A person who removes tangles

Usage examples of unraveler.

With her little finger the unraveler hit the space bar of her typewriter.

He twisted it uneasily on his finger, but the unraveler guessed his thoughts.

Or once, after a long interview, the unraveler had implied that he was finally satisfied, and that all the doctor would have to do was show up the next morning to pick up his visa.

Sure enough, Thanakar arrived at the customs house the next morning to find that the unraveler in charge of his case had been transferred.

On his seventh, the unraveler had actually picked it up and weighed it in his hand before replacing it with a sigh in its little metal stand.

This man was unusually tall, even for an unraveler, and he was dressed in a dilapidated uniform of yellow gauze.

Wearily the unraveler uncovered the file on his desk and removed three visa forms.

The papers on the desk were spattered with ink where the unraveler had dropped his rubber stamp.

Through the screen door he could see the unraveler at his desk, stretched back in his chair, his gaunt frame swathed in bandages.

The unraveler placed his pencil on his desk, carefully among the littered paper.

He could smell whiskey on the breath of the unraveler, though it was not yet noon.

The unraveler peeled them apart with his long fingers and held the seal up to the window.

Thanakar said nothing, only stared at the unraveler and rubbed his knee.

The unraveler looked at him steadily over the top of his papers, and then he laid them down.

With a sigh the unraveler took a single sheet of paper from an open drawer by his left hand and placed it on the desk.