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• “I was lying on the sofa, with a book and a wine-glass, at about that time, when the door opened, and a gentleman in a stiff cravat, within a year or two on either side of thirty, entered, in his hat and gloves; walked up to the looking-glass; arranged his hair; took off his gloves; slowly produced a measure from the uttermost depths of his coat pocket; and requested me, in a languid tone, to "unfix" my straps.”

  American Notes

• “I was lying on the sofa, with a book and a wine-glass, at about that time, when the door opened, and a gentleman in a stiff cravat, within a year or two on either side of thirty, entered, in his hat and gloves; walked up to the looking-glass; arranged his hair; took off his gloves; slowly produced a measure from the uttermost depths of his coat-pocket; and requested me, in a languid tone, to 'unfix' my straps.”

  American Notes

• “He attempted to withdraw his hand but Carrigan maintained an unconscious clamp on it, which threw Daniel's free hand into dire confusion: it moved to unfix its imprisoned sibling, but, to its utter horror, found itself established atop Carrigan's wrist in a four-layer embrace that could only be described as intimate.”

  The Huffington Post: Peter Clothier: The Marriage Artist

• “He lowered his wheezy bulk onto his seat and worried about the ease with which a fixed race could unfix itself.”

  Fictionaut: The Elvis Latte

• ““And wherefore say, good brother, that I would unfix thy principles of belief?” answered Clement.”

  The Fair Maid of Perth

• “That only lasted a day and we had owr kwilts back… maybe the cheezes will unfix teh fix!”

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• “This gentleman, becoming transfixed at the same moment as his lady – mother, could not by any means unfix himself again, but stood stiffly staring at the whole composition with”

  Little Dorrit

• “He nearly succeeds in spoiling the impending marriage of Claudio and Hero by leading Claudio to believe, on the occasion of a masqued ball (2.1), that Don Pedro is wooing the lady for himself and not for Claudio; and then, undaunted by his final lack of success in this gambit, Don John proceeds to unfix the marriage once again by devising a tale about Hero's supposed sexual profligacy.”

  Shakespeare

• “Instead, we fix and unfix bayonets every ten minutes and make martial noises.”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 7, 1917

• “When Archimedes, or some other gentleman, said that he could unfix the earth had he a point of resistance for his lever, he illustrated, by a hypothesis of physics, the law of the generation of aristocracies.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843

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