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But it would be gathered rather in the joy of intellectual activity, realizing its own energy, and ravelling up to its own form the woof of other minds, than with any practical bearing on life.

From The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 by Various

They secured from untwisting or ravelling the points which were worn for over a century; these were ties or laces of ribbon, or woollen yarn or leather, decorated with tags or aglets at one end.

From Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) by Earle, Alice Morse

And see, on the back a fresh stitch was necessary to keep the ends from ravelling.

From Patty and Azalea by Wells, Carolyn

The housekeeper in selecting linen at the counter may test the linen by ravelling out some of the threads.

From Guide to Hotel Housekeeping by Palmer, Mary E.

That does not sound like genius; one imagines genius as ravelling its hair, whatever ravelling may be, and producing the immortal Word to the accompaniment of epileptic fits; absinthe also goes with genius very well.

From A Novelist on Novels by George, Walter Lionel