Solve a knot

Usage examples of untie.

Hetherton liked being late at church, and so, notwithstanding that the Colonel had worked himself into a tempest of excitement, had tied and untied her bonnet-strings half a dozen times, changed her rich basquine for a thread lace mantilla, and then, just as the bell from St.

Then he untied the rope from around his waist and dropped one end back down to Brast and hissed for him to climb up.

The musty smell of overwear rose up from them and our noses wrinkled as we untied his bootlaces.

I decided that even the rankest of amateur detectives needs a stooge to untie him - go on and laugh at me, if you want to, for even attempting to detect!

Kara, her black hair rumpled down her back, flushed with anger and working at untying and ungagging her mother.

Lieutenant Malstrom returned my salute in offhand fashion, his eye on the suited sailor untying our forward safety line from the shoreside stanchion.

I untied the nearest, Showman, and led him quietly up the yard and into the van.

It is a case of the resistance of Gordian knots, which not even the very spinstress who fastened them is capable of untying.

Luken untied his ankles, and hauled him off the strich, while Sir talked to the priests.

He was upset about being kidnapped and wanted to be untied when I got here.

Lissianna on his return from Mexico if they untied him now, then promptly rethought the decision.

Then she felt her limbs being quickly untied, and the blindfold was taken away.

He was carried to the bed and placed on his back on the crimson brocade coverlet, four guards firmly holding him down while four others untied his feet and, slipping his shoes off, secured his ankles to the bed posts with thick, braided silk cord.

Restrained by the weight of four guardsmen, his wrists were then untied and, after forcing his arms above his head, he was bound to the headboard with knots pulled so tight, there was no question of him gaining his freedom.

She watched as the servant untied her one leg, and then, as she nibbled, deftly surrounded her other ankle with the soft, slick satin bonds before she untied the ragged shirtsleeve.