winding

Emma von der Tann followed her guide up a winding stairway which spiraled within a tower at the end of a long passage.

Look, he's winding up the watch of his wit: by and by it will strike.

Between the Great and the Little Bear, we can distinguish a winding procession of smaller stars.

There was but a winding trail to the top, and few had made acquaintance with it.

The minister reaches this enclosure by means of two winding stairways, curtained with red drapery along their sides.

He thought this measure was a very fitting, if not an indispensable, adjunct to the winding up of the great difficulty.

On it goes down a winding slope, file-closers edging in between the sets of fours as the roadway narrows.

When it had run down for want of winding, to his simple mind it had 'died.'

All this, however, was tame; but the winding up of the spectacle in a quiet natural way.

Here he deflected toward the mountains, taking the zigzag path that ran like a winding thread among the rocks as it mounted.