As they forced their way into the thicket, following a narrow and tangled trail, Robyn heard a whimpering noise behind her.

Full speed, full out, dodging the busy herds of robots, picking his tunnels and turnings and movements to leave the most tangled trail possible for his pursuers.

While I was crouching somewhere or taking a tangled trail that would keep me hidden at all times, Bellamy or one of his men was taking the shortest, straightest route to my car.

Twice more they stopped to produce a confusing set of images, a tangled trail, crossing a deep stream once, doubling back twice at right angles, choosing difficult, rocky terrain for their passage.

In the meantime, look at it this way: we are not discussing the tangled trail of conflicting stories being told by Marie Reine Le Gougne.

Stumbling along the tangled trail of those ahead a dozen heavily laden blacks who, from fatigue or sickness, had dropped behind were being prodded by the black soldiers of the rear guard, kicked when they fell, and then roughly jerked to their feet and hustled onward.

Disarmingly, he appreciates Roosevelt "at his best" running rings around adversaries with "a tangled trail of jokes, strained analogies, half-truths and, if necessary, outright falsehoods."

Then his gaze clouded as he cast back over his tangled trail.

But at least the hound did not bay again on the tangled trail they left, and they hoped that the trap and the clak-claks had put that monster permanently out of service.

She left several of them in her trail, intricately wound and tangled.