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

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

Ch'u-tung, traveling not by the main road, but by a steep path intertwisting through almost impossible places, and requiring four times the amount of physical exertion.

Across China on Foot Edwin John Dingle 1926

By intertwisting the threads of the chain or warp at the back, a way is found to avoid the slits in weaving that are left to be sewn together with the needle in all old work.

The Tapestry Book Helen Churchill Hungerford Candee 1905

Her raven hair was streaming down from her coral crown, and intertwisting itself with her earrings of pearl, flowed gracefully back over her jetty robe in wild and unshorn luxuriance.

North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896

Maxine was standing in the middle of the room when Jacqueline returned; her body was still quivering, her nostrils fluttering, her fingers twisting and intertwisting in an excess of emotion; and at sight of the familiar little figure, words broke from her with the fierceness of a freed torrent.

Max Katherine Cecil Thurston 1893

Very beautiful, calm and restful at this hour was "Our Lady's Chapel," with its high, dark intertwisting arches, mutilated statues, and ancient tattered battle-banners hanging from the black roof and swaying gently with every little breath of wind.

The Master-Christian Marie Corelli 1889

The circumstance, _e. g._, of the birk and the briar springing from the graves of true lovers and intertwisting their branches occurs in the ballads of "Fair Margaret and Sweet William," "Lord Thomas and Fair Annet," "Lord Lovel," "Fair Janet," and many others.

A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886

Our Mr. Verplanck, however, thinks there are some passages which relish strongly of an earlier time; while again there are others that with the prevailing sweetness of the whole have such an intertwisting of nerve and vigour, and such an energetic compactness of thought and imagery, mingled occasionally with the deeper tonings of

Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters Hudson, H N 1872

Rhoda tightened her intertwisting fingers across under her bosom.

Rhoda Fleming — Volume 4 George Meredith 1868

So intensely was she moved by her intertwisting reflections that in an access of bodily fever she stood up and moved before the glass, to behold the image of the woman who could be the victim of these childish emotions: and no wonderful contrast struck her eyes; she appeared to herself as poor and small as they.

Beauchamp's Career — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868