entwining

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They were a motley lot, he thought; the men with stolid, animal, unshaven faces; the women wriggling and self-conscious, twining and untwining their feet that hung four inches above the gravelled walks.

From The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million by Henry, O.

“Oh, my father!” said she, untwining herself from the colonel’s embrace, though she still nestled up close to him, as she stared at me shyly, with a puzzled look on her mignonne face.

From The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea by Austin, Henry

I do not ask to see The unveiling of thy purpose, or the shining Of future light or mysteries untwining; The promise-roll is all my own, Thy word is enough for me.

From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by Mudge, James

Philip nodded--a crimson spot in each cheek, his frail hands twining and untwining as he tried to compose himself.

From Lady Merton, Colonist by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

O why should fate sic pleasure have, Life’s dearest bands untwining?

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert