99 collocations for untie

Philip carefully untied the knots, and draped it over the straw.

"Yesyesyes!" cried Johnnie, reaching up swift, nervous fingers to unfasten the cap from her hair, thrusting it in the pocket of the apron, and untying the apron strings.

The stranger untied the rope from the picket pin, and taking a half-loop around the pony's nose, he jumped on his back.

But I didn't realise this till I went to untie my horse; then I found the keys in my hand.

" "Then do but untie my hands and I will fight thee and thy men with no weapon but only my naked fists.

Patsy turned it over once or twice, and then broke the wax and untied the cord.

The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun.

Dire amazement shook The dying youth, and mournful thus he spoke: "If thou art Rustem, cruel is thy part, No warmth paternal seems to fill thy heart; Else hadst thou known me when, with strong desire, I fondly claimed thee for my valiant sire; Now from my body strip the shining mail, Untie these bands, ere life and feeling fail; And on my arm the direful proof behold!

The younger girls began untying the bundles.

Suddenly two of them jumped into the car and began to untie his arms and feet.

I can untie parcels with my teeth, like this.

Stepping again into the tepee, I untied my snow-shoes, which were fastened to the tent-poles.

Reflecting upon their disagreement I recall that about an hour ago Jake, with an apologetic "Excuse me!" disturbed me while I was writing and untied the bean sack on which I am now sitting, and took from it a double handful of beans.

She hurriedly untied the ribbon from her neck, and put it in her pocket.

Poor Raphael began to feel the cold painfully, and Madelaine perceiving that his hands were benumbed, untied her apron, and rolled them up in it.

He was their first-born and only child, and, as a matter of course, a great pet, and regarded by them as a most wonderful boy; in consequence, papa sat quite still, and permitted him to pull the studs out of his shirt, untie his cravat, rumple his hair, and take all those little liberties to which babies are notoriously addicted.

How oft has death untied Bright links that glory wove, Sweet bonds entwined by love!

She began to untie the packet and turned to the light (all the windows were closed in spite of the heat).

" Then slowly the Miller arose to his feet, and slowly and unwillingly he untied the mouth of the bag, and slowly thrust his hands into the meal and began fumbling about with his arms buried to the elbows in the barley flour.

Wash the rice, tie it in a cloth, allowing room for it to swell, and put it into a saucepan of cold water; let it boil for an hour, then take it up, untie the cloth, stir in the fruit, and tie it up again tolerably tight, and put it into the water for the remainder of the time.

" Bud untied the animal, who limped even more acutely than his master.

Then, first of all, Dawson unties the leg of the hogskin, and draws off a quart of wine, very carefully securing the leg after, and this we drank to our great refreshment; and next Moll, being awoke from her dreams and eager to be doing, sets herself to sort out our goods, such as belong to us (as tools, etc.), on one side, and such as belong to her (as pipkins and the rest) on the other.

I tried to untie the line, but it was drawn into a knot so hard, that the old Nick himself couldn't move it.

All this he took in at a glance, and, without word or comment, he made a quick dodge of his head, jumped to one side, made a dash for his horse, and, untying the bridle with a jerk, he mounted and galloped out of the open gate, turning as he did so to find himself still covered by the muzzles of that gun.

I had barely time to untie the young man and take him to the back of the house before the officers and their followers had entered the front door.

99 collocations for  untie