What is "unloose"

Usage examples of "unloose".

For one awful instant they were suspended above disaster, the keel of the boat riding the force of the torrent like a reversed magnet, unloosed, unmoored, out of control, the sharp spray in their faces, Henry shouting out encouragement to the straining motors, grinning Jalong in the bow with a plastic bucket bailing like mad, the bouncing Copelands trying not to glance too often at one another with the blanched appeal of stricken airline passengers, the fragile longboat, as if responding to psychic entreaty, moved forward an inch, another inch, then, in one sweet dizzying lift, rose up and over the crest of the falls onto a slick moving sheet of unruffled stream, and they looked around at themselves and they laughed.

Den de men are unloose, and dey all go away, for Mathurin tell dem to go quick.

Worshipping power and force and money-mastery as an elderly nerveridden woman might worship youthful physical energy, the comfortable, plump-bodied cafe-oracle had jested and gibed at the ambitions of the Balkan kinglets and their peoples, had unloosed against them that battery of strange lip-sounds that a Viennese employs almost as an auxiliary language to express the thoughts when his thoughts are not complimentary.

Of the desire of a young man for a young woman, as well as of the reverse instance, I am not now speaking, for of such tendresses I am wary, seeing that I have been too unhappy in my life to have been able ever to see in such affection a single spark of truth, but rather a lying pretence in which sensuality, connubial relations, money, and the wish to bind hands or to unloose them have rendered feeling such a complex affair as to defy analysis.

It was Ibn Asl, who came with a clay lamp to see that we were still safe in his possession, and our bonds not unloosed in some miraculous way.

He unloosed the half hitches that held it to the cleat, threw off all but one figure-eight turn, and let the anchor line run out slowly.

Money was poured out like water, and it has been said that the entire floodtide of poison, witchcraft and diabolism was unloosed to attain the ends of that marvellous beauty (so Mme.

That inning he unloosed a few more kinks in his arm and he tried some new balls upon the Bisons.

She puts me in my bed, unlooses the curtains—now the night might be any night, any at all.

Twisted wreckage fell into the city from the battle area, great cruisers reduced to grotesque metal heaps, bent and burned and battered out of all semblance to a ship, scorched and crushed and flattened by the energy unloosed in the height of battle.

Startled, he backed away and the little burro, cocking her head to glance backward at him, unloosed a playful kick that caught him in the knee.

He held his energy rifle at hip level and unloosed a volley of bolts into the smoke.

He unloosed his pick, found a piton and started hammering it in while Zainal removed the coil from his shoulder to rig it for the drop.

The arch of Time will be broken if the Creator seeks to strike through it-and then Lord Foul the Despiser, Satansheart and Soulcrusher, Corruption and Render, will be unloosed upon the universe!

Had my enemy gained the white wild magic gold, he would have unloosed himself from the Earth-destroyed it so that he might hurl himself against me.