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Elmer told the others, when a dozen more seconds had dragged past, and they felt they might safely assume that the fugitives must have untied the team, as well as scrambled into the wagon.

From The Hickory Ridge Boy Scouts: Under Canvas or, The Hunt for the Cartaret Ghost by Douglas, Alan

Then those tubings—Dollops, just a little more of this wearisome search, just a few telephone calls to be made, and I believe I shall have untied at least one part of this strange riddle.

From The Riddle of the Frozen Flame by De Maris, Walter

So I did," said she, "but I must have untied the wrong end.

From Seven Little People and their Friends by Scudder, Horace Elisha

With it he managed to cut the thick ropes that he could not have untied, and, in the course of two hours—for he laboured with extreme difficulty—a few broken planks and spars were lashed together.

From Jarwin and Cuffy by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

I have untied against you the club-footed vines, I have sent in the Jungle to swamp out your lines.

From The Second Jungle Book by Kipling, Rudyard