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Definition of Ravelled
1. ravel [v] - See also: ravel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ravelled
Literary usage of Ravelled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"The ravelled »leave of ear» Shakespeare: Macbeth). ... as it comes from »leave,
ravelled thread, ..."
2. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"... The early evening with her misty dyes 200 Smooths off the ravelled edges of
the Relieves the distant with her cooler sky, And tones the landscape down, ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Road Congress by American Highway Association (1914)
"Colonel Stevens is not here, but his paper on "The Treatment of Wornout and
ravelled Macadam Surfaces" will be discussed by Hon. ..."
4. An Account of the Life and Writings of Sir Thomas Craig of Riccarton by Patrick Fraser Tytler (1823)
"He is not mentioned here, that we may retrace the steps of abler authors in
depicting the ravelled story of his life, or dwell upon the humiliating lesson ..."
5. The Royal Exile: Or, Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of Her Majesty by John Adolphus (1821)
"... that was all I expected, as 11 ravelled incognito. " CAROLINE, Princes» of
Wales." After a most fatiguing journey her majesty reached Leghorn, ..."
6. Samuel Rutherford and Some of His Correspondents: Lectures Delivered in St by Alexander Whyte (1894)
"Rutherford told young Earlston how terribly he had ' ravelled his own hesp' in
the days of his youth, and he tells another of his correspondents that after ..."
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