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Dangle

verb

(past & past part. dangled; pres. part. dangling)

Hang freely. Synonyms: drop, swing. "The light dropped from the ceiling"

Cause to dangle or hang freely.

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"Dangle" Quotes from Famous Books

... labyrinth of Gordian knots, and the flies (which are named Zulus) attached their barbs to my cap and adjacent bushes with well-nigh inextricable tenacity, until at length I had the bright idea to abbreviate the line, so that I could dangle my bait a foot or two above the surface of the water—where a salmon could easily obtain it by ...

— Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. • F. Anstey

... crash, O bells that clash Above the chimney-crowded plain, On wall and tower your voices dash, But never with the old refrain; In mart and temple gone astray! Ye dangle bells! Ye jangle bells! ...

— Complete Poetical Works of Bret Harte • Bret Harte

... which was the badge of the new and the unsophisticated comer. Emmy Lou had quickly learned that, and no one now rejoiced in a fuller assortment of soap, bottle, and rags than she, nor did a sponge longer dangle from the ...

— Emmy Lou - Her Book and Heart • George Madden Martin

... himself for being so weak. He had read stories of woman's subjugation of the famous and the strong and had wondered what sort of lunacy had overtaken such men. Here he was making an invalid's tantrums an excuse to give up his work and dangle at the skirts of an unknown girl; and he knew it was because of the mystery of her real identity and because his jealousy was afire on account of an uncertainty which was now aggravated by her ...

— Joan of Arc of the North Woods • Holman Day

... 'I shall dangle round you for a time, and when I come too near you'll chase me away until at last you'll make up your mind that you can stand it no longer, and will refuse ever to see ...

— Celibates • George Moore

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