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- And, indeed, if you see what a hopeless tangle our present situation is, where else can the mind logically go? [4]
- A gray mist would tangle the head of the oldest man that ever lived. [5]
- I said it would go right to my head, and confuse me so that I would be in a helpless tangle in ten minutes. [5]
- Nor was it wholly anger, Hodder, but a queer tangle of feelings I can't describe. [9]
- He came down upon us sideways, his legs all in a tangle, and his right arm, bent and twisted, going round and round, as if in vain efforts to get into his pocket, his fingers spread out in impotent desire to clutch something. [4]
- The sun shone upon her, glinting on the little head with its tangle of bright hair and the small, oval face with its pallor, and dark-blue eyes underlined by dark-blue circles. [13]
- Brent jumped out, the chauffeur opened the hood, and they peered together into what was, to Honora, an inexplicable tangle of machinery. [9]
- Oh, what a tangle of our lives! [13]
- To understand and remember them was impossible, and she gazed in astonishment at the old man who so clearly comprehended the confused tangle and drew from it so readily just what he needed for his purpose. [10]
- It seems too preposterous--perfectly lurid--that I could have been going to tell you what a tangle I'd got myself in, and to ask you to help untangle me. [8]
- She is not particularly skilful and even less patient over this not very easy task, and presently, when a fresh tangle checks the horn comb with which she is dressing it, she tosses the comb on to the couch. [10]
- She can pick out what threads of sense may be wound off from the tangle of his ideas when they are crowded and confused, as they are apt to be at times. [6]
- The Irishman came out of the tangle of battle with a wild kind of light in his eye, his beard all torn, and face battered. [11]
- A crazy inscription on a block of stone, which snuffy antiquaries bother over and tangle up and make nothing out of but a bare name (which they spell wrong)--no history, no tradition, no poetry--nothing that can give it even a passing interest. [5]
- We cut clear of the tangle, and were making once more to board her, when I saw to windward two French frigates bearing down on us under full sail. [11]
- He was thinking of the tangle into which things had got. [11]
- Through the tangle of bramble stems at the mouth of the run, above naked brown shoulders there glared at me, hideously streaked with red, a face. [9]
- I can free myself from the tangle, but it could never be explained--not so the world would believe. [11]
- A beard and mustache covered the lower part of his face, and a tangle of hair, infested with lice, curled round his head like a cap. [2]
- Jungles of the mangrove tree stood up out of swamps; propped on their interlacing roots as upon a tangle of stilts. [5]
- She had told Lassiter that she felt helpless and lost in the fateful tangle of their lives; and now she feared that she was approaching the same chaotic condition of mind in regard to her religion. [13]
- This gentleman's article is an able one (as articles go, in the French, where they always tangle up everything to that degree that when you start into a sentence you never know whether you are going to come out alive or not). [5]
- Aye, she hath indeed cast her devil's tangle of gold about me to ensnare all that is vain and base in me; but she has no more room in my heart than those bees have. [10]
- A distant man in a yellow hunting shirt stumbled, and was drowned in the tangle as in water. [9]
- I got lost in a tangle of narrow and crooked streets, and stayed lost for an hour or two. [5]
- He had left home only to escape the intricate tangle of life's demands that enmeshed him, and which in his present condition he was unable to unravel. [2]
- Another dish--looks like greens or a tangle of fine seaweed--is a preparation of the deadly nightshade. [5]
- Guides know about enough English to tangle every thing up so that a man can make neither head or tail of it. [5]
- The drivers all drive in the streets here as if they held a commission from the devil, cracking their whips, shouting to their horses, and dashing into the thickest tangle with entire recklessness. [4]
- Well, we have come within hail again; and now, don't you think that you might help to straighten this tangle, and try to arrange a reconciliation between those two? [11]
- Now the present case, as the doctor sees it, is just exactly such a collection of paltry individual facts as never was before,--a snarl and tangle of special conditions which it is his business to wind as much thread out of as he can. [6]
- Suddenly the forest came to an end in a sort of premeditated tangle of wild garden, and across a wide lawn the great house loomed against the western sky. [9]
- I had tried before to cut it out for you, for you complained yesterday that your hair was all in a tangle because you had not a comb, so I tried to carve you one out of bone. [10]
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