The jagged man took his ravelled cigar from his mouth and grinned broadly.
The man with a ravelled cigar struck a match and lit the same for the eighteenth time.
His eagle eye caught sight of a fat man with some three parts of a jag sitting at the "dope" table, alternately puffing at a ravelled cigar and nodding sleepily.
No," said the two men in the seat near the strap-clutching man with the ravelled cigar.
Certainly is queer what freaky ideas they get into their heads," went on the man with the ravelled cigar, ignoring the lack of encouragement extended to him.
I shall have a fine ravelled pirn to unwind, and may end by disgracing both the lassie and myself.
She had not gone far, I assure you, before the Advocate was wholly sober, to see his inmost politics ravelled out by a young lass and discovered to the most unruly of his daughters.
We have got soravelled up (and all by my fault) that I know very well the least I could do is just to hold my tongue, which was what I intended fully, and there was nothing further from my thoughts than to have troubled you again.
Besides which, it's supposed that our affairs have got so much ravelledup (as I was saying) that it would be better to let them be the way they are.
Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care," Mary would quote as she tucked her counterfeit self up in her warm bed preparatory to some midnight escapade.
We ravelled out Dum's old red sweater sleeve and made a wonderful wig, some redder than Mary's, but in the subdued light in which it was to be viewed it did very well.
And so is a believer a cumbersome piece of work, and an ill-ravelled hesp (as we use to say), to Christ.
But God be thanked; for many spilled salvations, and many ill-ravelled hesps hath Christ mended, since first He entered Tutor to lost mankind.
And the little electric flashes went with us, in the grass, Tiny lighthouses, little souls of lanterns, courage burst into an explosion of green light Everywhere down in the grass, where darkness was ravelled in darkness.
Bloomfield, the poet, having observed the disappearance of these bits of ravelled web, imagined that the spider swallowed them; and even says that he observed a garden spider moisten the pellets before swallowing them!
But Theodula continued kneeling ceaselessly before her faded and ravelled fragment of cloth.
Their fronts were garnished with tattered carpets, dirty fragments of cloth, and ravelled matting.
Curry, who as a soldier was insensible to fear, now shook in every joint, as he stood beside his horse in a state of confused and ravelled wonderment.
But solitude and her pillow ravelled all this work of charity.
Turning upon their backs with the ravelled ends of the cords hidden close between them, they seemed asleep like their comrades when the watchman cast the light of his lantern through the flapping canvas door.
And in the morning the guard found him asleep with a bit of ravelled rope about his arm.
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky, And at every wandering cloud that trailed Its ravelled fleeces by.
She blocks the breathing-hole with a plug made of the ravelled vegetable fibres of the Cow-dung, a stopper which is eminently permeable.
The sides of the chamber are rasped, thus providing a sort of down formed of ravelled woody fibres, broken into minute shreds.
Rilly Parkhurst whispered to Patty, as she sat down beside her on the sled: "Tilly Coombs has the ravelled mitten!
Berta had not heard about the ravelled mitten; she did not know that Tilly was trying to knit it into shape again so it would never be known that it was her mitten that was ravelled.
Could it be that after spending all that time in the cold barn she had failed to knit up her ravelled mitten?
I stood not long ago at the grave's mouth of a dear and intimate friend of mine who had fatally ravelled both his own hesp and that of other people, till we had to get the grave-diggers to take a cord and help us to bury him.
Horace said that in his day most men fled the empty cask; and all but two or three fled my poor friend's ravelled hesp.
Bonar's Glossary or to Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary to find out what a ravelled hesp is.
My inward life is a ravelled hesp, and I need guidance and direction if I am ever to come out of this confusion and to come to any good.
Young Edinburgh gentlemen who have been born with the silver spoon in their mouth will not understand what a ravelled hesp is.
Rutherford told young Earlston how terribly he had 'ravelled his own hesp' in the days of his youth, and he tells another of his correspondents that after eighteen years he was not sure he had even yet got his ravelled hesp put wholly right.
And so, said Rutherford, is it with the weaver and the web of life, when a man's life-hesp is ravelled in the morning of his days.
The race of Hohenzollern has wilted andravelled out to this.
It is the old books that are walking about under these trees, with their follies all ravelled out, making sport for us.
The natives do not distinguish between this specimen and the Trichosanthes, but it is to be noted that the corolla of the former is not ravelled or fringed.
Then they turned back and the clouds were sultrier, low on the horizon, and the velvety darkness fell more thickly, like warm snow, and the ravelled tjemaras were fuller and blacker than before.
She pulled off her ravelled mitten and gazed at it ruefully.
And then Tilly tucked a ravelled mitten under the ragged ticking of her bed, and slept in peace.
Aunt Eunice said she thought Mrs. Coombs seemed like a good woman; and Patty tried to defend Tilly, although it was difficult to explain her knitting up that ravelled mitten!
I caught my mitten on your basket in my haste to get the chickens, and the edge was all ravelled off, and--the very queerest thing that ever happened!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ravelled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
