sinuosities

The end of the dreary garden edges off into a close-sheltered lane, wandering and winding, like a rivulet, in gentle 'sinuosities' (to use

Our Village Mary Russell Mitford 1821

Through the sinuosities of their vast mythology, he worked cunningly upon the credulity of his people.

The Son of the Wolf 2010

Through the sinuosities of their vast mythology, he worked cunningly upon the credulity of his people.

The Sun of the Wolf 2010

From the valley floor the line “could be traced along the mountain sides, following all the angles and sinuosities of the ridges for many miles—always preserving its horizontality—sometimes being high up above the plain, and again intersecting long and high slopes of gravel and sand; on such places a beach-line could be read.”

Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

From the valley floor the line “could be traced along the mountain sides, following all the angles and sinuosities of the ridges for many miles—always preserving its horizontality—sometimes being high up above the plain, and again intersecting long and high slopes of gravel and sand; on such places a beach-line could be read.”

Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

The name of Mondetour paints marvellously well the sinuosities of that whole set of streets.

Les Miserables 2008

I crept on, therefore, trusting that the sinuosities of the ground, broken as it was into knells and sand-pits, would permit me to obtain a sight of the musicians before I should be observed by them.

Redgauntlet 2008

This is clear to us in the character of the trees and card players of a Cézanne, born in France, — in the curled sinuosities of the horizons and figures of a Van Gogh, born in Holland, — in the almost Arab ornamentation of a Picasso, born in Spain — or in the quattrocento linear feeling of a Modigliani, born in Italy.

'Chagall' 2008

The nature of their progress, too, never direct, but winding by a narrow path along the sinuosities of the valley, and making many a circuit round precipices and other obstacles which it was impossible to surmount, added to the wild variety of a journey, in which, at last, the travellers totally lost any vague idea which they had previously entertained concerning the direction in which the road led them.

Anne of Geierstein 2008

Woods and thickets ran up the sides of the mountains, and disappeared among the sinuosities formed by the winding ravines which separated them from each other; but far above these specimens of a tolerable natural soil arose the swart and bare mountains themselves, in the dark grey desolation proper to the season.

The Fair Maid of Perth 2008