Hair twined around her fingers. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used with object) : to twine a wreath. ,He twined his fingers in his hair. ,She twined her arms about the sculpture and carried it away. ,They twined the arch with flowers. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : Strangling vines twined about the tree. From Dictionary.com.
A green sword twined among. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-05-01] Reference
And twined it round the serpent's glittering neck. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
He twined the rope around his legs, inched higher. From Wordnik.com. [It Could Be Anything] Reference
Round his legs, like a ribbon, it twined its black ring. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
Nas þe þwang noht brod bote ase hit were a twined þred. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts] Reference
"I am," is expressed by a laurel leaf twined around the bouquet. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
"No," came the decided answer, as Wyndham twined his arm in Paul's. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
Then went Paris to Œnone, and he twined his arms around her and said. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
I was still uppermost, and though he twined and twisted like a serpent. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
Pure in their twined silence, they were freed from embroidered fantasies. From Wordnik.com. [Lake Chelan] Reference
In his hands, which lay twined on his knees, were a lot of little metallic oblongs. From Wordnik.com. [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference
Jeff had slid down the roof, and had twined his legs around the small brick chimney. From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton's Secret] Reference
Look how queerly it is made, with chiffon twined in; that's what makes it so becoming. From Wordnik.com. [Sarah's School Friend] Reference
Hanging head down, his legs twined round a bail, Spurling worked rapidly with both hands. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
Mary twined a beautiful wreath of white clematis around the dark tresses of Isabel's hair. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
Scarcely was the wreath twined when something began which had never been experienced before. From Wordnik.com. [Roumanian Fairy Tales] Reference
Thin streamers of fog twined up from the earth as if they grew from seeds planted by the storm. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
Madame Desvarennes, between Jeanne and Micheline, had her arms twined round the two young girls. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The strong young voice repeated the commanding words; the lovely flower-twined head bent forward. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
The long net twined, snakelike, round him, and he too descended into the bowels of the infernal machine. From Wordnik.com. [The Wizard of the Sea A Trip Under the Ocean] Reference
The ivy twined in tangled masses round the tackling, and bright garlands shone, like jeweled crowns, on every oar-pin. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
The green vine twined and peeped in and out under the round brim and the ribbon sat in a prim bow beneath her pretty chin. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
When they were near each other the adder twined itself around the neck of the halcyon as if it were embracing it tenderly. From Wordnik.com. [The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World] Reference
The graceful figure with a rope of pearls twined in the dark hair was to remain in James Darlington's memory for many a year. From Wordnik.com. [Frontier Boys in Frisco] Reference
Hospital, with a heap of flowers between them, out of which they twined a world of bouquets, fairy garlands, and pretty crowns. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
They twined themselves into tumultuous knots, writhed fiercely and uplifted a hundred hissing heads without opening their eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference
He was represented by wings on his hat, and sandals, and usually carrying a wand, or staff, with two serpents twined around it. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
When their comrades came, they found their corpses stark and gashed; but round both wrists of every British hero was twined the red thread!. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
Before the end of the first week Crothers had noticed how lovely Cynthia's shining braids were as they twined around her pretty, bent head. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
And the tendrils of her affection, wrenched from their accustomed hold, had twined themselves about this grey-haired, blue-eyed man, set so apart by every. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
And he broke the bands, as a man would break a thread of tow twined with spittle, when it smelleth the fire: so it was not known wherein his strength lay. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 07: Judges The Challoner Revision] Reference
It seemed their clothing melted away until there was nothing left but the silk of his skin, the whisper of his lips against hers, the solidarity of twined fingers. From Wordnik.com. [Paper Hearts] Reference
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