disembroil
Example Sentences
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He was proceeding throughout on the ground of the immense difference—difficult indeed as it might have been to disembroil in this young person HER race- quality.
From The Golden Bowl — Volume 1 by Henry James
It seemed to him that he himself knew too much to imagine Morgan’s simplicity and too little to disembroil his tangle.
From The Pupil by Henry James
Let him but decently disembroil himself, Scramble from out the scrape nor move the mud,— We solid ones may risk a finger-stretch!”
From Dramatic Technique by George Pierce Baker
He was proceeding throughout on the ground of the immense difference—difficult indeed as it might have been to disembroil in this young person HER race-quality.
From The Golden Bowl — Complete by Henry James
She’d break her mother’s heart, she’d deserve her father’s curse, and p. 123she’d get him, Jackson, into a pickle from which no human power might ever disembroil him.
From Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales by Henry James
