1 It swerved at the bottom of the hill and disappeared; but it had such a lovely easy curve, of knights riding and ladies on palfreys.
2 He laid his hand on her shoulder, and softly, gently, it began to travel down the curve of her back, blindly, with a blind stroking motion, to the curve of her crouching loins.
3 And there his hand softly, softly, stroked the curve of her flank, in the blind instinctive caress.
4 She backed slowly round the curve, out of sight of the road, locked the car, and got down.
5 She took it obediently, and he watched the full curve of her hips as she went up the first stairs.
6 Viewed sideways, the closing-line of her lips formed, with almost geometric precision, the curve so well known in the arts of design as the cima-recta, or ogee.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night 7 As he spoke the gleam of the sidelights of a carriage came round the curve of the avenue.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In I. A Scandal in Bohemia 8 A steep curve of heath-clad land, an outlying spur of the moor, lay in front of us.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 6. Baskerville Hall 9 In its cold light I saw beyond the trees a broken fringe of rocks, and the long, low curve of the melancholy moor.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 6. Baskerville Hall 10 The moon was low upon the right, and the jagged pinnacle of a granite tor stood up against the lower curve of its silver disc.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ... 11 There was the same shortening of the pinna, the same broad curve of the upper lobe, the same convolution of the inner cartilage.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box 12 He is extremely tall and thin, his forehead domes out in a white curve, and his two eyes are deeply sunken in his head.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem 13 A minute later a carriage and engine could be seen flying along the open curve which leads to the station.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem 14 He had turned also, and still kept his distance until the curve of the road hid them from my sight.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST 15 At the same instant an empty dog-cart, the horse cantering, the reins trailing, appeared round the curve of the road and rattled swiftly towards us.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST