It was with a sigh of relief, and a sudden unstringing of the bow, that he heard outside- "Mr. Gard!"
"A Maid of the Silver Sea"
John Oxenham
I had a very sweet emotion of self-pity, which took the sting out of my painful discovery that the orchestra of my pleasing life-entertainment was unstringing its instruments, and the lights were being extinguished,-that the show was almost over.
"The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
She had been so well grounded in French and Italian, that when she came to do the exercises set her, she found them so easy that she wrote out at once those intended for the whole quarter, keeping them strung together in her desk, and unstringing them as required.
"Maria Edgeworth"
Helen Zimmern