Twined

Examples

• It had the curves and indentations in it still, where it had been twined and bound. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• She sat down again, her face flushed deeply, and her hands twisted and twined together in her lap. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• She raised them up, looked earnestly at them, twined them around her thin fingers, and looked from time to time, anxiously at her father. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• He opened it, and a lock of long, curling hair fell from it, and twined about his fingers. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Thrown out on the winds it became twined in with them, and with them it flew away. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• She twined herself round the heart of Miss Crawley. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• She is in a gorgeous oriental costume; the black braided locks are twined with innumerable jewels; her dress is covered over with gold piastres. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• While so held a needle with its coarse thread was forced through the broom above the binding and the cord twined around it. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He twined his hands in his hair; and, with a loud scream, rolled grovelling upon the floor: his eyes fixed, and the foam covering his lips. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• There were actually tears in the bold woman's eyes, as the soft-headed and soft-hearted girl twined her arms about her neck. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Without speaking, without smiling, without seeming to recognise in me a human being, he only twined my waist with his arm and riveted me to his side. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

Edited by Augustus