At last the examination and cross-examination were finished, and Guy's counsel began his hopeless task of unravelling this tangled mass of suggestion and coincidence.
When, where, or in what manner, we shall see the unravelling of the vast plot, which is acting in the world, is known only to Providence.
But if it had been no more extensive than France, Spain, and America, the impracticability of unravelling it ought to have thrown out this sentiment.
The great cleverness of certain men at unravelling any code, however complicated, is also openly acknowledged.
This illustrates the problems which beset the unravelling of Arab itineraries.
We must spend a few moments in unravelling this knotty paragraph and determining the relation of its involved clauses to each other, before we can expound it.
With a dignified patience they waited the uplifting of the curtain and the unravelling of the entangled plot.
I shall wish to be reborn in the nethermost depths of hell, because that is the place that most needs enlightenment; that is the place to point out the path to deliverance; that is the place where the light will shine most brightly.
Night after night," he said, "will I watch here until I have succeeded in unravelling this mystery; for that there is some fearful and undreamt of mystery at the bottom of all these proceedings I am well convinced.
This was because Crewe had allowed him to appropriate some of the credit of unravelling Holymead's connection with the crime.
I do not know how to thank you for giving so much of your time to unravelling the mystery.
You've done a lot towardunravelling the mystery, Dollops, my lad," he said.
But I'm going down, to find out where this thing leads to, and a dollar to a ducat it'll lead to a good deal that means the unravelling of a riddle.
Well, we'll be unravellingthe rest of this riddle before the night is out!
In 1845 the American Ethnological Society began its publications, and in Albert Gallatin it had a vigorous helper in unravelling some of these mysteries.
It struck him at first that he was being lowered; but the next moment it seemed to be so much without reason that he jumped to the conclusion that the rope was slowly unravelling and coming to pieces.
I did not even think of cutting a piece off the rope, unravelling it, and making it into a string.
There had been a woman and a tangle of events, and his passion-blinded eyes could see no way of disentangling it, and yet how trivial and easy the unravelling appeared now.
But still higher magnification is demanded in unravelling the mystery of movements associated with the simplest type of life as seen in plants.
In a moment I noted that the number was twenty-two, and having done so placed a watch upon the house, well satisfied that I had taken the first step towards unravelling the mystery.
If I see a hope or chance of unravelling what now looks like a mystery--should it be proved a mystery--I will give you my promise, and my services.
The unravelling tale slowly much as thick yarn with a kitten batting it, one event at a time in sepulchre movement down a linoleum floor.
So in the end he got nowhere in his thoughtunravelling process.
For," he told himself, "it may result in the unravelling of a great mystery and bring to a sudden end a series of great catastrophes.
Cloth may be tested by unravelling a corner of a piece of cloth, lighting it with a match.
Silk may be tested by unravelling an end, and burning the threads.
The more intricate the task the closer his study of it; the deeper the mystery the greater his patience in the unravelling of it; the more powerful the odds against him the more determined his exertions to win the battle.
I shall not live to behold theunravelling of the intricate plot which saddens and perplexes the awful drama of Providence now acting on the moral theatre of the world.
Lincoln's favorite position when unravelling some knotty law point was to stretch both of his legs at full length upon a chair in front of him.
The courts consumed as much time deciding who had committed an assault or a trespass on a neighbor's ground, as it spent in the solution of questions arising on contracts, or unravelling similar legal complications.
Returning once more to the history of educational development, we have here a means of unravelling the apparently perplexing history of universities.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unravelling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
