Keeping close in, following the sinuosities of the shore, and lingering here and there, they observed everything as they passed, and on the morning of the 16th arrived at Cape Anne.
It deals not only with the natural history, the fauna and flora, but with the character of the soil, its numerous products, as well as the sinuosities and conformation of the shore, and is unusually minute in details touching the natives.
The coast next us, from Alexandria almost to the Pillars, is in a straight line, with the exception of the Syrtes, the sinuosities of some moderately sized bays, and the projection of the promontories by which they are formed.
They took their name of Symplegades from the varying positions they assumed to the eyes of the voyager, owing to the sinuosities of the Strait.
In the great sinuosities of the river whole days are sometimes passed without advancing more than two or three hundred toises.
We found by the bearings of the sinuosities of the river, that this rock is nearly in the latitude of the mission of San Francisco Solano.
To avoid the sinuositiesof the river and shorten the passage, the navigation is here performed in a very extraordinary manner.
In such a lock the keyhole, which is a little very narrow slit, is formed sinuously to correspond to the sinuosities of the key.
All the little sinuositiesof the coast were followed, and in one place I picked up a small keg which had belonged to Mr. Thistle, and also some broken pieces of the boat but these were all that could be discovered.
Cape Jaffa of the French; but I do not find that they have given any name to the bight or bay, although much more deserving than some other sinuosities in the coast on which that honour is conferred.
He had traced the shore-line with its sinuosities and its numberless islands far beyond the two distinguished headlands, Cape sable and Cape Cod, which respectively mark the entrance to the Gulf of Maine.
This would bring them, allowing for the sinuosities of the shore, to a point between Little Boar's Head and the Isles of Shoals.
Along the two escarpments the engineer followed almost exactly the sinuosities of the edge of the plateau, but placing the gates in the re-entering angles.
As for Maud, her eyes were frequently cast behind her, for she was fearful Robert Willoughby might miss the path, having so little acquaintance with the thousand sinuosities he encountered.
The coast extends from Cape Dussejour to Cape Londonderry, a distance of ninety-five miles, without an opening, and with but few sinuosities of any consequence.
A line of stakes is planted, following the sinuosities of the river, and chained and levelled.
The sinuosities sometimes increase till a loop is formed with only a narrow strip of land between the two encroaching branches of the river.
The Giesbach is a succession of falls, whose water comes from a glacier, and which are produced by the sinuosities of the leaps and inclined planes of a mountain side, aided by rocks and precipices.
For thirty-six hours the Forward followed the sinuosities of the coast of Boothia, without reaching Prince of Wales Land.
In proportion as such valleys are widened, sinuosities are caused by the deflection of the stream first to one side and then to the other.
This estimate of distances is excessive, unless sinuosities of the trail are included, but this is not clear from the text.
The actual distance passed must have been much greater, as our real course was extremely circuitous, winding from right to left in conformity to thesinuosities of the valley.
The smaller sinuosities of the bed are not taken into account, just as the windings of a river are neglected in stating the line of its course.
Simplicity was his very life, and yet he had a gift for following the sinuosities of the Oriental mind; he had a quality almost clairvoyant, which came, perhaps, from his Irish forebears.
Wyndham could not travel the sinuosities of their minds, and it would not have affected his purpose if he could have done so.
Looking is that direction, in the foreground was Coppetwood Hill, an oblong eminence embraced by one of the greatsinuosities of the river, more than six miles in the round and less than one across the neck or isthmus.
One day, as we were following the sinuosities of a valley, our hearts oppressed with sad thoughts, all of a sudden we perceived two horsemen make their appearance on the ridge of an adjacent hill.
The sun was nearly setting when, issuing from the last of the infinite sinuosities of the mountain, we found ourselves in a vast plain, and saw on our right Lha-Ssa, the famous metropolis of the Buddhic world.
Very soon appeal has to be made to common sense, that is to say, to the continuous experience of the real, in order to inflect the consequences deduced and bend them along the sinuosities of life.
The truth is that adaptation explains thesinuosities of the movement of evolution, but not its general directions, still less the movement itself.
Almost at his very offset in life, he acquired a notoriety which has increased through all the subsequent sinuosities of his career.
Following the sinuositiesof the river the distance of Windsor from the sea is about one hundred and forty miles; whereas in a straight line it is not more than thirty-five.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sinuosities" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
