snarles

Aye but mine was written years ago and what you allude to the other day — now if you were a true Critick i.e. troubled with a disorder calld the snarles, you would, (had Davy been publishd) have asserted that Robin thieved from David.

Letter 247 2009

Our college customs allow not that: and I should account myself most happy, if I might change with you; for I have always observed the thread of life to be like other threads or skeins of silk, full of snarles and encumbrances.

The Life of Mr. George Herbert. Paras. 1-49 1909

Our College customs allow not that: and I should account myself most happy, if I might change with you; for I have always observed the thread of life to be like other threads or skeins of silk, full of snarles and incumbrances.

Lives of John Donne Henry Wotton Rich'd Hooker George Herbert etc Walton, Izaak 1898

He has pleaded before Aix Parlements (to get back his wife); the public gathering on roofs, to see since they could not hear: "the clatter-teeth (claque-dents)!" snarles singular old Mirabeau; discerning in such admired forensic eloquence nothing but two clattering jaw-bones, and a head vacant, sonorous, of the drum species.

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

Our College customs allow not that: and I should account myself most happy, if I might change with you; for I have always observed the thread of life to be like other threads or skeins of silk, full of snarles and incumbrances.

Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C, Volume 2 Izaak Walton 1638