On one occasion she even went so far as to inveigle him into holding a skein of wool about his clumsy hands, while she wound the violet worsted into a ball, and delicately inquired if he believed Samuel spoke the truth when he had protested that he had never paid court to any other woman.

But it may sometimes be doubted whether Michael Angelo could himself have done more than indicate the general drift of his thought, or have disengaged his own conception from the tangled skein of elliptical and ungrammatical sentences in which he has enveloped it.

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

Now thee may run down and get me a skein of red yarn thee will find on the top shelf in the nursery closet.

"O, dear!" said she; "it sticks up all over my head like a skein of yarn.

From a skein of finely twisted threads of silvery sinews my mother pulled out a single one.

Select, as a test color, a skein of light green color, such as would be obtained by mixing a pure green with white.

If, however, one or more confusion-colors be selected, proceed as follows: select as a test color a skein of pale rose.

Select a bright red skein.

She twisted you about her pretty fingers like a skein of wool.

" "It is a tangled skein to unravel," rejoined Mr. Percival.

Nevertheless, there are frequent cases in which the end of a play depends on something very like the unravelling of a tangled skein; and still more often, perhaps, is it brought about through the loosening of some knot in the mind of one or more of the characters.

Pretty soon I found it; it was a skein of linen thread I was going to wind for Lurindy.

Men of action exhaust their energies in doing, and are usually impatient of the slow process of unwinding the tangled skein of events which at the moment they had been compelled to cut with the sword.

Her tresses once when this was done, Vanished the skein, the needle bare, She dressed with wreaths vermilion Bright as a trumpet's dazzling blare.

His arms were out, and he held a skein of worsted from hand to hand which my mother was busily rolling into a ball.

His thoughts were a loose skein of threads, And tangled emotions, vague and dim; And sacrificing what he loved He lost the dearest part of him.

He immediately remembered that his mother often told him: 'Theodore, it is of no use to send you to match a skein of silk, for you never bring the right color.'

Is't not so, mistress? Enter BIBBER in slippers, with a skein of silk about his neck.

Six years ago some women of the Fabian Society, deeply stirred by the tremendous social import of this movement, banded themselves together to unravel the tangled skein of women's economic subjection and to discover how its knots were tied.

Hope, for lovers, is a skein of worstedendless.

IBSEN, HENRIK, Norwegian dramatist and poet, born at Skein, in Norway; bred to medicine; is author of a succession of plays of a new type, commencing with "Catalina," a poor attempt, followed by "Doll's House," "Ghosts," "Pillars of Society," and "Brand," deemed his masterpiece, besides others; his characters are vividly drawn as if from life; he is a psychologist, and his productions have all more or less a social bearing; b. 1828.

Inside, also dressed up in her Sunday best, sat the daughter; she was spinning as if she meant to turn out an entire skein of yarn that very day.

It is like a skein of tangled yarnthere doesn't seem to be any end to it.

Here, when to ease her tangled skein Fate cut her threads and formed anew The pattern of the thing she planned And red war slipped the shuttle through, Montcalm met Wolfe!