Winding

Examples

• It was a lovely drive, along winding roads rich in the picturesque scenes that delight beauty-loving eyes. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I staggered to my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding stair. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The walls are 15 feet thick at the base, and 18 inches at the top, and its summit is reached by an internal winding staircase and a central elevator. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The different parts of these are called the tube, jacket, hoops, locking rings, trunnion rings, wire winding, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Tal Hajus arose, and I, half fearing, half anticipating his intentions, hurried to the winding runway which led to the floors below. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• After winding along it for more than a mile, they reached their own house. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• This original method of reducing the amount of physical labor involved in watch-winding brings to mind another instance of shrewdness mentioned by Edison, with regard to his newsboy days. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This bar-clasp could be moved backward and forward on a rod as the spinner’s hand would do when stretching the thread and winding it on. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• We hurried across the ravine and up a winding road, and stood on the old Acropolis, with the prodigious walls of the citadel towering above our heads. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The applications of wire ropes are very numerous, an important one being for winding and hauling purposes in mines. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• That grief over which I had lately been weeping, as I wrapped it in its winding-sheetmust be interred. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Slipping quietly through this opening I discovered a maze of winding corridors, branching and turning in every direction. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• It avoided the continuous stretch on the thread of the jenny by first completing the thread and then winding it. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• When you go winding round and round me, says the trooper, putting his pipe between his lips again, damme, if I don't feel as if I was being smothered! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Winding through the hollow, he passed the Grammar School, and came to Willey Green Church. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I eagerly traced the windings of the land, and hailed a steeple which I at length saw issuing from behind a small promontory. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Shunt and series field-windings were added to the motor, and the series windings could be plugged in and out of circuit as desired. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The blow broke the glass carboy, and the acid ran down upon the field magnets of the dynamo, destroying the windings of one of the twelve magnets. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Owing to the necessary windings of his course his back was at present towards them. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• My senses were overpowered, and I scarcely regretted my stern guide, when the windings of the mountain concealed him from my sight. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The ascent is precipitous, but the path is cut into continual and short windings, which enable you to surmount the perpendicularity of the mountain. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• After following the muddy windings of the lane for ten minutes or more, I saw a cottage with a light in one of the windows. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The Sergeant stood with his face set towards a gap in the trees, commanding a view of one of the windings of the drive which led from the house. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The real political genius stands between the actual life of men, their wishes and their needs, and all the windings of official caste and professional snobbery. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Vholes knows all their windings and turnings, and we are upon them everywhere. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• This must not be, if the clue that leads through the windings of the story is to remain from end to end untangled in my hands. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Guided by a slight clue, I followed the windings of the Rhone, but vainly. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• How little I knew then of the windings of the labyrinths which were still to mislead me! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• We need not follow the windings of the truce and the treaty that finally extended the rule of the Prophet to Mecca. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The din was on the causeway: a horse was coming; the windings of the lane yet hid it, but it approached. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

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