"Straighten out" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... we can never Straighten out life's tangled skein, Why should we, in vain endeavor, Guess and guess and guess again? Life's a pudding full of plums; Care's a canker that benumbs. Wherefore waste our elocution On impossible solution? Life's ...
— Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs • W. S. Gilbert
... girl's mother was what we call an outcast. Can you reasonably look for morality of any sort in the offspring of such an infamous union? You do not answer, because you cannot! I defy any of your Christians to straighten out this matter. The viciousness of most children is their only endowment, unless we add the poverty, the diseases and the hopelessness that go with it. Now to consider her environments and her temptations in that store. She is ...
— For Gold or Soul? - The Story of a Great Department Store • Lurana W. Sheldon
... stay that way long, Panchita," he said. "You'll be on the job soon now. And what I've come to tell you will help on the good work. I've got a story for you that'll straighten out all the creases and bring you up on your feet better than ...
— Treasure and Trouble Therewith - A Tale of California • Geraldine Bonner
... something of his unhappy situation—not all, it is true, but enough to enable the other to see how grave it was, as much from what he inferred as from what Rimmon explained. He even began to hope again. If the Doctor would undertake to straighten out the complications he might yet pull through. To his dismay, this phase of the matter did not appear to present itself to the old man's mind. It was the sin that he had committed that ...
— Gordon Keith • Thomas Nelson Page
... Mrs. Wharton answer?" Esther queried, turning from her own trunk and beginning to straighten out the ...
— The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World • Margaret Vandercook
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