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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
ravel .
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Examples
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Even a reader who loves salt marshes, as I do, and who wants to lose herself in Mr. Lender's tender Âappreciation of them may find herself, instead, lost in the sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care.
Coastal Disturbances Alexandra Mullen 2011
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'Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care' is, indeed, in a careworn world, one of the chief of blessings.
The Map of Life Conduct and Character William Edward Hartpole Lecky 1870
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'Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care,
A Lecture on the Preservation of Health Thomas Garnett 1784
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