It was, therefore, not her own age alone as affected by its immediate calamities that lay with such weight upon Joanna's mind, but her own age as one section in a vast mysterious drama, unweaving through a century back, and drawing nearer continually to some dreadful crisis.
"Journeys Through Bookland Volume Four"
Charles H. Sylvester
The soul of a philosopher will reason in quite another way; she will not ask philosophy to release her in order that when released she may deliver herself up again to the thraldom of pleasures and pains, doing a work only to be undone again, weaving instead of unweaving her Penelope's web.
"Phaedo The Last Hours Of Socrates"
Plato
His argument is a little web of sophistry, not worth unweaving here.
"The Grammar of English Grammars"
Goold Brown