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  • Finally she pushed our hands angrily aside and completed the untanglement herself, revealing the scratched and smeared face of Mariana, the dancer.

    The Guest of Quesnay Booth Tarkington 1907

  • He went on to give briefly some of the details of Joe Ellison's story, never dreaming how he and Maggie were entangled in that story, nor how they were to be involved in its untanglement.

    Children of the Whirlwind Leroy Scott 1902

  • There is some subtle communication between the mind and the spiritual forces of achievement which renders it impossible for one to think for any great length of time on a tangled problem, without a method for its untanglement being suggested.

    Eclectic School Readings: Stories from Life Orison Swett Marden 1887

  • That monster can grow tentacles like Cthulhu ... slowly knotting beyond any untanglement by mankind, even by Man-Oba's planted manipulations.

    Entry Two - DF Lewis's MySpace Blog | 2010

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