No sane man, German or anti-German, who has weighed the prospects of the new age, will be desirous of a restoration of the now vanished German colonial empire, vindictive, intriguing, and unscrupulous, a mere series of centres of attack upon adjacent territory, to complicate the immense disentanglements and readjustments that lie already before the French and British and Italians.

I question profoundly whether the word "science," in current usage anyhow, ever means such patient disentanglement as Darwin pursued.

As always happened in those days, his own accounts were mixed up with those of the Company, and would require laborious disentanglement.

It was vain to seek their disentanglement; it was impossible.

The notables and the chief of the council of finance undertook in concert the disentanglement of the accounts submitted to them.