When Peter brought in a trailing tangle of them, and two boards for splints, Phyllis was excitedly giggling.
There, lying half-buried in the thick, cool under-hedge tangle that bordered it, he could muse on the metalled road and all the wondrous world that it led to; on all the wayfarers, too, that might have trodden it, and the fortunes and adventures they had gone to seek or found unseeking—out there, beyond—beyond!
Clearly he had been getting into some sort of a tangle, and she was grateful to Lotty for stopping her in time at dinner from saying something hopelessly complicating.
Then she swayed, lost her balance, stumbled, staggered, and fell, sliding down over the sun-baked roof and crashing off it through the tangle of Virginia creeper beneath—all before the dismayed circle below could give a simultaneous, terrified shriek.
Its windows looked east and west; through the west one, looking out on the back yard, came a flood of mellow June sunlight; but the east one, whence you got a glimpse of the bloom white cherry-trees in the left orchard and nodding, slender birches down in the hollow by the brook, was greened over by a tangle of vines.
It was said that one might wander days and nights together through its intricate tangle of rifts and chasms, and never find the end of the cave; and that he might go down, and down, and still down, into the earth, and it was just the same—labyrinth under labyrinth, and no end to any of them.
And now and then they stooped in a group and splashed water in each other's faces with their palms, gradually approaching each other, with averted faces to avoid the strangling sprays, and finally gripping and struggling till the best man ducked his neighbor, and then they all went under in a tangle of white legs and arms and came up blowing, sputtering, laughing, and gasping for breath at one and the same time.
, A thick tangle of blond curls dripped down past his golden choker and high velvet collar.
" They brought in a company, and that's when they realized there was not a tangle of wires inside.
That sword will tangle you up, m'lord.
To my immense relief, however, my wide-toothed comb went through my hair as easily as it normally does - with not a tangle in sight.
Do you not remember how he sat at the window and wondered at the tangle of your roots that plunged underground?
To my immense relief, however, my wide-toothed comb went through my hair as easily as it normally does - with not a tangle in sight.
Later this summer, the studio is going to begin building out its monster-movie universe with a reboot of The Mummy, in which Tom Cruise will not only tangle with an Egyptian mummy but Dr.
If your earphones are jostling around in your pocket at all, the probability that they will tangle is high.
To my immense relief, however, my wide-toothed comb went through my hair as easily as it normally does - with not a tangle in sight.
But when I sit on the chair at the foot of his bed, looking at his white face through the tangle of gleaming plastic tubes and IV lines, I am dry-eyed.
News reports spoke of a "new ancestor," even a "new human species," assuming a ladder heading our way, whereas what we are actually facing when we investigate our ancestry is a tangle of branches.
I vomited on a tangle of weeds, my retching and groaning drowned in the deafening roar of the MiG.
I threw it amid a tangle of weeds.
