She was compelled from time to time to use one hand to disengage the folds of her habit, and she had to hold both horses, even if her friend could have gained her saddle unassisted.
The lady should then pass the reins from the right hand to the left, and quietly lift her skirt with the right hand until she can easily disengage her right knee from the upper pommels.
Italian, struggling to disengage himself with a strong effort, and staggering back.
The cavaliere felt that he was lost, if he made not a fearful effort to disengage himself at once from his antagonist, and made a violent lunge at Otmar.
The position was carried with a rush, and many of the Boers bayoneted before they could disengage themselves from the tarpaulins which covered them.
The actions of Elandslaagte and Rietfontein were forced upon him in order to disengage his compromised detachment, but now there was no longer any reason why he should assume the offensive.
She tried for a moment to disengage herself, but although she used all her strength, she was unable to do so.
Twice the Baroness tried to disengage herself, twice her strength failed her.
But unfortunately Sokrates cannot disengage himself from this world of sense: he is obliged to maintain that it partakes of, or is determined by, these extra-sensible Forms or Ideas.
Mrs. Scott exerted her utmost power for many minutes, first to assist her friend, and next to prevent herself from being pulled into the morass, as her distressed companion would not disengage her hand.
We did not lose a moment in rolling his great carcase off Bhoota's body and quickly forced opening the jaws so as todisengage the mangled arm which still remained in his mouth.
The flash and the loud report must have dazed the lion for a second or two, enabling Whitehead to disengage himself; but the next instant the brute pounced like lightning on the unfortunate Abdullah, with whom he at once made off.
Ten or twelve unfortunates, having their inferior extremities fixed in the openings between the pieces of the raft, had perished by being unable to disengage themselves; several others were swept away by the violence of the sea.
On the 3d of July, the efforts were renewed to disengage the frigate, but without success.
Should one commit a thing to your silence that it were of importance to the other to know, how would you disengage yourself?
She struggled to disengage herself, calling on your father by the most endearing epithets to free her from my embrace.
Mrs. Fosdick was trying to disengageher hair from Mr. Fosdick's scarf-pin.
His only action was another violent effort to disengage his cramped knees from the knees of his tormentor; his only comment a vain and weakening cry for help, "Pawtah!
Mallory gasped, as he tried todisengage himself and Marjorie from Kathleen.
They appear to be composed of a very slight and delicate membrane, as they are very easily torn, and nothing is more difficult than to unroll and to disengage them from the fatty or other tissues by which they are enveloped.
It must disengage its head from under the band, not a difficult operation.
When one of them is taken and held between the fingers, there may often be seen a small, oblong, whitish, cylindrical worm come out of the posterior part of the body, and shake itself in order to disengage itself thoroughly.
From time to time, the fettered lioness gave her head a convulsive shake in the effort to disengage her face from the disheveled locks before it--at such times, glimpses were obtained of her hideous, horrible visage.
Having worked industriously yesterday and all this morning we were enabled to disengage one of the periogues and haul it on shore, and also nearly to cut out the second.
Like the men they have a girdle round the waist, and when either sex wishes to disengage the arm, it is drawn up through the hole near the shoulder, and the lower part of the sleeve thrown behind the body.
The horses now became more furious than before, kicking desperately, and endeavouring to disengage themselves from the fallen chaise.
Just a goin' to begin," said Sam, endeavouring to disengage himself.
Well then, good night," said Mr. Pickwick, attempting to disengage his hand.
The oxen in the yokes also became quite unruly, trying to disengage themselves from the traces.
He could not disengage himself; and they pointed out to me the skeleton on the boughs of the tree, as a corroboration of the truth of the story.
So impatient were the poor beasts, that it was very difficult to disengage them, and many broke loose before it could be effected; as soon as they were freed, they followed their companions at the same rapid pace.
Whoever would disengage himself from this violent prejudice of custom, would find several things received with absolute and undoubting opinion, that have no other support than the hoary head and rivelled face of ancient usage.
But the principal effect of its power is, so to seize and ensnare us, that it is hardly in us to disengage ourselves from its gripe, or so to come to ourselves, as to consider of and to weigh the things it enjoins.
Say if you would,' he answered with an oath, as he tried to disengage himself and pass on.
The more complex of the two, in putting a greater number of mechanisms in opposition to one another, has enabled consciousness to disengage itself from the restraint of one and all and to reach independence.
