Unloosing

Marriage is looked upon as primarily a civil contract, and, subject to certain conditions and to a proper provision for children, is dissoluble at the will of both contracting parties, the divorce, or 'unloosing', being formally and ceremoniously accomplished by going through certain portions of the marriage ceremony backwards. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)

I pushed open the front door, unloosing a flurry of bells. ❋ Elizabeth Chandler (2011)

A famously difficult knot around the yoke of an ancient wagon was undone here in 333 by Alexander, some say by unloosing and others by slashing through it with his sword. ❋ Philip Freeman (2011)

One night a slightly worse for wear Bob Howland staggered into the dormitory and knocked over the jars, unloosing the captives in the dark. ❋ JR. ROY MORRIS (2010)

Not when the stories suddenly begin repeating themselves, or lingering just a tad too much on little girls in their underthings, or unloosing mega-tonnage of political verbiage. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Consider the sentence "presuming that bonuses would elevate investment banker achievement only makes sense if you assume investment bankers have a hidden trove of skills and effort they are not unloosing only because they lack the proper incentives to do so." ❋ Unknown (2010)

"Presuming that merit pay alone would elevate student achievement makes sense if you assume teachers have a hidden trove of skills and effort they are not unloosing on their students only because they lack the proper incentives to do so," she writes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The habitual unloosing of millions of tons of lead bullets every year, which pollute those animals we eat as well as those who scavenge on our kills, threatens the healthy development of our own children in addition to poisoning our life support. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But ex-prosecutors run the risk of unloosing a whiff of personal fanaticism that makes some people uncomfortable. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Captain Jekyl, which I might be tempted to accede to, as one manner of unloosing this Gordian knot, and a compromise by which Miss ❋ Unknown (2008)

“Nay, if that be the case,” said Hayraddin, unloosing his hold, “go — and the devil, if there be one, go along with you!” ❋ Unknown (2008)

Wilde, though under no illusion as to the folly of the quite unselfish suit-at-law he had been persuaded to begin, nevertheless so miscalculated the force of the social vengeance he was unloosing on himself that he fancied it could be stayed by putting up the editor of The Saturday ❋ Unknown (2007)

At first I offered her the same help which I had always found it necessary to confer on the others; I began with unloosing for her each knotty point, but I soon discovered that such help was regarded by my new pupil as degrading; she recoiled from it with a certain proud impatience. ❋ Unknown (2006)

To our minds, these photographs don't show anything out of the ordinary well, maybe Dunham, Rinaldi and Perkins on the diving board are a little bizarre -- particularly Rinaldi, but maybe unloosing a thousand twenty-somethings at a resort where the liquor flows freely is a recipe for, ahm, robust celebration. ❋ Steve Hulett (2006)

No; there are other means of disengaging such ties, without unloosing the cords of life. ❋ Unknown (2004)

[Mr. Johnson]: Eddie, did you manage to turn in your essay to my inbox? Eddie: No, I didn't have time to write it. Mr. Johnson: That's not very good Eddie. Okay... Kurt, did you [turn it in]? Kurt: Yeah, [just a minute ago]. Mr. Johnson: Great! That is unloose, Kurt. ❋ Kurt Wiseman (2007)