And one, a full-fed riverwinding slow By herds upon an endless plain, The ragged rims of thunder brooding low, With shadow-streaks of rain.
Of ledge or shelf The rock rose clear, or winding stair.
The public indignation is fast collecting and winding up to a high pitch; and it only waits the result of the present examinations to pour down upon the heads of these corrupt instigators to fury and bloodshed.
This operation being performed upon the Customhouse ass and his two supporters, I proceeded to address the meeting, for the purpose of winding up the subject upon which I had been dilating, when Squire Goodford spoke to order.
She dropped her embroidery into her lap and sat looking out at the narrow grass-grown road winding past the house and over the hill, and ending in a narrow mountain path beyond.
Mary replied with a grimace so much like his own, that it brought on a contest in which the yarn winding was laid aside for a time, while they stood before a mirror, each trying to outdo the other in making grotesque faces.
It was nearly sundown when a slow creaking of wheels and soft thud of hoofs on the grass-grown road called their attention to a short procession of wagons and horsemen, windingalong towards the house.
Jack opened the door of the clock and began winding the weights that had hung idle for nearly a year.
I love to tread the grass-green path, Far up the winding stream; For there in nature's loneliness, The day is one bright dream.
To the river winding clear, To the fragrant-scented breer, Even to thee of all most dear, bonnie lassie, O!
It is perched on the top of a flat-iron shaped hill upon the point of which the picturesque Jardin de Blossac smiles down upon the winding river Clain.
Curtains suspended across backs of niches give the artist another colour, while white winding scrolls assist canopy portions in admitting light.
For example, winding crowded streets are apt to rise in one's mind when London is mentioned.
In the first two chapels on the left the personages hold in their hands long winding scrolls on which there is writing.
Nae echo heard in double dints, Nor the lang-winding horn, Nae mair she blew out brade as she Did eir that summers morn.
I'll seek me a winding shroud, 15 And down to the shades below.
In the windingroom girls are engaged at machines which wind the yarn from spools back to bobbins for filling in the looms and also for the warp.
In winding the filling bobbins the girls watch the thread from eighteen bobbins, and replace and stop bobbins by pressing on foot pedals.
From these the yarn goes to the winding room in the newer building, where better air and temperature are possible than in the carding and spinning rooms.
There are three kinds or stages of twisting and winding roving on these machines, and at the last, the "speeders," women are employed.
She is seen washing wool in a bowl, carding it, stripping the flax, beating it, spinning it on a distaff, and winding it into hanks.
It ran out like a promontory into the windingvalley below; the valley that had been a real river when the Catskills were real mountains.
Arnold, "I love this green island of chestnut trees, and the winding empty valley, just freckled with a few farms.
The people poured along the winding walls, entered the pretty cottages, were much impressed by a little flock of well-floored tents in another corner, but came back with Ohs!
THE winding way the serpent takes The mystic water took, From where, to count its beaded lakes, The forest sped its brook.
We had tracked The winding Pemigewasset, overhung By beechen shadows, whitening down its rocks, Or lazily gliding through its intervals, From waving rye-fields sending up the gleam Of sunlit waters.
IN the outskirts of the village, On the river's winding shores, Stand the Occidental plane-trees, Stand the ancient sycamores.
So into the forest they held their way, By windingriver and frost-rimmed bay, Over wind-swept hills that felt the beat Of the winter sea at their icy feet.
Turning a score of mill-wheels, The stream no more ran free; White sails on the winding river, White sails on the far-off sea.
OUT and in the river is winding The links of its long, red chain, Through belts of dusky pine-land And gusty leagues of plain.
Twenty-five hundred feet in the air rises Eryx, to-day Monte San Giuliano, reached from Trapani by an interminably winding but easy road that twists and turns half a hundred times in its ascent.
A rugged, winding path leads up this hillside to the ancient castle, crowning a crag far above, though the usual route is by way of Mola.
She had seen a little procession winding along the road to the cemetery the morning after her arrival.
And as she went quickly along the winding path through the trees the moon dropped pools of light in her way, the scrub oaks threw out their arms to hold her back and hosts of little shadows seemed to run out to catch at her frock.
We glided down a winding creek where huge trunks of trees slanted across close overhead, and presently emerged into the Murucupi.
This is also a winding channel, thirty-five miles in length, threading a group of islands, but it is much narrower than the Macaco.
