It might also point out how that tangleof misunderstanding which constitutes a Comedy of Intrigue is by no means so contemptible a part of the comic art, as the advocates of the fine-spun Comedy of Character are pleased to assert.
Studying the complicated tangle of connections, he wished that he had as much knowledge of radar as Roger.
There was a tangle of arms and legs and finally the three cadets struggled to their feet.
He knew only too well that the slightest jar or bump against the side of the shaft might dislodge Roger's unconscious body from the tangle of line, causing him to fall to the bottom of the shaft.
She didn't so much see the wide world as get glimpses of it through the tangle of Westminster and of West End and week-end limitations.
But when I faced that I found myself in the middle of a tangleinfinitely less simple than putting back an agricultural population upon its land.
I seemed to rise out of a tangle of immediacies and misconceptions, to see more largely and more freely than I had ever done before.
He lay on the couch fast asleep, in a glorious tangleof limbs, the picture of radiant boyhood.
If you fail to seize them, they trickle earthward through the tangle like a thread of running water.
The Manteuffel’s stern had been wrecked till the structure of the ship above the armour looked like a tangle of battered girders.
Outside the armour the structure of many ships on both sides was fast being reduced to a tangle of shattered beams and twisted and rent plating.
Crossing the field rapidly he soon reached the border of the tangle and entered its black shadows.
As for Peggy, she jumped up and down in her enthusiasm till her golden hair was tumbling in a tangle about her pink shells of ears.
It was not that she confessed so much as that she asserted, she made a glowing thing plain, cried out to him, still standing silent, the deep-lying meaning of the tangle of their lives.
He only let it appear by the most indefinite signs possible that he saw what she saw, peering over his paling, and she in the picturesquetangle outside found it enough.
The figure in the tangle had drawn noiselessly back now and slipped off into the woods a few hundred yards away where it joined another that stood waiting there.
Come on over hyar," prompted Rowlett, and he led the way to the back of the house where half-buried in the tangle that had overrun the place stood the ruins of a heavy and rotting log stockade.
He heard in an interval of consciousness the thrashing of his companion's boots through the tangle and the curses with which his companion was vainly challenging his assailant to stand out and fight in the open.
He huddled under a tangle of briars, masking an ambuscade from which his rifle could rake the road and his eyes command it for a hundred yards to its eastern bend, and he had lain there all day.
Water rarely flowed here now, except in time of freshets, or during the spring and fall rains; and there was such a prodigious tangle of alder, willow, clematis and other vines that for years no one had penetrated it.
Rufus drew a tangle of wool over his head, and otherwise contrived to pose as a sheep lying down.
The whole railroad embankment which bordered it on one side, stretching far above my head, was a mad and joyous tangle of wild-grape vines.
It came out of a tangle of alders to the west, and went into such another tangle about a quarter of a mile to the east.
And she pointed to a rustic ladder lying half-buried in the weedy tangle behind him.
At that moment, one of the bucks wheeled at the edge of the tangle behind which the other deer had passed.
It was a tangle of darts, a medley of sharp little sticks, and a path had to be cut through either with the hatchet or fire.
On every hand were sharp rocks and trees, with a tangle of thorns.
The jungle at the top of the hill was as dense as that below, and the pair had not proceeded far before they found themselves in a veritable tangle of bushes and vines.
From behind the tangle of growth, the three Americans watched the skilful advance of the enemy with dismay.
Soon the rise was gained, and they plunged in behind a tangle of pines.
The mind plunges hopelessly through that tangle to the elements of a speech which is as yet unknown.
He'll be tripped up every two or three minutes with some tangle of old rules.
So look to it, my lord Cardinal; the tangle in the skein was made by your hand.
She looked the dainty young figure disdainfully up and down, then her eye caught the sheaf of roses lying in a fragrant tangle close to the foot of the stairs.
We have seen strange things to-day, and can only guess at the terrible tangle which caused the first gentleman in England to take upon himself the burden of a heinous crime.
Luckily, it was too dark for Palin to see my eyes turn to the tangle of crushed ribbons on the table.
My horse's knees were hidden by the undergrowth on either side of the winding track, that twined and twisted like a snake under the tangle of grass and weed.
The slim, white column parts upon the rocks into a diamond shape, and when, happily, the sunshine catches in its spray, it becomes a tangle of rainbows.
No Indian, however brave, pitches his tipi by this lake nor crosses its waters, for among the tangle of weeds in its black, mysterious bosom, water sirens are believed to dwell.
