The first thing you come at is a kind of Cavern exceeding rustick, and gently sloping: in this there is nothing extraordinary, but as you move forward the place is perfectly surprizing; nothing but Turnings and crooked By-ways.
An hundered and fifty dores Did to this Bower belong, And they so cunningly contriv'd With turnings round about That none but with a clew of thread Could enter in or out.
Blind turnings present no difficulty, as they will only be traversed first in one direction and then in the other.
Instead of the iron turnings we may use two iron wires, one resting on the other; the resistance of this contact will be altered by the incidence of the waves.
Then comes the descent, with its forests of larch and cembra, golden and dark green upon a ground of grey, and in front the serried shafts of the Bernina, and here and there a glimpse of emerald lake at turnings of the road.
There were turnings every now and again, passageways branching off from the main one into other patches of unbroken gloom.
And still in his service I made this rough map of the varied turnings of the secret passage, and the places to which they led.
At Dollops's suggestion they followed always the turnings upon the right.
It may be easily procured by heating in a retort some copper turnings in dilute nitric acid.
Believe that God's eye is always upon thy heart, to observe all the ways, all the turningsand windings of it.
One has nothing to do but to follow on that road over the bridge, take the two first turnings to the right, and then the next to the left, and at the end of a league more the castle is in sight.
Thou art so young, methinks thou scarce canst know all the turnings of a wood like this.
One can see, by the plan submitted by the prosecution, that the high road to Northferry takes innumerableturnings and windings.
The forest is so very thick, and so many twistings and turnings are required to pass through it, that, although I travelled thirty miles, I don't believe I made more than fifteen miles in a straight line.
After many turnings and twistings, and being bogged up to the shoulders, we managed to get through all safe.
It is not very high, but rough and steep, and we had great difficulty in getting to the top, but after many twistings and turnings and scramblings, we arrived there all right, and found it to be table land.
What involved and intricate turnings and turnings on itself; what fugitive replacement of emotion by emotion!
They flow wideningly around the hard turnings of the house with the grace of a rivulet.
Many other pleasing examples could be cited if further turningsof the kaleidoscope were a real need, but this slender discourse is as long now as it should be.
From this undulating line, the verdant land slipped down and down and down--to the fantastic turnings of the river.
All the turnings this man made in the streets seemed to indicate that all was not quite right with him, and arresting him too quickly would be "killing the goose with the golden eggs.
Destiny has such turningsas this: men anticipate the throne of the world, and perceive St. Helena.
Jean Valjean at once left the boulevard and entered the streets, making as many turnings as he could, and at times retracing his steps to make sure that he was not followed.
They spent all night in turningswithout sleepe: for if they warmed one side, they freesed on the other.
The cottage itself being, as I have before said, two or three hundred yards removed from the town, in the turnings of a narrow road, was out of sight.
The general servant may be caught young among the turnings at the end where mangling is done; and the factory girls live still further off, in places skirting slums.
In the devious paths of a pavement-ridden man there are a hundred byways: there is the long, long lane of many turningscalled Compromise.
They resemble the labors of a puppy pursuing his tail; the end is still at the same distance, and all the turnings round must be done over again.
To trace over in imagination the purity of the cause, the voluntary sacrifices that were made to support it, and all the various turnings of the war in its defence, is at once both paying and receiving respect.
A little more, and again it roared across the river, a great rocket: spurning the watery turnings and doublings with ineffable contempt, and going straight to its end, as Father Time goes to his.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "turnings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
