the bend

• “Hastening down the corridor, Picard peered around the bend of the perpendicular passage and caught sight of her again.”

  Simon & Schuster: Death in Winter

• “The panzers advanced northwest, toward the bend in the Psyol River.”

  Panzer Aces

• “A watchtower has been in this place at the bend of the river for as long as people have dwelled in this land.”

  Simon & Schuster: Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer

• “Because of the very poor road conditions, the battle group did not reach the bend in the road southwest of Nekotayevka until darkness was falling.”

  Panzer Aces

• “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

• “I moved up to seventy-five and roared past the turn for the 79th Street Causeway, around the bend by the Publix Market, and into the straightaway, searching frantically for the truck.”

  Darkly Dreaming Dexter

• “The naked child ran out of the hide-covered lean-to toward the rocky beach at the bend in the small river.”

  The Clan of the Cave Bear

• “Gaius Cilnius Maecenas, aged thirty, was an Etruscan of the oldest blood; his family were the lords of Arretium, a busy river port on the bend of the Arnus where the Annian, Cassian, and Clodian roads met as they traveled from Rome to Italian Gaul.”

  Simon & Schuster: Antony and Cleopatra

• “The tide is running with us and we make good speed down-river around the bend from Westminster and from there to the opposite shore of the river.”

  Simon & Schuster: Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer

• “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

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