What is "untwist"

Usage examples of "untwist".

She seated them graciously, and had a servant bring wine in real glass goblets, but she was distracted as she and Dannyan chatted, and all the time, she twisted and untwisted a silk handkerchief between her fingers.

My line was forty yards of untwisted silk upon a multiplying reel.

Mike left freeze, reached up with a pair of needlenose pliers and began untwisting the screws holding the grating above him.

Varian swore she could feel the nerves at the base of her spine untwist.

Asterie failed to notice, and turned to retreat across the room, so that the peplos untwisted part way, then dropped loosely about her feet.

You've never suffered, the dead stare of the eyes was saying, you've never felt anything, because only to suffer is to feel—there's no such thing as joy, there's only pain and the absence of pain, only pain and the zero, when one feels nothing—I suffer, I'm twisted by suffering, I'm made of undiluted suffering, that's my purity, that's my virtue—and yours, you the untwisted one, you the uncomplaining, yours is to relieve me of my pain—cut your unsuffering body to patch up mine, cut your unfeeling soul to stop mine from feeling—and we'll achieve the ultimate ideal, the triumph over life, the zero!

As he untwisted it, compressed air hissed out: all the air that had been between the jar and the cumber-quark's outer sphere was squeezed in there.

Teroro held a small length of sennit, which he twisted and untwisted, saying slowly, "I think the High Priest intends to offer our king as a supreme sacrifice to Oro.

Frowning, she replaced the ball, then untwisted the generator wires from the sparking rods and connected the teles to the rods.

I bent a link by main force and untwisted the chain that had hampered me about the ankles, and sprang to my feet, with the chain in my hand.

Just as Devin felt obliged to caution Rovigo, the tavern-owner gave a jerky, convulsive nod and the merchant untwisted the collar a little.

He untwisted and tried to shape the wire, but his hands were trembling.

Another sharp ox-bow untwisted before them at Greenwich, along with more fierce currents that set the barge moving from side to side and the barge-master cursing all over again.

If it was not the cable untwisting, and if it proved to be not some trick of the mounting above-then what?

You hang in the water, suspended by the ankles, your only motion a slow twisting and untwisting on that rope, turning your body from breasts to feet away from and then back, towards the castle, your head, shoulders and hair submerged in the moat's quiet circumference.