Mr Tulliver, when under the influence of a strong feeling, had a promptitude in action that may seem inconsistent with that painful sense of the complicated, puzzling nature of human affairs under which his more dispassionate deliberations were conducted; but it is really not improbable that there was a direct relation between these apparently contradictory phenomena, since I have observed that for getting a strong impression that a skein is tangled there is nothing like snatching hastily at a s
But to-day it was clear that the good principle was triumphant: this affair of the water-power had been a tangled business somehow, for all it seemed—look at it one way—as plain as water's water; but, big a puzzle as it was, it hadn't got the better of Riley.
Will Ladislaw was in one of those tangled crises which are commoner in experience than one might imagine, from the shallow absoluteness of men's judgments.
At last daylight began to show itself confusedly through tangled growth overhanging the mouth of the passage; and the Badger, bidding them a hasty good-bye, pushed them hurriedly through the opening, made everything look as natural as possible again, with creepers, brushwood, and dead leaves, and retreated.
Purple loosestrife arrived early, shaking luxuriant tangled locks along the edge of the mirror whence its own face laughed back at it.
This wasn't a private house; she was in no way tangled up in duties towards a tiresome hostess.
She gave it all immediately to the organisation she worked with, and found herself more tangled in doubts than ever.
Oh, Marilla, 'what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.
Anne watched them as she talked and somehow felt that wind and stars and fireflies were all tangled up together into something unutterably sweet and enchanting.
Presently the hide-and-seek frolicking began, and Tom and Becky engaged in it with zeal until the exertion began to grow a trifle wearisome; then they wandered down a sinuous avenue holding their candles aloft and reading the tangled webwork of names, dates, postoffice addresses, and mottoes with which the rocky walls had been frescoed (in candle-smoke).
They tramped gayly along, over decaying logs, through tangled underbrush, among solemn monarchs of the forest, hung from their crowns to the ground with a drooping regalia of grape-vines.
They stumbled into wet, boggy places; they got all tangled up in thick convolvulus-runners; they scratched themselves on thorns, and twice they nearly lost the medicine-bag in the under-brush.
With classics like Pinnochio, Bambi, The Lion King, The Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid to name a few, along with more recent examples like Tangled, The Princess and the Frog and Frozen, we're not in the minority in saying that Walt Disney leads by example.
These emotional issues are all tangled together with financial issues, and it's important that you untangle them and just deal with financial goals and habits.
It fluttered ungracefully to the ground and landed in a tangled mass of weeds and string against a dead bush.
It fluttered ungracefully to the ground and landed in a tangled mass of weeds and string against a dead bush.
It fluttered ungracefully to the ground and landed in a tangled mass of weeds and string against a dead bush.
The wines which grew later would get tangled with the older ones, and often hung down for their own weight.
Joey woke up and you patted him back to sleep, and left me warm and tangled in the sheets, already waiting for you to be back.
The production of Disney's film Tangled was more expensive than Avatar's production.
