"All of a sudden Calliope unties her apron.
"Friendship Village"
Zona Gale
This remarkable theory cuts, rather than unties, such knots as are above noted, and carries with it to most minds a strange and improbable air.
"The Three Additions to Daniel, A Study"
William Heaford Daubney
And suddenly unties the poke, Which out of it sent such a smoke, As ready was them all to choke, So grievous was the pother; So that the knights each other lost, And stood as still as any post; Tom Thumb nor Tomalin could boast Themselves of any other.
"The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream'"
Compiled by Frank Sidgwick