It could be urged with much force that the Monroe Doctrine in the one case and the Washington policy of avoiding "entangling alliances" in the other would be so affected that they would both have to be substantially abandoned or else rewritten.

The old wolf had been undisturbed; no dog or hunter had chased her; no trap or pitfall had entangled her swift feet.

Once it moves and entangles your legs and Skis, you will feel the extraordinary helplessness which results.

The French sought to entangle the United States in their own revolution, with which most Americans sympathized until its atrocities filled them with horror and disgust.

Johnson (Works, viii. 409) thus writes of Shenstone and the Leasowes:'He began to point his prospects, to diversify his surface, to entangle his walks, and to wind his waters; which he did with such judgment and such fancy as made his little domain the envy of the great and the admiration of the skilful; a place to be visited by travellers and copied by designers.

This, of course, accounted for the fact that the night watchman heard all that he did hear, on that memorable night, and so helped further to entangle the thread of that impenetrable mystery.

But it did its best to entangle his reason and thwart his action.

"French diplomacy is succeeding more and more in entangling England in the meshes of her net.

Above all, she was patriotic and disinterested in her efforts to develop the resources of her kingdom and to preserve it from entangling wars.

Then Redbud was somewhere in the neighborhood of the townshe had not gone far out into the wide, unknown worldthis pigeon might direct him;Verty found a thousand thoughts rushing through his mind, like so many deer in a herd, jostling each other, and entangling their horns.

Surely then you cannot refuse it for my bleeding fatherland, when I beg of you, as individuals, trifling sums, such as each can well spare, and the gift of which does not entangle your country in any political obligation.

These dragged along after the dredge over the surface of the mud, and entangled the creatures living theremultitudes of which, twisted up in the strands of the swabs, were brought to the surface with the dredge.

while she is with me, some means may be found To temper the air and to hallow the ground To make those entangling bind-weeds decay, Drive Suspicion, who rear'd them, for ever away, And leave all around, kind, and healthful, and gay!

That some of the fair sex may have carried their musical practice too far, like many who have lived since then, is perhaps indicated in some verses of that date which run in the following strain: "This is all that women do: Sit and answer them that woo; Deck themselves in new attire, To entangle fresh desire; After dinner sing and play, Or, dancing, pass the time away.

She is always unfortunate in her attempts to extricate her heroes and heroines from entangling difficulties.

This war entangled Europe, and led to great battles, not in Germany merely, but around the world.

The ordinary life of a castle was that of isolation, which made women discreet, self-relying, and free from entangling excitements.

Among other ingenions devices Sannazzaro mentions that of pinning down a crow by the extremity of its wings and waiting for it to entangle its fellows in its claws.

The stone-cutters have shaped a block of stone into a figure, and have spread it as a net to entangle fools.

In their inquiries they painfully entangled geography, as they could only comprehend two divisions in it, the countries of heretics, and the countries of Christians.

"The purpose," replied the other, weakly, "was to so entangle your government that it would not dare lend aid to the revolutionary leaders.

Then to the copse, Thick with entangling grass, or prickly furze, With silence lead thy many-coloured hounds, In all their beauty's pride.

"I have no fear: the twigs that will entangle her precious guardians in the labyrinths of a false clue are already set and limed.

After a while he entangled his guest in a controversy concerning the proceedings of the patriarchs and the evidences of Christianity, and lost his temper on finding that his sarcasms failed to make their usual impression.

Their eyes could not have been deep and intricate from the workings of the mind, and could have entangled no heart in soul-enwoven labyrinths."