The village was aroused: the young men with praiseworthy readiness seized their harpoons and hurried down to the bank; but, of course it was too late, a winding track of blood on the surface of the water was all that could be seen.
He returned when Manoel spoke, and we went ashore, the montaria winding along a gloomy overshadowed water-path made by cutting away the lower branches and underwood.
Nevertheless he spied upon Lorna in the summer evenings when it was possible to follow her, and he dogged Swann's winding and devious path as far as possible.
Far down the winding road he discerned an object moving slowly up the hill.
The gleaming river shone winding away under the dusky wooded hills.
Lane caught a glimpse of a winding flagged path, and in the distance a cottage among the trees.
The wide hall, the winding stairway with its soft carpet, the narrower hallway above--these made a long journey for Lane.
We presently come to a narrow but deep channel into the lake coming from the eastward, which we go up, winding our course with it into a valley between the hills.
Mecca, like the good Mohammedans these Haussas are, others winding themselves into their cummerbunds.
All along the windinghundred feet of vault they had hacked out brick after brick only to encounter solid earth behind.
Winding down through the tenement-house gloom, Great Taylor was not without fear.
This conduit wound around a good deal; it would take a hundred winding feet to cover thirty straightaway.
They had had to turn off the pike and take a windingwood road, rough and muddy from the spring rains.
I knew it was the settling of some old account, the winding up of some terrible revenge.
Our road lay up the river, crossing the shallow ford at intervals, andwinding through the bottom-lands, that were heavily timbered.
One man led the way up the winding stone stairs, fighting every step.
It was located attractively upon the side of a hill and windingpaths connected the buildings, which were of red brick and painted concrete.
A few miles west of Fismes the railroad divides, one branch winding away southwestward to Paris the other running west through Soissons and Compiegne.
I proceeded in the direction indicated, winding round the side of the hill, the same mountain which the old man had pointed out to me some time before.
The path was now winding and much more steep than it had hitherto been.
On the following morning I strolled up the Berwyn on the south-west of the town, by a broad winding path, which was at first very steep, but by degrees became less so.
She took me by a winding path up a steep bank on the southern side of the fall to a small plateau, and told me that was the best place to see the Pistyll from.
Leaving the lighthouse on our right we followed a steep winding path which at last brought us to the top of the pen or summit, rising, according to the judgment which I formed, about six hundred feet from the surface of the sea.
Some of the smacks were so close now that he could see their long trawls stringing out behind, and little figures running about their decks, winding in nets, bringing in a flood of silver fishes.
Other clocks of the same century exist in various parts of Europe, the works of which have but one hand, which points the hour, and require winding every twenty-four hours.
The workmen were just finishing the interior of the City Hall, and he was greatly puzzled to understand how those winding stone stairs could be fixed without any visible means of support.
In ascending the winding flights of its tottering galleries, I could not help wondering at the caprice of events which had converted the dwelling of Bolingbroke into a malting-house and a mill.
It is a sluggish stream, winding its way through sandy soil and frequently along a divided channel.
Of other rivers the Lossie rises in the small lakes on the flanks of Carn Kitty and pursues a very winding course of 34 m.
No clouds were clinging to the streams through the valleys, and visible in all the glory of the frosty morn, lay the vale of the Richland, with its stream winding through it like an endless silver ribbon.
More than 100 acres of the estate is in the native forest, making, with its winding roads and paths, a pleasant park.
After winding through a beautiful valley, and a moment later fording the Mill fork of Catawba river, I found myself in the little village of Old Fort.
If the angler has not brought a jointed rod with him, before he has traveled far down this winding way, he can secure from the roadside an excellent pole in the shape of a long, lithe birch.
There is nothing more beautiful in rural scenery, than these luxuriant vines, winding and entwining among the branches of a spreading tree, until they have completely smothered it in their tendril grasp.
It is a charming panorama of cultivated fields, winding rivers, and distant slopes terminating in rugged peaks.
The stage goes a few rods further, and then turns into a winding drive, through the wooded amphitheater shown in the illustration on page 235.
It is through sweet pastoral scenes that this river is now flowing; the rugged and picturesque scenery for which it is noted lies further down its winding banks.
Al Ahkâf is the plural of Hekf, and signifies lands which lie in a crooked orwinding manner; whence it became the name of a territory in the province of Hadramaut, where the Adites dwelt.
