Then suddenly she was caught in the embrace of a low hanging branch, her hair tangledabout its roughness.
Frobisher lay back in his chair with the tangled ropes of blossoms about his sleek head; a great purple orchid with a living orange eye broke from the cluster and hung as if listening.
And up in the dome now there was nothing to be seen but the tangled masses of glorious blooms.
We will suppose that is a man," he said, "a man who has climbed up to the roof to steal the Moth which is all tangled up.
Other tangledropes and loops of blossoms met his gaze and held it as he glanced in the direction indicated by Frobisher.
It seems probable enough that Myrtle's whole spiritual adventure was an unconscious dramatization of a few simple facts which her imagination tangled together into a kind of vital coherence.
It comes to him a thought, tangled in the meshes of a few sweet words,--words that have loved each other from the cradle of the language, but have never been wedded until now.
I think he has, in the midst of his erratic and tangled conceptions, some perfectly clear and consistent trains of thought.
I have n't made up my mind about that," she answered, "but I want to know a little more about this terrible machinery of life and death we are all tangled in.
All right except one thing,--there was a confounded little hair had got tangledround the balance-wheel.
It was but a tangled skein of life that Motley's book showed us at twenty-five, and older men might well have doubted whether it would ever be wound off in any continuous thread.
My feet got tangled in the sheet somehow, and I could not get free.
The Swampscott fishermen still relate How a strange sea-monster stole thair bait; How their nets were tangled in loops and knots, And they found dead crabs in their lobster-pots.
In short, everything was getting tangled up together, and there would be no chance of disentangling the threads in this chapter.
Ten to one he will run like a moth into a candle, right into one of those girls'-nests, and get tangled up in some sentimental folly or other, and there will be the end of him.
The slender rill had strayed, But for the slanting stone, To evening's ocean, with the tangled braid Of foam-flecked Oregon.
The results of the ethnologists are so tangledhere that one has to be cautious when one or another of them draws conclusions concerning immigrations, because of certain local or territorial specializations.
It was the mist tangled by and tangling the trees.
Plantain leaves hit them insolently in the face, lianas hung across their path like green ropes placed to bar them out, weeds tangled the foot.
Torn, twisted, and tangled by storms, those trees stood there like horrible dwarfs whispering of love and life, of hatred and death.
There was no evidence of any unusual happening--no extraordinary collection of rolling stock in the tangled sidings, or gatherings of troops in the outskirts of the town.
Another burst into the open and did no damage, but the third fell plumb between two machines waiting to go up and left them tangled and burning.
Ah, what a tangled web we weave - anyway, with what brains you have left choose me and send me some - many - patterns of this exact shade.
Life is but a tangled yarn at the best; there are blanks and prizes drawn by women still, and not unfrequently "great men" have proved the greatest of blanks to them.
I have tangledthem dreadfully,' blushed Polly; 'the thoughts, I mean.
The woods were fragrant as they passed; a little rill, swelling from the thicket of tangled jewel-weed, welled up, bubbling in the starlight.
Shy violets among the tangled grass, Shed forth your richest perfumes 'neath her feet!
At last he let it drag, and that night he got his legstangled in it somehow and fell over a precipice and was killed.
We've got six saw-mills 'round this town, but nobody ever getstangled in the machinery and sawed in half.
From six till half-past two, we were alternately ascending and descending, scrambling over rocks or fallen timber, or cutting a path through the most tangled thicket that ever tore the wayfarer.
I must have been chasing around so much my mind got tangled up in itself and sort of blew a fuse.
He had separated from his wife while you were tangled up with a lot of women.
To the girls it looked mysterious, and it was with almost a creepy feeling that they opened the creaking gate, and made their way through the tangled garden.
They were silent for a minute, looking at the trees, the shrubs, the grass growing all rough and tangled in the deserted garden.
Then fell her straining topmasts, Hanging tangled in the shrouds.
They clambered up the bank and pushed aside the tangled undergrowth, some of the men using their swords in order to make the quicker way.
In the uncouth philosophy of Caliban, in the tangled ethics of Sludge, in his wildest satire, in his most feather-headed lyric, Browning was never more thoroughly Browning than in this splendid and unselfish plagiarism.
At length we came to a creek whose banks were steep and fringed on either side by trees, from whose branches hung a network of tangledvines and creepers.
Lying upon the plain with his shoulder dislocated and his foottangled up in a lariat, O.
In a moment he realized that his foot was tangled in his lariat, which hung from the pommel of his saddle, with one end tightly fastened there.
A minute more and they are in the broken water, the seas falling in tangled volumes over the boat, and she is tossed in all directions by the wild broken waves.
They could see great masses of splintered timber and tangled rigging, but not a sign of life.
Approaching the wreck, it was with terrible anxiety they strained their sight, trying to discover if there were still any men left in the tangled mass of rigging, over which the sea was breaking so furiously.
On his head were a horrid mask and a red tangled wig, on his shoulders the skin of a wild boar, and in his hand an Ethiopian stone knife.
She was in a coarse shirt, barefoot; her face was smeared with mud from the Nile, and in her tangled hair there were ashes.
