intertwining

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There was not a breath of air stirring, and the flames shot straight up, murky red and clear yellow intertwisting, with here and there a sudden leaping tongue of violet white.

From The Backwoodsmen by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

His great lips present a cable-like aspect, formed by the intertwisting, slanting folds of large wrinkles.

From Moby Dick, or, the whale by Melville, Herman

But in men, gray knights o' the Order o' Scars, And brave boys bound by vows unto Mars, Nature grappled honor, intertwisting in the     strife:— But some cut the knot with a thoroughgoing     knife.

From John Marr and Other Poems by Melville, Herman

With or without a crown, or a double crown, is made by intertwisting the unlaid ends of a rope in a peculiar manner.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

The lime-trees on the lawn resembled this p. 129tree both in shape and in the manner of intertwisting their twigs, but they were much smaller, and not an impenetrable shade.

From Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 by Shairp, John Campbell