"Unknotted" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... He unknotted the towel at the back of his prisoner's head and drew it from Dick's mouth. Gordon expanded his lungs in a deep breath before he spoke coolly to ...
— A Daughter of the Dons - A Story of New Mexico Today • William MacLeod Raine
... waiting hands while the old man unknotted the strings at the mouth of the green baize bag, and all eyes watched Ezra's lean fingers. At the instant when the knot was conquered and the mouth of the bag slid open, Ruth's clear voice was ...
— Aunt Rachel • David Christie Murray
... out the Squire. "Come! Untie this man! Who is he?" A dozen willing fingers quickly unknotted the rope and the bag was slipped ...
— Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates • Howard Pyle
... board; six, the child among them, were still on the low platform of the cliff. A movement of departure was made in the vessel: the captain seized the helm, a sailor took up an axe to cut the hawser—to cut is an evidence of haste; when there is time it is unknotted. ...
— The Man Who Laughs • Victor Hugo
... and then unknotted the bright blue silk neckerchief he wore, and accompanied it with a hearty ...
— Devon Boys - A Tale of the North Shore • George Manville Fenn
... lifted to the skies their stately heads, Tufted with verdure, like depending plumage, O'er stems unknotted, waving to the wind: Of these in graceful form, and simple beauty, The fruitful cocoa and the fragrant palm Excelled the wilding daughters of the wood, That stretched unwieldly their enormous arms, Clad with luxuriant foliage, from the trunk, Like the old eagle ...
— The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 - A Typographic Art Journal • Various
... box has some kind of a hat, I hope," he went on. "I ought to have looked, but there really wasn't time." He unknotted the strings and produced a large picture hat with long black plumes. He was relieved to find it black. While he untied the strings, there had been a growing uneasiness lest the hat be one of those wild, queer combinations of colors that Cornelia ...
— The Mystery of Mary • Grace Livingston Hill
... its master with strong deft fingers unbound and unknotted the various ropes until everything ...
— Desert Love • Joan Conquest |
