My aunt was walking in the garden, and found it, with its chain on, entangled in the bushes.
Slender threads: the merest gossamer, but so tough that, once entangled in them, no man escapes.
What worried him most, however, was, of course, the break with Betty and the difficulties in which he had innocently entangled her father.
On the threads black dots that were hurrying men and women seemed to quiver like entangled flies.
The force of the spring not only drew the net together, but dragged out the peg, and rabbit and net inextricably entangled rolled down the bank to the bottom of the ditch.
Perhaps the roots had been checked by the water; for the tree, instead of increasing in bulk, had expended its vigour in branches so crooked that they appeared entangled in each other.
A black mass of mud-coated sticks, rotten twigs, and thorn bushes, entangled in the meshes, is often the only result of much toil.
Some of our best students in the technical departments developed great love for literary studies.
Somewhat later there came a piece of good fortune.
His speeches were simple, clear, forcible, and aided at times in rescuing the self-respect of the body.
His reticence gradually yielded, and he gave me much information regarding his earlier years: they had been full of toil and struggle, but through the whole there was clear evidence of a noble purpose.
Not a man failed, and some really distinguished themselves.
During this special session of the State Senate it was entangled in a curious episode of national history.
Still made sanguine by his very energy of mind, he threw himself on the chances of the future, and believed he should yet triumph over the woman that had so entangled his passions.
At length the space was no longer open; wild vinesentangled their steps, and hid from them, save by imperfect intervals, the guiding beam.
Entangled in the dark web of metaphysical moralities, he caught at the excuse by which the Egyptian converted vice into a virtue.
The country is entangled with wild vines, and dangerous with precipitous caverns.
Spain was entangledin the close of the Seven Years' War, to her great loss.
By refusing to become entangled in Italian troubles and confining himself to Bohemia, he proved that he preferred the substance of power to its shadow.
The river is like an entangled skein of thread, and the voyage is tedious and melancholy beyond description.
It was an interesting sight to a stranger from town, and as Geoffrey Trethick watched he could hear the remarks of old hands around him canvassing the probability of the fish escaping, or the nets getting entangled among the rocks.
One thing was very evident, and that was that the banker had become entangled in some venture--John Tregenna had hinted as much one evening when at their house, but he had merely hinted, and she could not ask him more.
For the desire of money is the root of all evils; which some coveting have erred from the faith and have entangled themselves in many sorrows.
For if, flying from the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they be again entangled in them and overcome: their latter state is become unto them worse than the former.
Only this I have found, that God made man right, and he hath entangled himself with an infinity of questions.
She entangled him with many words, and drew him away with the flattery of her lips.
The feeling that I was entangled in some unknown network of evil and mystery came back to me with redoubled force.
For any one entangled in such a variety of perils as I appeared to be, I spent a surprisingly peaceful day.
There was an ocean of trees entangled with a beautiful trailer (Actinidia polygama) with a profusion of white leaves, which, at a distance, look like great clusters of white blossoms.
There was a handsome black horse, an officer's charger, that had been disemboweled, and was making frantic efforts to rise, his fore feet entangled in his entrails.
But the staff, although it was broken, became entangled in his legs; he narrowly escaped falling.
The ducks congregate in these holes, and in diving after food become entangled in the snares, and are drowned.
Many others become entangled by the twine of the meshes, which in their efforts to escape gets under the gill covers and so holds them fast.
Were this a single rope he would soon liberate himself, but the small cords become entangled between his teeth, and, though he may cut through a few of them, others are sure to remain strong enough to hold him.
One or more billhooks will be found of great value when traversing the tangled thickets, for dividing vines, lianas, briars, and entangled branches.
They amuse us when they become hopelessly entangled in their sentences (vide Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Sc.
Pray, Clarence, look at her, entangled in her bale of gold muslin, and conscious of her bulse of diamonds!
Nearly all the teams got entangled in their gearing, and became wild and unruly, so that the perplexed drivers were unable to manage them.
For several minutes one loop of the snake became entangled about a sunken pile, and now the scavengers boldly perched in the shallow water and fairly ducked their heads at each beakful.
Your brother may become entangled in some way with this woman.
From gowns she went naturally to the difficulty of knowing whom to meet in a city like New York--and how to meet them--and the watchfulness required to keep daughter Millie from becoming entangled with leading theatrical gentlemen.
Down he went bellowing angrily, for he had not cast off the noose thatentangled him.
With the slack of the lariat she ran forward, caught a kicking hind foot, then entangled one of the beast's forefeet, and drew both together with all her strength.
I rushed first to Sidonia, who laid her little head upon my breast, while I endeavoured to remove the bees which had got entangled in her hair-net.
