302 collocations for wind

On and on the prayer wound its slow way; involution after involution, coil after coil, like a snake, the Boy thought, lazing in the sun.

The expression to "wind a horn" is frequently used.

" At the left of the table Genevieve Hassiebrock, with thirteen's crab-like silhouette of elbow, rigid plaits, and nose still hitched to the star of her nativity, wound an exceedingly long arm about Miss Hassiebrock's trim waist-line.

They weigh over a pound, and have to be unlocked with a key in a manner not greatly differing from the operation of winding up the average eight-day clock, and fastened on to the prisoner's wrists, how, the fates and good luck only know.

In 1840, the subject of an associate pastor was first brought forward; and, in 1841, commenced those unfortunate difficulties in regard to it, which continued with little interruption until the fall of 1845, when the proprietors were called together to act upon a proposition to sell the meeting-house and wind up the affairs of the Society.

"Wind my thread of life up higher, Up, through angels' hands of fire!

She wound King's watch, guessing at the time; she judged it sensible to force a little nourishment upon him at regular intervals and brought him his broth every two hours.

[Variant 68: 1836. ... to stray, Where winds the road along the secret bay; By rills that tumble down the woody steeps, And run in transport to the dimpling deeps; Along the "wild meand'ring shore" to view, Obsequious Grace the winding swan pursue.

"A frightened committee would probably urge a drastic re-construction scheme, the writing off much of our capital, and perhaps winding up the line.

The House met in November to wind up the business, and the Prime Minister announced that an appeal would be made to the country on the single issue of the Lords' veto, the specific proposals of the Government being placed before the electorate.

In the distance the way began to wind up-hill, and a stunted, leafless wood straggled along one side of the highway.

I was going right down to the farm-house to console Melindy, and take her a book she wanted to read, for no fine lady of all my New York acquaintance enjoyed a good book more than she did; but Cousin Kate asked me to wind some yarn for her, and was so brilliant, so amiable, so altogether charming, I quite forgot Melindy till dinner-time, and then, when that was over, there was a basket to be found, and we were off,turkey-hunting!

The girl did not look up; she was winding a gold chain about her wrist, and then uncoiling it as if in a kind of reverie.

Encountering one of these, he pointed out to us the narrow road which, winding up the slope, afforded means of bringing down in waggons during the two harvest seasons, each of which lasts for about fifty days, the fruit of these groves, which furnishes a principal article of food.

Many a fine scamper have the old Berkshire hounds enjoyed over these grassy pastures, where the Rosy Brook winds its sluggish course; and we trust they will continue to do so for many years to come.

So I left Karslake to wind up loose ends in London, and posted back with my heart in my mouth for fear I'd be too late.

"Chiron his cruel mind With art, and taught his warlike hands to wind The silver strings of his melodious lyre."

Round his body O'Brien had also wound a rope of silk, sixty feet long, with knots at every two feet.

She was winding her fingers now in and out among themselves.

" "Frank," shouted Ford, "let's go right in, and see our crowd!" Ford was evidently getting a little excited; and it was hardly five minutes later that he wound up his story, in the house, with, "Father, may I contribute my ten dollars to the Richard Lee Education Fund?" "Of course; but he will need a good deal more money than you boys can raise.

he asked, in great agitation: "must I take the oath of Loyalty; or am I required by Yankee philanthropy to marry a negress?" At the sound of his voice, Mr. BUMSTEAD left the shoulder of Mr. SIMPSON, upon which he had been leaning with great weight, and, coming forward in three long skips, deliberately wound his right hand in the speaker's neck-tie.

" Then he clapped his horn to his lips and winded a blast that went echoing sweetly down the forest paths.

"Tirila, lirila," the sweet, clear notes went winding down the forest paths, coming back again from the more distant bosky shades in faint echoes of sound, "Tirila, lirila, tirila, lirila," until it faded away and was lost.

Before the agony had passed, the whip was winding round her slender body again like a red-hot snake.

The treatment in this case consists in simply winding a piece of very narrow tape round the growth, and then leaving it untouched.

302 collocations for  wind