56 collocations for unwound

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

Nick did not leave Angela until Kate had come back; then he and the Irish girl together unwound the bandages.

Patsy sat down on the floor and carefully unwound the folds of the cloak.

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.

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.

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

The baker put down his hat, unwound his long woollen comforter, took off his overcoat, and had a cup of tea.

" She released her fingers from his, drew out the hatpins from her hat, unwound the veil and threw them both on to the opposite seat.

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.

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

His lank frame leaned over the footlights and he wound and unwound his long, thin fingers, while his lips sneered and his sharp black eyes gleamed venom as he instructed business men, bankers, smart young officers, lorgnetted dowagers and sweet-faced girls, in the duty of hating with the whole heart and the whole mind.

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.

Kent lifted the clumsily bandaged hand and unwound the handkerchief.

He quickly unwound a big hose that ran up to a tank in the peak above us.

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.

Slowly he unwound his long legs and rose to his feet.

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.

I afterwards unwound also the mass of eggs, which, when coiled up as I first saw it, made a roll of white substance about the size of a coffee-bean, and found that it consisted of a string of eggs, measuring more than twelve feet in length, the eggs being held together by some gelatinous substance that cemented them and prevented them from falling apart.

God knows by what miracle enough red tape unwound to let me through to you, to bring my message and to take one back.

"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 stood in the doorway blinking at us; and with his gloved handsthey were stiff and awkward with the coldhe unwound the ragged muffler that was about his neck and he brushed weakly at the snow upon his head and his shoulders.

Slowly and patiently she unwound those wrapped-up mummies, and disclosed the gems hidden in those burial-clothes; and returned to her father's court enriched with all those long-buried graces, now revived to their former youthful beauty, and with the added charm which wisdom and patience give.

56 collocations for  unwound