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Inextricable

inextricable

adjective in·ex·tri·ca·ble \ˌi-nik-ˈstri-kə-bəl, (ˌ)i-ˈnek-(ˌ)stri-\
: impossible to separate : closely joined or related
a : incapable of being disentangled or untied
b : not capable of being solved

A Rose for Emily By William Faulkner Final Part 2nd to Last Paragraph

For a long while we just stood there, looking down at the profound and fleshless grin. The body had apparently once lain in the attitude of an embrace, but now the long sleep that outlasts love, that conquers even the grimace of love, had cuckolded him. What was left of him, rotted beneath what was left of the nightshirt, had become inextricable from the bed in which he lay; and upon him and upon the pillow beside him lay that even coating of the patient and biding dust.

Word Reused
What was left of him, rotted beneath what was left of the nightshirt, had become difficult to move from the bed in which he lay…

 

Tumultuously

Tumultuously – Adjective – loud, excited, and emotional. via Merriam-Webster

Encountered in the short story “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin,  paragraph ten, sentence one.

“Now her bosom rose and fell tumultuously. She was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching to possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with her will–as powerless as her two white slender hands would have been. When she abandoned herself a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips. She said it over and over under her breath: “free, free, free!””

The word helps describe how she couldn’t hold her true feelings about her husband any more and it figuratively escaped from within her.