To clear the snow from the narrow wynds and pends, however, was a task not to be attempted; and the Auld Lichts, at least, rested content when enough light got into their workshops to let them see where their looms stood.
Twenty-four hours afterwards a small party of staid Auld Lichts, carrying long white poles, stepped out of various wynds and closes and picked their solemn way to the house of mourning.
Alas for the hundreds of girl-children growing up among the debasing circumstances of the crowded "lands" of our wynds and closes, without even the instincts of virtue!
The wynds and closes are swarming with them, the ragged and industrial schools, when they get hold of them, are fain to withdraw them by night as well as by day from what in mockery are called their homes, if they are to do anything with them.
But there were numerouswynds and closes (as the narrow streets are called) which led down from the High Street and the upper part of the Canongate to the High School, through which I often preferred to wander.
Many persons tried to enter the vestry, but were ordered away, and when Tosh joined his fellow-elders the people were collecting in animated groups in the square, or scattering through the wynds for news.
The soldiers marching through thewynds came frequently upon him, and found it hard to believe that he was always the same one.
All Thrums was out in its wynds and closes--a few of the weavers still in knee-breeches--to look at the new Auld Licht minister.
The palaces of the Cowgate and of the Canongate were the homes of the nobles; the wynds were crowded with burgesses, tradesmen, prentices, and the throng of artisans.
The ridge fell away steeply, through rifts of wynds and closes, to the Cowgate ravine on the one hand, and to Princes Street's parked valley on the other.
Dwellers in the tenements darted up wynds and blind closes, climbed twisting turnpike stairs to windy roosts under the gables, or they scuttled through noble doors into foul courts and hallways.
Long before Bobby's day the well-to-do had fled from the Cowgate wynds to the hilltop streets and open squares about the colleges.
The wyndsand closes that climbed the southern slope were eagerly possessed by divines, lawyers and literary men because of their nearness to the University.
As well look for a burr thistle in a bin of oats, as look for a human atom in the Cowgate and the wynds "juist aff.
The sedan was much in vogue in Edinburgh at that period, because it threaded the narrow wynds and alleys better than any other sort of carriage was able to do.
So the peace mission failed, and the Hamiltons streamed through all the narrow wyndsleading from the Cowgate into the High Street, and there found the Douglases awaiting them in a compact mass, and amid cries of “A Douglas!
From this backbone there jut out on either side, forming, as it were, the ribs from the spine, all those narrow wynds and quaint closes so characteristic of the Old Town, and so full of the traditions and stories of Old Town life.
The Cowgate was then a fashionable and but half-built suburb, lying below the main ridge of the city to the south, and communicating with the main city above it by numerous wynds and closes.
On the march down the West Bow, one by one they stole off, up the narrow wynds and doorways, till by the time they reached the West Port, only the student corps remained, and even its ranks were sadly thinned.
Innes, stravaiging the square and wynds in his apple-cart, jingled his weights in vain, unable to shake even moneyed children off their stools, and when at last he told his beast to go home they took with them all the stir of the town.
They preferred to live in the dirty cosiness of the old wynds and closes, and so the New Town seemed likely to be a paper project for years to come.
In this progress the tall and crowded houses and darkening wynds and closes stood to right and left.
And in another place: "The wynds of Glasgow contain a fluctuating population of fifteen to thirty thousand human beings.
Out of the High Street there open downwards multitudes of narrow, crooked alleys, called wynds from their many turnings, and these wynds form the proletarian district of the city.
Twenty-four hours afterward a small party of staid Auld Lichts, carrying long white poles, stepped out of various wynds and closes and picked their solemn way to the house of mourning.
There is an endless fascination in going from house to house, in their old wynds and closes, now.
Even at high noon it is not always safe to walk through it; and there are many of its wynds into which no man would go without protection of the police.
Some of thesewynds are so narrow and dark that one hesitates about plunging into them.
All Thrums was out in its wynds and closes-- a few of the weavers still in knee-breeches--to look at the new Auld Licht minister.
It is rich in ancient half-timbered houses, often standing in their original narrow wynds or rows.
But there are many old tortuous by-streets and wynds on the steep slopes of Richmond well worth exploring.
It was at the foot of one of the north wynds of Edinburgh.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wynds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
