She created a rather Gordian woven fabric for her grandmother. From LearnThat.org.
It seemed as though a kind of Gordian knot had been tied. From Wordnik.com. [Rudin] Reference
The table below, taken mainly from the "Gordian," illustrates this. From Wordnik.com. [Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer] Reference
Analysts now say that veteran organizations such as Gordian Knot should be able to survive the current crisis. From Wordnik.com. [How London] Reference
"We were charged with looking at what so many people call the Gordian knot of conflicting constitutional amendments, and we didn't do that. From Wordnik.com. [Greeley Tribune - Top Stories] Reference
That was really the only way to hack the Gordian knot. From Wordnik.com. [Planet of the Damned] Reference
Guides 'subaltern galloped off and cut the Gordian knot. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Guides] Reference
We thus cut the Gordian knot, and were on the right track. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883] Reference
I'm going to cut the d-- d Gordian knot and get out of this!. From Wordnik.com. [Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life] Reference
Reed, however, had made up his mind to cut the Gordian knot. From Wordnik.com. [The United States Since the Civil War] Reference
Sir Paul was, indeed, confronted by a very Gordian knot of problems. From Wordnik.com. [High Noon A New Sequel to 'Three Weeks' by Elinor Glyn] Reference
"Don't you think that Gordian knot had better be cut at once?" advised. From Wordnik.com. [Sweetapple Cove] Reference
Second, it is doubtful that Obama has it in him to cut the Gordian knot. From Wordnik.com. [Gates on Iran: Who's Crying Now?] Reference
That Hippolyta is as much a Gordian knot from this side as from the other?. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
The succession to the throne is a Gordian knot, to be cut only by the sword. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
In other words, Dems won't reach for the sword that can cut this Gordian Knot. From Wordnik.com. [Dems caught in trap of their own making?] Reference
Now, we have sought to end this -- or to untie this Gordian knot at Camp David. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 31, 2002] Reference
But for the reformers, Indonesia's legacy of corruption and cronyism is a Gordian knot. From Wordnik.com. [A Bloody Christmas] Reference
The Iranian challenge is not a Gordian knot that can be sliced through in one bold stroke. From Wordnik.com. [The Hand That Feeds the Fire] Reference
Not long after Brunhilda and Gordian went to live in Warwick, their little son Guy was born. From Wordnik.com. [Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)] Reference
Estates cut the Gordian Knot by throwing the King's lieutenants out of a window on the Hradšany. From Wordnik.com. [From a Terrace in Prague] Reference
"Just about," Elephant answered; while Nat nodded his head as the easiest way to cut a Gordian knot. From Wordnik.com. [The Airplane Boys among the Clouds or, Young Aviators in a Wreck] Reference
The Gordian knot was referred to him, and with characteristic abruptness he promised to cut it at once. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876] Reference
In a great battle the King of Northumbria was defeated and one of his lords, Gordian, lost all he owned. From Wordnik.com. [Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12)] Reference
It was the little Aurore herself whose unconscious hand severed the Gordian knot of the family difficulties. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861] Reference
Messengers were sent forth to seek the needful instruments, while I proceeded to cut another Gordian knot. From Wordnik.com. [A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil] Reference
Donatus, bishop of Arezzo, and Hilarinus, a hermit, suffered about the same time; also Gordian, a Roman magistrate. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
The umpire cut the Gordian knot by sending Curry back to third, where he and Mackay chaffed each other and the game went on. From Wordnik.com. [Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour] Reference
The deadlock thus threatened to continue indefinitely, and the American government thereupon determined to cut the Gordian knot. From Wordnik.com. [Santo Domingo A Country with a Future] Reference
The "Liberal Century" after having accumulated an infinity of Gordian knots, sought to cut them in the hecatomb of the World War. From Wordnik.com. [Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado] Reference
To say that he is a Genius, and the Prince of Eccentrics, is perhaps the only way to cut the Gordian knot of criticism in his instance. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864] Reference
Of course, you could cut the Gordian knot and make him cut himself in two, but that would kinda defeat the purpose. written at 8: 59 p.m. From Wordnik.com. [j-gan Diary Entry] Reference
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