors." The Dominant Strain 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 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 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 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 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 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 Cynthia had to cut the thread and ravel out a round. A Little Girl in Old Salem The nervous equipment of an American would ravel out, if it were not for sound sleep. Golden Lads The race of Hohenzollern has wilted and ravelled out to this. Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers 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 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 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 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 Why is it that pleasure excursions seem to ravel out? In the Footprints of the Padres 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 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 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 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 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 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 Davy had finished ravelling out his herring net and had wound the twine into a ball. Anne of Avonlea Must I do so? and must I ravel out My weaved up follies? The Man Shakespeare Was it the mother, or had poor Aunt Sarah raveled out? Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings 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 How often," he said, "will you bring me such ill winded pirns to ravel out? Quentin Durward 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 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 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 There's no crying off for YOU no ravelling out, no clean leaves. The Return "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 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 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 It's as if my will had come untwisted and was ravelling out into separate strands. Secret Places of the Heart A man has no right to ravel out his life, even though the threads are of gold. The Great Hunger Was he ravelling out his life into golden threads that vanished and were forgotten? The Great Hunger |
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