Gathering her draperies about her, Penelope sprang lightly out of bed and moved swiftly to the bedroom door, while Christopher, startled, followed the beauty of her sinuous form.
With her red mouth, her fascinatingly unsymmetrical mouth, and her sinuous body Penelope Wells at thirty-three was the kind of woman men look at twice and remember.
We pursue a narrow, sinuous mountain road, very muddy in places.
It is an undulating and sinuous road and one of the most dangerous in the Kingdom for reckless drivers.
For some miles we pursue a sinuous course across the barren country and occasionally encounter forbiddingly steep grades.
We cautiously follow the sinuous road until it pitches sharply down into the ravinelike coomb occupied by the Looes, East and West, according to their position on the river.
The gills are forked, somewhat anastomosing at the base, and sinuous in outline, though not markedly corrugated as in the next form.
Sinuous in its course, its moss-bedded windings were bordered by crystal rivulets which came down, broken by impediments, in bounding cascades, the water teeming with fish of tints recalling the changeful blushes of Aurora.
With a quick, sinuous movement she wrenched herself free, putting half the distance of the broad cushioned seat between them.
He was tall, much of Jack's height and build, yet constructed upon finer lines, with a sinuous grace of movement that had about it something almost feline.
Sinuous as a snake and swifter, his cruel eyes glowing like points of live flame, the long yellow form of the weasel darted forward.
It resembles a precipitate from the waters of mineral springs, and is often traversed by small empty sinuous cavities.
As a general rule, however, granite veins in all quarters of the globe are more sinuous in their course than those of trap.
The soft, rhythmic undulations of her graceful, sinuous body, vibrating and pulsating with the ecstatic, rapturous emotion inspired by the music and the dance, were a revelation of beauty.
In addition to its general course Wawayanda Creek is especiallysinuous in the New Milford and Sandfordville districts of Warwick, the bends multiplying at short distances, and also in the vicinity of the De Kay homestead in Vernon.
Early in the battle Tharn learned it was useless merely to push them from the limb: they would fall a few feet until some long sinuous limb would catch a lower branch and back they would come to the fight.
Each vine she scraped against was pictured in her mind as the sinuous coils of Sleeza, the snake; each fluttering of a disturbed bird was an aroused panther or leopard.
Already a dozen of the tawny, sinuous bodies were sowing death among the ranks of Jotan's followers.
Slowly the jungle king strode along the unsteady line of burning wood, his lithe sinews rolling beneath the shimmering hide, the sinuous tail moving in graceful undulations.
Ealing, indeed, grows towards it across a green flat, on which the Brent makes sinuous windings as natural hazards for a golf-course.
And her form, as she leant towards him, was full of a sinuous grace he had never noticed before.
It slowly moved toward me on its velvety paws, softly rubbing its sinuous body against my legs.
A flexible catheter would, in such a case as this, be more likely, perhaps, to follow the sinuous course of the prostatic passage than a rigid instrument of metal.
This cave is about a mile east of Torquay harbor, and is of a sinuous character, running deeply into a hill of Devonian limestone, about half a mile distant from the sea.
In the case of the river Somme, we have a wide and deep valley, a large part of which has been excavated in chalk rock, through which the river now winds its way in a sinuous course to the English Channel.
She let herself sink, with sinuous grace, into the chair.
Mrs. Spencer lowered her book--then arose with all the sinuous grace she knew so well how to assume.
Assunnepachla was the Indian name of Frankstown; and no person, by following the most sinuouswindings of the river, can make the distance to Lewistown over eighty miles.
