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He voluntarily tied that tongue which Claude Frollo had taken so much pains to unloose. Hence, it came about, that when necessity constrained him to speak, his tongue was torpid, awkward, and like a door whose hinges have grown rusty.

His act seemed to unloose a thousand devils in the hairy creature clinging to his throat.

On a slanting stone lay a drowned man, naked, swollen, purple; clasping the fragment of a broken bush with a grip which death had so petrified that human strength could not unloose it--mute witness of the last despairing effort to save the life that was doomed beyond all help.

This enables you easily to unloose the lasso, which then becomes harmless.

"If you know aught of locks, you will know that the mechanism which this unlooses is beyond the cunning of a picker of locks.

John 1:26-33 26 John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not; 27 He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose. 28 These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.

Those that much covet are with gain so fond, For what they have not, that which they possess They scatter and unloose it from their bond, And so, by hoping more, they have but less; Or, gaining more, the profit of excess Is but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain, That they prove bankrupt in this poor rich gain.

In order to unite the "spirit" and "flesh" in the image, Concord embraces it, and Discord is called upon to "unloose" the image's "tongue" (1.1.83).

Just as the ability to unloose its foot soldiers in an election campaign conveys access to union leaders.