1 Her eyes followed the winding road, blood-red now after the morning rain.
2 Still there was no sign of Gerald on the quiet winding road.
3 Opposite the winding stair stood a walnut sideboard, too large for use in the dining room, bearing on its wide top several lamps and a long row of candles in candlesticks.
4 The night before had been wild and wet with rain, but when Scarlett arrived in Atlanta a warm sun was at work, bravely attempting to dry the streets that were winding rivers of red mud.
5 She unlocked the door and went down the dim winding stair with a light heart.
6 For an hour she had watched Rhett hold the yarn Melanie was winding for knitting, had noted the blank inscrutable expression when Melanie talked at length and with pride of Ashley and his promotion.
7 Every chair in the house was occupied, and even the long winding stair was packed with guests.
8 It was still theirs, that slender iron line winding through the sunny valley toward Atlanta.
9 They had evidently spent the night under the trees in someone's front yard, for a sand and gravel driveway stretched out before her, winding away under an avenue of cedars.
10 Scarlett picked up the flaring candle and the three walked slowly into the dark hall and up the winding steps toward Gerald's room.
11 She had found one man in the prairie village who did not appreciate her picture of winding streets and arcades, but she had assembled the town council and dramatically defeated him.
12 He was too shocked to go on with his duties of locking the front door and winding his watch and the clock.
13 Nothing but two dismal tallow candles, each in a winding sheet.
14 But by her still halting course and winding, woeful way, you plainly saw that this ship that so wept with spray, still remained without comfort.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 128. The Pequod Meets The Rachel. 15 This slope was trampled hard and bare, and washed out in winding gullies by the rain.