| 单词 | ravelling |
| 例句 | 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 For who shall explain the mysterious ravellings of the dim unfathomable East? The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z 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 Some ravellings of cotton had collected there unnoticed. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 “Silk ravellings?—what on earth do you mean?” Chicken Little Jane 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 She crossed the threads of a brook ravelling themselves from density. Marianson From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 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 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 About every third page revealed cloud-like fluffs of silk ravellings in all the colors of the rainbow. Chicken Little Jane Its little wig was made from the fine ravellings of Serena's brown silk stockings. Young Lucretia and Other Stories 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 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 Always provide some nesting material near at hand; linen or cotton thread, ravellings, tow, hair and excelsior are all good. Outdoor Sports and Games 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 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 "Alack, I am worn to a ravelling," said the Tailor of Gloucester, "but I have my twist!" The Tailor of Gloucester And see, on the back a fresh stitch was necessary to keep the ends from ravelling. Patty and Azalea I feel sure that the retrospective discovery of a ravelling would somehow displease Georgiana as a feature of our courtship. Aftermath 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 "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 I was there three minutes after the explosion and there wasn't even a ravelling or a horsehair left. The Hunted Woman The nest was wholly woven and felted with ravellings of woollen carpet in which scarlet predominated. My Garden Acquaintance 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 Davy had finished ravelling out his herring net and had wound the twine into a ball. Anne of Avonlea 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 "Oh, I gave her some ravellings from an old tidy," she hastened to assure him. The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields 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 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 Was he ravelling out his life into golden threads that vanished and were forgotten? The Great Hunger It's as if my will had come untwisted and was ravelling out into separate strands. Secret Places of the Heart 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 |
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