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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Entangled
 
  Entangled like vines.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Entangled in words as a bird in lime-twigs. The more he struggles the more belimed.
            —Thomas Hobbes		  2
  In her faire lookes were his thoughts intangled, like birds of canarie, that have fallen into a silken net.
            —John Lyly		  3
  Entangled … like a mouse catched in a trap.
            —François Rabelais		  4
 
 
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