34 collocations for unwinding

Nay, one God made and rules: He shall unwind The tangled skein; the hidden law disclose, Whereby so many sinned in thought and deed.

Then, suspended by this organ alone, she accelerates her motions to and fro with incredible rapidity, quickly unwinds her tail from the branch by which she is suspended, and with a dart, traversing the air as if winged, alights at a hundred paces distance on a vine, which she instantly uses as a swing.

The woman who had brought up the procession, found a place in the far corner, and began to unwind the comforter around her neck.

"You don't look much like your pictures, my friend," he said, unwinding the scarf that he was wearing round his neck.

You're the plague of the parish, and a good thrashing is what you will get, sure as my name's Jonathan Green!' Teddy's face was hot and red, and the spectacle of him trying to unwind the line from the struggling and exasperated farmer was so irresistibly comic to Nancy that she burst out laughing.

A. Please, sir, he has got a long string, which he fixes to another called a loop, and then he unwinds the string, and gets some boy to hold it up.

" By this time I had unwound the voluminous wrappings and exposed the injurya deep gash in the palm that must have narrowly missed a good-sized artery.

Their ghostly fathers can so readily apply remedies, so cunningly string and unstring, wind and unwind their devotions, play upon their consciences with plausible speeches and terrible threats, for their best advantage settle and remove, erect with such facility and deject, let in and out, that I cannot perceive how any man amongst them should much or often labour of this disease, or finally miscarry.

Then he sighed and shrugged his shoulders, and began slowly to unwind a handkerchief which he had tied about his right hand, disclosing several cuts on his knuckles.

We take, we unwind the jewels, the blue flowers are woven over the yellow ones, that we may give them to the children.

" Tobey was busy unwinding a long lariat that bent the captive nearly double and secured him firmly to the panting horse.

He had sprung alongside of Clara, and was already unwinding her lashings.

The small figure on the carpet, which had not for one moment ceased its contortions, now consented to unwind its limbs and stand upright; and in this position assumed definite form as a slender slip of a girl, about twelve years of age.

"It will be better than that hat you are wearingor, here, wait a moment" As he spoke, the Count unwound a woollen muffler from the chauffeur's neck, and placed it round mine.

He unwound the paper and found a doll.

Melinda guessed at his feelings in part, and when he came home at last, looking so pale and tired, she pitied him, and showed her pity by letting him alone; and when supper was ready, sending his tea to his room, whither he had gone as soon as his mother had unwound her arms from his neck, and told him how glad she was.

When he had to do a "crawl" he unwound his puttees and wound them over his knees.

They then unwind the long rope that encircles the loins, and lash the body together in a sitting posture, the head being bent over the knees.

Doubtless it was a very satisfactory thing for a Roman poet, when the wind was quiet, to get an audience about him, under a portico, and unwind his well-written scroll for an hour or two; but there must have been a vast deal of secret machinery, and influence, and agitation, to keep up his name with the people.

"I unwind my song like a string of precious jewels.

let him now unwind his magic spells, Or fall our vengeance on his guilty head.

" But a hooped skirt with a history, touching and teaching, is no theme for flippancy; so, by your leave, I will unwind my story tenderly, and with reverential regard for its smooth turns of sequence.

The leader then starts the line winding around and round the room into a spiral and then unwinding itthe well-known gymnasium class stunt which carried through in a sprightly way is bound to make everybody feel better acquainted.

I guess that's one reason why I haven't been away; I haven't had life enough to want to unwind red tape.

There is a noisy zest about the Scotch preacher: he comes in "stomping" as we say, he must clear his throat, he must strike his hands together; he even seems noisy when he unwinds the thick red tippet which he wears wound many times around his neck.

34 collocations for  unwinding