Example Sentences

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Let us wait till winter for that; and in the mean time pass out of this pleasant little copse, and make our way windingly towards the village.

From Mirror of the Months by Patmore, Peter George

Then the pale light of the little lamp glided windingly over the rounded outlines of flint fossils.

From Peasant Tales of Russia by Nemirovitch-Dantchenko, V.I.

From the little cove where his boat-house stood a road swept windingly to his house through a garden of luxuriant verdure.

From White Shadows in the South Seas by O'Brien, Frederick

Before long, they came to an old broken gate, half open; it was the entrance to a narrow cartway, now unused, which descended windingly between high thick hedges.

From In the Year of Jubilee by Gissing, George

The path was cut windingly through the lofty, dark, and closely serried trees, which vibrated like chords under the soft bow of the wind.

From The Trespasser by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)