"Uncouple" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... courtesy; *literature, learning For of morality he was the flow'r, As in his time, *but if* bookes lie. *unless And while this master had of him mast'ry, He made him so conning and so souple,* *subtle That longe time it was ere tyranny, Or any vice, durst in him uncouple.* *be let loose ...
— The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems • Geoffrey Chaucer
... any questions, did as he was told. Jenks ran through to the second car and contrived, after some delay caused by the roughness of the motion, to uncouple it from the third. This last car was now entirely loose from the train, and would have been left behind had it not been that the engine had already begun to go back. Faster and faster moved ...
— Chasing an Iron Horse - Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Civil War • Edward Robins |
