1 There was a circumstance which at first sight seemed to entangle his delirious but still methodical scheme.
2 She would not endeavour to entangle the old gentleman in a sentimental attachment which might deliver him over to his enemy.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 15. A Retrospection 3 Broken oars and floating thwarts entangle them, and the ebbing wave sucks their feet away.
4 A little peasant girl, all entangled with the horses and the postilions at the end of the vehicle, was offering flowers to the travellers.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—SOME PETTICOAT 5 Once entangled, hope for nothing more.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAI... 6 The passer-by who got entangled from the Rue Saint-Denis in the Rue de la Chanvrerie beheld it gradually close in before him as though he had entered an elongated funnel.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION 7 They were at the top of a wall, and they thundered point-blank upon the soldiers tripping over the dead and wounded and entangled in the escarpment.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXI—THE HEROES 8 The assailants, rushing into the wine-shop, their feet entangled in the panels of the door which had been beaten in and flung on the ground, found not a single combatant there.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXII—FOOT TO FOOT 9 On scrutinizing the solitary waste on the side where the forest is thoroughly entangled and wild, Boulatruelle suddenly caught sight of his man.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS... 10 Bonacieux, the respectable martyr of the political and amorous intrigues which entangled themselves so nicely together at this gallant and chivalric period.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 13 MONSIEUR BONACIEUX 11 Not seldom in the rapid vicissitudes of the chase, this natural line, with the maternal end loose, becomes entangled with the hempen one, so that the cub is thereby trapped.
12 The Pequod had now swept so nigh to the stranger, that Stubb vowed he recognised his cutting spade-pole entangled in the lines that were knotted round the tail of one of these whales.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 91. The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud. 13 My cart was upset and shattered, my oxen were entangled among the young trees, and there was none to help me.
14 He did not use care to avoid trees and branches, and his forgotten feet were constantly knocking against stones or getting entangled in briers.
15 The torn bodies expressed the awful machinery in which the men had been entangled.