1 Gerty knelt beside her, waiting, with the patience born of experience, till this gust of misery should loosen fresh speech.
2 She had not minded; she would loosen the matrimonial tension and be a fanciful girl for a time.
3 I'm willing to be family physician and priest and lawyer and plumber and wet-nurse, but I draw the line at making Dave loosen up on money.
4 That summer at Grand Isle she began to loosen a little the mantle of reserve that had always enveloped her.
5 All the tearing emotion of the last few hours seemed to fall away from her like a somber, uncomfortable garment, which she had but to loosen to be rid of.
6 And nails for loosen'd spears, and thongs for shields provide.
7 At last the keeper heaved the back of the chair off the ground and, with an instantaneous push of his foot, tried to loosen the wheels.
8 Miss Dartle suddenly kneeled down before it, and began to loosen the dress.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 56. THE NEW WOUND, AND THE OLD 9 However, when she drew near the limit and her friends began to loosen their tongues about her, she silenced them by marrying Mr. Kearney, who was a bootmaker on Ormond Quay.
10 Scarlett gave her a shove and loosened her grip.
11 He sat beside her, holding her hand until sleep loosened her grasp.
12 All the exquisite influences of the hour trembled in their veins, and drew them to each other as the loosened leaves were drawn to the earth.
13 While she spoke she had loosened the string from the parcel in her hand, and now she drew forth a letter which she laid on the table between Miss Bart and herself.
14 The name, as Gerty saw with a clutch at the heart, had loosened the springs of self-pity in her friend's dry breast, and tear by tear Lily poured out the measure of her anguish.
15 Through the haze of her cigarette smoke she continued to gaze meditatively at Miss Bart, who, having dismissed her maid, sat before the toilet-table shaking out over her shoulders the loosened undulations of her hair.