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Inside, Maria Teresa was sitting on the couch, unplaiting and plaiting her hair, her face puffy from crying.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

I’m always fooling with my hair, plaiting it, unplaiting it, a nervous habit of mine that’s gotten worse here.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

His fingers worked nervously, plaiting and unplaiting the fringe.

From The Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson) by Sinclair, May

He looked down at Molly where she stood dumbly, her troubled eyes gazing at nothing and the fingers of one hand slowly plaiting and unplaiting a corner of her apron.

From The Heart of the Range by White, William Patterson

She leaned against the tree-hole plaiting and unplaiting chance-plucked grass stems.

From Traffics and Discoveries by Kipling, Rudyard