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Meanings of untie the knot in English

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Usage of untie the knot in English
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Lavinia saw she had nearly conquered and cried:-Letme untie the knot.
Madame Flirt / A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'
2
Why not untie the knot, he'd thought to himself, and float away.
Complete Books of Blood
3
Now I untie the knot of life and let my spirit free!
Cleopatra
4
His fingers were trembling and he thought he should never untie the knot.
Of Human Bondage
5
Warlord Hrath warned him, Don't untie the knot until dawn.
Chaosbound
6
Wood desperately struggled to untie the knot around his chest and then stood up.
Climbing Magazine
7
He was trying to untie the knot in his stomach.
Quantico
8
She sat up and slowly reached behind her head to untie the knot of her halter.
Cross My Heart, Hope to Die
9
The ordinary performances, however, may be accounted for without calling in god or demon to untie the knot.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 / A Magazine...
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Holding within my teeth the instrument thus obtained, I now proceeded to untie the knot of my cravat.
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
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Holding the instrument thus obtained within my teeth, I now proceeded to untie the knot of my cravat.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1
12
After which he raised himself upon his elbow and said, 'Life-life, is it so hard to untie the knot?'
The Seats of the Mighty, Volume 1
13
She drank coffee as she watched the forty-six-year-old woman who with clumsy fingers was trying to untie the knot on the ribbon.
The girl with the dragon tattoo
14
Approaching the cradle, he began with his thin fingers quickly to untie the knot in the rope by which the two were connected.
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
15
It is a fine remark of a Russian writer, that "Habits are a necklace of pearls: untie the knot, and the whole unthreads."
Self Help; with Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance
16
We must first untie the knots and weave the patterns into one.
A Prisoner in Fairyland (The Book That 'Uncle Paul' Wrote)
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