ravelled

Great nature's second course, that knits the ravelled sleeve of care.

The ravelled ends are then tucked into the roll.

'He had lost his thread and Cameron's head was too ravelled to think much about it anyway.

She ran to her golden tapestry and fitted the threads into the ravelled warp.

I told him about Ambrosius' death without other issue, and the ravelled clue the god had thrust into my hand, bidding me follow it.

The knitting up of ravelled care?

Beckett's subject isn't politics, nor contemporary history, of which any politics we may adduce is a temporary ravelled end.

You'd better go knit some more sleeves of ravelled care," Isthia suggested with therapeutic asperity. "

We paused now and again to gather the ravelled threads of our faltering strength, and then climbed on.

No, no telltale little pinpoint holes, no ravelled threads.

In her sleep she kept knitting up his ravelled sleeve, and he'd told her countless times the word was sleave, a kind of silk.

It wasn't the firemaking that had turned sour on her, it was the ravelled mesh of events and her own emotions.

Tha gets ravelled.

I shall have a fine ravelled pirn to unwind, and may end by disgracing both the lassie and myself.

The specific recommended by Jeeves might be widely recognized but so far it had done nothing toward enabling him to knit up the ravelled sleeve of care.

No concerted effort was made to care for the families of those who had fallen, or to help returned Veterans repair the ravelled threads of their civil lives.

With lowered axe, with backward head, Late from this scene my labourer fled, And with a ravelled tale to tell, Returned.

And beyond them, twenty thousand miles below, was the blue-green glory of the full Earth, floating against the ravelled star clouds of the Milky Way. '

Photographs of this ravelled cable were exhibited as a curiosity in the windows of Newall & Co.'s shop in The Strand.

It implies that love is a transforming wand, one that unlooses the ravelled knot, fills the top hat with handkerchiefs, sprays the air with doves.

He created the television series Operation Patch (later novelised), The Ravelled Thread, and The Panther's Leap.

Pastis is in the former Ravelled Sleave, and it has retained the warm, country feeling with its fireplace, cozy banquettes and long bar, where one can order tapas.

The cats stalked along the wall, Ginny sleek and shining, Olly a pathetic sight with his ravelled hair and ugly appendages dangling from his neck and body.

There were so many loose or ravelled threads to follow, Dirk and Ada, Ruth and Saul, Garrick and Michael, and all of them made him sad.

We know it is a habit and a state of rest in which nature knits up the ravelled sleeve of care, but we don't know how many hours of sleep each individual requires.