Winding
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Here are all the green braes and the brown
winding
road just the same as ever.
Night falls from above, bringing
winding
sheets in its shade.
In this other squadron there come those that drink of the crystal streams of the olive-bearing Betis, those that make smooth their countenances with the water of the ever rich and golden Tagus, those that rejoice in the fertilising flow of the divine Genil, those that roam the Tartesian plains abounding in pasture, those that take their pleasure in the Elysian meadows of Jerez, the rich Manchegans crowned with ruddy ears of corn, the wearers of iron, old relics of the Gothic race, those that bathe in the Pisuerga renowned for its gentle current, those that feed their herds along the spreading pastures of the
winding
Guadiana famed for its hidden course, those that tremble with the cold of the pineclad Pyrenees or the dazzling snows of the lofty Apennine; in a word, as many as all Europe includes and contains."
On this Clara, afraid that Luscinda might overhear her,
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her arms tightly round Dorothea put her mouth so close to her ear that she could speak without fear of being heard by anyone else, and said:"This singer, dear senora, is the son of a gentleman of Aragon, lord of two villages, who lives opposite my father's house at Madrid; and though my father had curtains to the windows of his house in winter, and lattice-work in summer, in some way—I know not how—this gentleman, who was pursuing his studies, saw me, whether in church or elsewhere, I cannot tell, and, in fact, fell in love with me, and gave me to know it from the windows of his house, with so many signs and tears that I was forced to believe him, and even to love him, without knowing what it was he wanted of me.
As Sancho heard the voices, clinging tightly to his master and
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his arms round him, he said, "Senor, how do they make out we are going up so high, if their voices reach us here and they seem to be speaking quite close to us?""Don't mind that, Sancho," said Don Quixote; "for as affairs of this sort, and flights like this are out of the common course of things, you can see and hear as much as you like a thousand leagues off; but don't squeeze me so tight or thou wilt upset me; and really I know not what thou hast to be uneasy or frightened at, for I can safely swear I never mounted a smoother-going steed all the days of my life; one would fancy we never stirred from one place.
I know what it is to be jilted, Sir; I have endured that sort of thing three or four times.''I am much obliged to you, for your condolence on what you presume to be my melancholy case,' said Mr. Pickwick,
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up his watch, and laying it on the table, 'but--''No, no,' said Mr. Peter Magnus, 'not a word more; it's a painful subject.
The snow lay hard and crisp upon the ground; and spread over the thickly-strewn mounds of earth, so white and smooth a cover that it seemed as if corpses lay there, hidden only by their
winding
sheets.
As the lady spoke these words, Mr. Jackson turned from the coach where he had been addressing some observations to a shabby man in black leggings, who had just emerged from the vehicle with a thick ash stick in his hand, and made his way to the place where the ladies were seated;
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his hair round the brim of his hat, as he came along.
This, as it stood, was a very pretty denunciation, and magnanimous withal; but Mr. Bob Sawyer rather weakened its effect, by
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up with some general observations concerning the punching of heads and knocking out of eyes, which were commonplace by comparison.
This also was opened, and led down a flight of
winding
stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate.
The husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of
winding
up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller.
Having measured these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed the
winding
track which led to Boscombe Pool.
In the latter, as may be remembered, Sherlock Holmes was able, by
winding
up the dead man's watch, to prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the case.
A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and springing down, I followed Holmes up the small,
winding
gravel-drive which led to the house.
He led us down a passage, opened a barred door, passed down a
winding
stair, and brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each side.
It was a labyrinth of an old house, with corridors, passages, narrow
winding
staircases, and little low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the generations who had crossed them.
I staggered to my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a
winding
stair.
After
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along it for more than a mile, they reached their own house.
About a mile and a half from the cottage, along the narrow
winding
valley of Allenham, which issued from that of Barton, as formerly described, the girls had, in one of their earliest walks, discovered an ancient respectable looking mansion which, by reminding them a little of Norland, interested their imagination and made them wish to be better acquainted with it.
It had no park, but the pleasure-grounds were tolerably extensive; and like every other place of the same degree of importance, it had its open shrubbery, and closer wood walk, a road of smooth gravel
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round a plantation, led to the front, the lawn was dotted over with timber, the house itself was under the guardianship of the fir, the mountain-ash, and the acacia, and a thick screen of them altogether, interspersed with tall Lombardy poplars, shut out the offices.
Marianne entered the house with a heart swelling with emotion from the consciousness of being only eighty miles from Barton, and not thirty from Combe Magna; and before she had been five minutes within its walls, while the others were busily helping Charlotte to show her child to the housekeeper, she quitted it again, stealing away through the
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shrubberies, now just beginning to be in beauty, to gain a distant eminence; where, from its Grecian temple, her eye, wandering over a wide tract of country to the south-east, could fondly rest on the farthest ridge of hills in the horizon, and fancy that from their summits Combe Magna might be seen.
At length, after
winding
about for a minute or two, Mme.
And Kitty, who had not let go the hand of d’Artagnan, led him up a little dark,
winding
staircase, and after ascending about fifteen steps, opened a door.
As long as we were protected on the inside of the
winding
staircase up the tower, all was well enough; but after toiling up a hundred and fifty steps the fresh air came to salute my face, and we were on the leads of the tower.
We were to know them before long, but on consulting Olsen's map, I saw that they would be avoided by
winding
along the seashore.
On Friday, after a night during which I felt pangs of thirst, our little troop again plunged into the
winding
passages of the gallery.
Through the beds of schist, coloured with delicate shades of green, ran in
winding
course threads of copper and manganese, with traces of platinum and gold.
The granite tunnel
winding
from side to side, earned us past unexpected turns, and seemed almost to form a labyrinth; but, on the whole, its direction seemed to be south-easterly.
We kept going down a kind of
winding
staircase, which seemed almost to have been made by the hand of man.
And, besides, I was getting used to this idea; for the tunnel, now running straight, now
winding
as capriciously in its inclines as in its turnings, but constantly preserving its south-easterly direction, and always running deeper, was gradually carrying us to very great depths indeed.
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