unloose

Later on, the first time that he caught hold, mechanically, of the ropes to the towers, and hung suspended from them, and set the bell to clanging, it produced upon his adopted father, Claude, the effect of a child whose tongue is unloosed and who begins to speak.

``Vows,'' said the Abbot, ``must be unloosed, worthy Franklin, or permit me rather to say, worthy Thane, though the title is antiquated.

The guide unloosed the elephant and led him into a thicket, at the same time asking the travellers not to stir.

Here the ape-man unloosed his grass rope from about his neck, and as Numa stood above the body of the boar, challenging head erect, he dropped the sinuous noose about the maned neck, drawing the stout strands taut with a sudden jerk.

This ominous tool she presented to Miss Scatcherd with a respectful curtesy; then she quietly, and without being told, unloosed her pinafore, and the teacher instantly and sharply inflicted on her neck a dozen strokes with the bunch of twigs.

Unloosed from their lashing by the constant turning and twisting of the ship and the force of the wind, the boarding and landing tackle had been trailing beneath the keel, a tangled mass of cordage and leather.

It is an incomparably finer spectacle when beheld on shore, where the waving trees, the wild flight of the birds, the dark shadows and bright lights, the rushing of the torrents all proclaim the strife of the unloosed elements.

And as he regathered his forces, Tarzan reached Taug's side, and then clambering higher up to the point where the end of the grass rope was made fast, he unloosed it and lowered the ape slowly downward, swinging him in until the clutching hands fastened upon a limb.

The doctor unloosed her hands, carefully laying her on the pillow, and covered her up to the shoulders.

He unloosed vigilantes to trail a suspicious truck.

'Mr Minister, Mr Minister thousands and thousands of farmers have committed suicide in the last five or six years!' 'Find out!' screamed the minister, 'whether she tugged at her halter or unloosed her belt, then arrest and imprison her!' 'Mr Minister there's a drought in the state, the people want relief they just cannot wait!'

Then a girl unloosed lank hair, which tumbled down her back from its roll, and, singing, suddenly pulled her blouse up over her head in one lithe movement.