"Unhook" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hugging her stocking, which Ben lifted her up to unhook from the big nail, "Santy did come, he did!" and then she spun around in the middle of the floor, not stopping to look ...
— Five Little Peppers And How They Grew • Margaret Sidney
... along the brink. You must learn to raise your hand at the end of each throw, and lift the flies clean over the land-weeds: or you will lose time, and frighten all the fish, by crawling to the bank to unhook them. Believe me, one of the commonest mistakes into which young anglers fall is that of fishing in 'skipjack broad;' in plain English, in mid-stream, where few fish, and those little ones, are to be caught. Those who wish for large fish ...
— Prose Idylls • Charles Kingsley
... rose from his chair and turned to unhook a framed map that hung upon the wall. I got the impression that the movement was made with the deliberate ...
— Three John Silence Stories • Algernon Blackwood
... three frigates. As they had not struck their colours, we did them that favour, and made prizes of them. There were also some pictures of grim-looking saints, which one of the sailors was endeavouring to unhook until another called out, "Let them alone, Jack, they'll only bring you bad luck," on which he desisted. This church was very dirty, and the ceilings of it filled with cobwebs; the priests had taken everything from the altar, ...
— A Sailor of King George • Frederick Hoffman
... Danforth," he said, raising his voice to be heard above the pounding roar of the wheels. "You're the youngest and lightest: get down on the 1010's brake-beam and unhook those chains." ...
— The Grafters • Francis Lynde
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