She stopped to cough and to show Helen how to untangle some threads.
She stopped talking and fell to her work, and for two hours she showed Helen just how to draw the threads through, to shift the machine, to untangle the tangled threads.
He had been able to go straightforwardly in all matters till then; this new inability to handle complex affairs and to untangle the situation made him distrust himself and wonder whether he was much of a man, anyway!
Of course she will have to be tried in open court, unless we can untangle the mystery in time to convince the grand jury of her innocence, which I mean to make a desperate effort to do.
Neale, without knowing what she did, to help her grow up, to help her save what was worth saving in her, to help her untangle from the many-colored confusion of her nature what was best worth keeping.
It was as though she had been gazing down through a powerful magnifying glass, trying to untangle with her eyes a complicated twist of moral fibers, inextricably bound up with each other, the moral fibers that made up her life .
Then he appeared troubled and said that I must give him time to untangle a snarl into which he had drifted rather than involved himself.
Give your mind to your art, and never hope to untangle the snarl of a woman's mind.
As he looked at her neat gown and noted the grace and ease of her movements the agent acknowledged that he had really "come to the right shop" to untangle his perplexing difficulties.
Surely there was enough here to excite the curiosity and warrant an effort to untangle the mystery.
He said nothing more until we stopped before the Vantine house, but I could see, from his puckered brows, how desperately he was trying to untangle this quirk in the mystery.
But Helen agreed to let Dud govern her future course in trying to untangle the web of circumstance that had driven her father out of New York years before.
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