Windings
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So I had assumed that Captain Nemo, in adjusting his course, would go around each obstacle or would hug the walls and follow the
windings
of the tunnel.
More example sentences with word windings
Keeping to its northerly heading, it followed the long
windings
of South America.
Sometimes they disappeared in the
windings
of the path; but the great silver cross rose always before the trees.
The mild mistress of the Locusts suffered the exuberance of the housekeeper's feelings to expend itself, and then, by one or two judicious questions, that denoted a more intimate knowledge of the
windings
of the human heart in matters of Cupid than might fairly be supposed to belong to a spinster, she extracted enough from Katy to discover the improbability of Harvey's ever presuming to offer himself, with his broken fortunes, to the acceptance of Katharine Haynes.
When Mr. Wharton left the city, he was one of the very few who maintained the state of a carriage; and, at the time Miss Peyton and his daughters joined him in his retirement, they had been conveyed to the cottage in the heavy chariot that had once so imposingly rolled through the
windings
of Queen Street, or emerged, with somber dignity, into the more spacious drive of Broadway.
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