round the bend

“Mandras was later to thank Velisarios for shooting him with a Turkish culverin as he came round the bend at the entrance of the village.”

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

“Look, here are Dinah Copeland’s if indeed they are hers, coming round the bend into the protection of the bank.”

Overture to Death

“As the river bore them round the bend they saw the beast standing there, a great shaggy wolflike beast, its head lifted as it howled again.”

The Fortress of the Pearl

“Suddenly there was a crashing in the brush ahead, round the bend where the bridge over the little Almond River awaited them.”

Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles

“When Miss Prentice, dry-eyed but still raging, came round the bend in the lane, Henry was kissing Dinah’s throat. iv”

Overture to Death

“That noospaper cost me fifty dollars -- caught the man comin 'in round the bend above Klondike City, an' bought it on the spot.”

CHAPTER 10

“But before she had quite reached it another vehicle shot out from a clump of trees on the summit, came round the bend of the road there, passed the luggage-cart, and halted beside Tess, who looked up as if in great surprise.”

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

“She came round the bend in the river, and he saw that she was loaded with troops, small stocky men in grey-green umforms with rifles and fixed bayonets taller than themselves.”

A Town Like Alice