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Definition of Raveled
1. ravel [v] - See also: ravel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Raveled
Literary usage of Raveled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Wandering Jew (and Jewess)by R. D. Manning, Eugene Sue by R. D. Manning, Eugene Sue (2003)
"RODIN (CONTINUED) ~ humble himself to collect, as I have done, the thousand and
one small threads which belong to the raveled skein of this intricate plot! ..."
2. The Ohio Educational Monthly: A Journal of Education by Ohio Education Association (1860)
"The facility with which seams formed by this stitch may be raveled, ... A seam
having been formed, it may be raveled like a stocking by pulling the end of ..."
3. The Law of Personal Injuries in Mines: Including All Character of Personal by Edward Joseph White (1905)
"1 "An instruction tha', even if the jury believe that the rope used by the
plaintiff at the time of his injury was raveled, yet if they further believe that ..."
4. A Book about the Table by John Cordy Jeaffreson (1875)
"raveled cheat, the usual! bread of fairly prosperous citizens, was made of meal,
... On leaving the oven, the loaf of raveled cheat weighed sixteen ounces, ..."
5. The Ohio Magazine by Webster Perit Huntington (1906)
""but I slept well and sleep, as the bard says, 'knits up the raveled sleeve of
... and I have many raveled sleeves." "1 don't see that yuh sleeves raveled. ..."
6. The Whole Works of the Late Reverend and Learned Mr. Thomas Boston, Minister by Thomas Boston (1849)
"Your own life is a raveled business, much disorder has been there ; ye have ...
The way of the generation ye live in is a raveled business, a conspiracy ..."
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