The teams are loosened from the waggons, "the boat is drawn upon the shore," the house door is closed, "and life is darken'd in the brain" of the sleeper.
"A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'"
Alfred Gatty
Rocks are loosened, and sometimes hurled down from cliff and mountain-side, and streams are occasionally dammed with the soil and rubbish pitched into them.
"Geology"
James Geikie
Then he loosened his shirt at the throat, rolled his sleeves above his elbows, and again sat down, this time facing the window, with his knees drawn up.
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey