Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Entangled

Entangled like vines.
—Anonymous

Entangled in words as a bird in lime-twigs. The more he struggles the more belimed.
—Thomas Hobbes

In her faire lookes were his thoughts intangled, like birds of canarie, that have fallen into a silken net.
—John Lyly

Entangled … like a mouse catched in a trap.
—François Rabelais