Mazes
[meɪziz]
Examples
- Then does she twirl and twine, a pastoral nymph of good family, through the mazes of the dance. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Oh, my worldly friends, pursuing the phantom, Pleasure, through the guilty mazes of Dissipation, how easy it is to be happy, if you will only be good! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- At first the tripping measure lifted my spirit with it, and for a moment my eyes gladly followed the mazes of the dance. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Its untouched mazes of matted jungle had as yet invited no hardy pioneer from the human beasts beyond its frontier. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- But there is the seed of an invention in it which might convert the police from mere agents of repression to kindly helpers in the mazes of a city. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- We walk the pathless mazes of society, vacant of joy, till we hold this clue, leading us through that labyrinth to paradise. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I was lost in the mazes of my future fortunes, and could not retrace the by-paths we had trodden together. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- But one day, Kulonga, a son of the old king, Mbonga, wandered far into the dense mazes to the west. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The mazes of the dance were ecstatic. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
Editor: Stu