Example Sentences
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It is not by ravelling that you will best appreciate its tissue or design.
From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret
At length the sun, drawing the last ravelling of light after it, disappeared.
From The Prince of India — Volume 02 by Wallace, Lewis
Was he ravelling out his life into golden threads that vanished and were forgotten?
From The Great Hunger by Worster, W. J. Alexander (William John Alexander)
And see, on the back a fresh stitch was necessary to keep the ends from ravelling.
From Patty and Azalea by Wells, Carolyn
It has been ravelling out, since last sunset, Rags hanging soft and low From sulky skies of jet.
From Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell by Various
