1 Gerty Farish was not a close enough reader of character to disentangle the mixed threads of which Lily's philanthropy was woven.
2 "Permit me," he said bending over and disentangling the flounce.
3 "Hush," he said, disentangling her frantic grip and pulling a clean handkerchief from his pocket.
4 In the distance, a great white mass lazily rose, and rising higher and higher, and disentangling itself from the azure, at last gleamed before our prow like a snow-slide, new slid from the hills.
5 It is probable that he, also, was disentangling from amid the vague ideas of a poor man, ignorant of everything, something excessive.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN 6 The traces were disentangled, and a few slaps on the nose forced the skewbald to draw back a little; after which the teams were straightened out and separated.
7 Having disentangled his leg, he rose.
8 She told him that her only hope of getting their affairs disentangled now lay in his marrying Julie Karagina.
9 After a long spell of effort, I succeeded in getting my cart righted, my oxen disentangled, and again yoked to the cart.