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My lips were saut wi' the saut air, My face was brown, my feet were bare The wind had ravelled my tautit hair, And I thought shame to be standing there.

From New Poems by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Squire Longbow wore the same clouded-blue stockings that he did when first elected magistrate; but Mrs. Longbow had ravelled them up several times, and "footed them over."

From The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West by Riley, H. H.

There was the work-box where I had ravelled her silks unchidden.

From Discipline by Brunton, Mary