Curving

Examples

• The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, thrown out on each side. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Later, the bowl became more pointed, the drop was replaced by a tongue, and the handle, after 1760, instead of slightly curving to the front at the end, reversed the position. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The Wrights doubted whether this was the best form for shifting weather, and built theirs more on the pattern of the gull’s wings, curving slightly at the tips. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It was impossible, from that position, to see the fall, but I could see the curving path which winds over the shoulder of the hill and leads to it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Sometimes they cut spiral strips from the curving horns of a mountain sheep, and steamed them straight. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Here, in a clearing upon the green slope of a hill, stood a long, low, stone house, approached by a curving drive running through the fields. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The view was pleasant; a highroad curving round the edge of a low lake, under the trees. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It ended in a curving staircase, with the commissionnaire's lodge in the passage at the bottom. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• In operation the bucket is lowered and made to take a curving upward cut, thus dipping up the bottom material, which is discharged through the hinged bottom of the bucket. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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