unravellings

We were all alone, for Roger, who shared our walks usually, when he was not too busy, had just left for Berlin an hour earlier, on one of his patient unravellings of Carter's diplomatic tangles.

Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon 1918

My uncle Toby laid down his pipe as gently upon the fender, as if it had been spun from the unravellings of a spider’s web — — Let us go to my brother Shandy’s, said he.

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

My uncle Toby laid down his pipe as gently upon the fender, as if it had been spun from the unravellings of a spider’s web — — Let us go to my brother Shandy’s, said he.

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003