Our tale mightunravel the plottings of hopeful mothers who vainly plied the utmost worldly ingenuity to gain for their daughters already passed the meridian of youth such promising and charming husbands.
Pleased with the rich flow of virtuous sentiment that made her still more proud of her child, she had caught the end of a golden thread and wished to unravel it further, but feared it would be snapped by some unpleasant discovery.
If it is, we can unravel this message without bothering the secret service.
Then it's all the more important that we should unravel this thing ourselves.
But I certainly wish we could unravel this thing ourselves.
Chief Flynn told me he thought his men could unravel that message and that I should wait a while," panted Roy, breathless from running up the stairs.
Where's he that will unravel This tangle, ever tangling more and more.
The single threads, which here your prosperous fortune Hath woven together in one potent web Instinct with destiny, O let them not 60 Unravel of themselves.
We might offer strictures upon other passages of the solution under consideration; but as the same error runs through all of them, the reader may easily unravel its remaining obscurities and embarrassments for himself.
Lord Kames boldly cut the knot which philosophy had failed to unravel for him.
We passed two months traversing it from end to end, with the object of trying to unravel some of its ancient history so shrouded in mystery, and learn something about its present inhabitants.
The lurid tragedy of the honeymoon pair cannot compare in interest to anything connected with my sweet Ethelrida, for me, so it is your duty to put that horribly wise, cynical brain of yours to work and unravel me this mystery.
Pon my soul, I can't say--even the Crow could not unravel the mystery.
I thank God that I was brought here to unravel and wind up.
But would ye unravel me, kind young gentlemen, if Colonel Jones is often seen without his Patients?
After briefly collecting her thoughts, which had laboured unceasingly to unravel the mysteries that surrounded the Cavalier, she entered her father's chamber.
That, Constantia, is exactly what I want to know--and I think you could unravel the mystery.
It took Nesta to the end of breakfast to unravel the meaning of the sudden gravity that had fallen over the party, and then she was not sure of herself.
Hence, to clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve; as, to unravel a plot.
To disentangle; to disengage or separate the threads of; as, to unravel a stocking.
To unite or knit together confusedly; to interweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make it difficult to unravel the knot; to entangle; to ravel.
With the coming of the Bonners, Anderson once more revived his resolution to unravel the mystery attending Rosalie's birth.
She's a mystery, that's what she is; but I'll unravel her.
He even lagged in his avowed intention to unravelthe mystery or die in the attempt.
He volunteered to interest his uncle in the matter, and through him to begin a systematic effort to unravel the tangled ends of Rosalie's life.
It is certainly a very mysterious affair, and you, at least, Mr. Town Marshal, should back me up in the effort to unravel it.
Dudley Chisholm sat before the fire in his room until the dawn, trying to unravel a thousand knots, his mind filled with sad memories and with bitter regrets in plenty.
As every confidential agent that England possesses on the Continent is at work endeavouring to unravel the mystery of Mayne Lennox, I am very hopeful of success.
Mr. Gray, returning from the telegraph office later in the evening, finds me endeavoring to unravel the Gordian knot of the situation through the medium of a brown-study.
My geographical ruminations have already resulted in a conviction that there is no possible way to unravel it and reach India with a bicycle; my only chance of doing so is to cut it and abide by the consequences.
This may be also remarked of the scene where their dispute is referred to the arbitration of Daemones, who apparently is chosen umpire for no other reason than because this was necessary to unravel the plot.
The attention necessary to unravel a plot prevents us from remarking the beauties of sentiment or poetry, and draws off our attention from humour or character, the chief objects of legitimate comedy.
Supposing I unravel the whole matter, you may be sure that Gregson, Lestrade, and Co.
There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.
But do you mean to say," I said, "that without leaving your room you can unravel some knot which other men can make nothing of, although they have seen every detail for themselves?
There is a strong family resemblance about misdeeds, and if you have all the details of a thousand at your finger ends, it is odd if you can't unravel the thousand and first.
Under these circumstances, I eagerly hailed the little mystery which hung around my companion, and spent much of my time in endeavouring to unravel it.
There was a mystery connected with the wreck, but they thought they would never unravel it, and, on the whole, they had no wish to try.
There's obviously a mystery; but, after talking the thing over, my partners and I decided that we wouldn't try to unravel it.
Captain Flint, finding that he was not likely to learn anything in this quarter that would unravel the mystery, now called the negro.
The more he endeavored to unravel the mystery, the stranger and more mysterious it became.
I knew that Linton's schemes were advancing more rapidly than I could follow; his increased confidence of manner proved to me his consciousness of strength, and yet I could neither unravel his cunning nor detect his artifice.
It is a tangled web, and, in our hopelessness, we never sought to unravel it!
Now when Senator Hanway had trained his partner and his candidate to come to heel he began to unravel his diplomacy.
Again, the wind, reversing in the dance, will unravel the sand-cone and carry it off to powder it about the plain.
In the latter a Court of Claims was established to unravel the intricacies of the interminable land question and restore the estates, as far as possible, to their former owners.
From there he watched the government unravel the web of conspiracy he had been so busy weaving.
It left him little more than a day in which to unravel the mystery that enveloped Evelyn and her whereabouts.
To ask him to unravel an Oku plot was to set a bat catching sparrows by daylight.
Yet it would be strange, he thought, were she playing some deep game not immediately discernible, if he did not unravelthe tangled skein of her deceit.
Those intricacies, dear Miss Burchell, must be left to time, which I hope may unravel them favourably for us all.
I laid all the circumstances together, and endeavoured to unravel the clue.
I clutch desperately at the thread that still binds me to the living--it seems to unravel in my hands, the thin skeins are breaking, one by one.
The guards eye me with suspicion and greater vigilance, but I soon unravel the tangled skein, and learn the details of the abortive escape that caused my temporary retirement.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unravel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
