Hitherto, I had stood, watching the dog; yet, all the time, with half my gaze on the wild tangle of gardens, stretching 'round me.

I got tangled in the staircase curtains and fell down the stairs.

"Them that get tangled with Donnegan don't last long.

Indeed, the thread was in a wonderful tangle about the whole machine, and it took him a long time to unwindturning the wheel backwards, so as not to break the thread.

The clematis, mingling its foliage secretly with its host, comes down with the stream tangles to the village fences, skips over to corners of little used pasture lands and the plantations that spring up about waste water pools; but never ventures a footing in the trail of spade or plough; will not be persuaded to grow in any garden plot.

Where he who thinks, with rapture blind, This hallowed work for him designed? ANTISTROPHE High on some cliff, to heaven up-piled, Of rude access, of prospect wild, Where, tangled round the jealous steep, Strange shades o'erbrow the valleys deep.

Leaving the crest of the ridge behind, the dogs began to run; they soon brought up in a tangle at the road-house door.

Then we shrank back from our first glimpse of a little swamp of foul brown water, backed up by the sand-brush, with trees in every stage of decay, fallen and tangled into a doleful thicket, through which the spider-legged Mangroves rose on stilted roots.

And the birds sang loud, and the wild-flowers starred the birch-grove, and the briar-roses wove a tangle on either side the swampy trail.

Every kind of shrub and tree was woven into an ungodly tangle by the crawling, leaping vines that shut out the sky and made it impossible to see a person standing only a few feet away.

The sun was appreciably lower, the shadows already made dusky tangles among the trees, when the man carrying the canvas roll came at last under the cliffs.

All the telegraph wires had been cut, and they dangled about the bases of the poles in snarled tangles like love vines.

The governor had to watch the writhing tangle as a whole during every minute he devoted to any one kinked and knotted thread.

Telephone and telegraph wires depend in a loose tangle from the poles.

The opposing streams of traffic would merge in a tangle beyond extrication until a halt enabled each to go its way.

Why is it that no man stays away When he's sworn to his friends he would? Where lies the grip this country hath All tangled around the heart That takes a grip that can never slip And can never be torn apart?

"What's that tangle above the cliffs there?" he asked.

Then he plucked from back of an ear a half-smoked cigarette, relighted this, and leered humorously at the spreading tangle before him.

He thought, perhaps, of all the possibilities of discovery that still lay in the black tangle beneath him; for to the naturalist the virgin forests of Borneo are still a wonderland full of strange questions and half-suspected discoveries.

In this view, I do not see anything so fit to talk about, or half so interesting, as that which relates to the innumerable majority of our fellow-creatures, the dead-living, who are hundreds of thousands to one of the live-living, and with whom we all potentially belong, though we have got tangled for the present in some parcels of fibrine, albumen, and phosphates, that keep us on the minority side of the house.

One man was holding his head to keep his brains from spilling, and the others lay tangled amidst upturned chairs and cottage furniture.

"We'll have to straighten out that ticket tangle after the show," mused Joe.

His cap was lost, and his thin hair tangled over his forehead, his coat was torn off, so that he stood in his waistcoat alone; he was pale, and gasped terribly, whether from the sharp run, or from violence, or fear, or all combined.

But Rod gave an involuntary shudder as he gazed ahead into the chaotic tangle through which it led.