unravelment

Example Sentences

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"What is puzzling you, Miss Kellett?" broke in Hankes; "I wish I could be of any assistance to its unravelment."

From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Lever, Charles James

Thus it will be more or less perfect, according 265 Kk as its exposition shall be more or less clear, its plot more or less ingenious, its unravelment more or less striking.

From A Treatise on the Art of Dancing by Gallini, Giovanni-Andrea

The plot is drawn with consummate skill—not in the sense of a Gaborian-like unravelment of mystery, but in its organic, natural, inevitable development, and in the abiding interest of its evolution.

From The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin by Muirhead, James F. (James Fullarton)

I am, as you may all know, a writer of stories which depend for their success upon the creation and unravelment of criminological mysteries.

From The Clue of the Twisted Candle by Wallace, Edgar

They unfold the action, and conduct it by insensible degrees to an ingenious conclusion: this is what is called the unravelment.

From A Treatise on the Art of Dancing by Gallini, Giovanni-Andrea