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  • His eyes are on it, but his mind is keeping track of the kid as he meanders through the shop, looking at things, like he might want to buy something.†   (source)
  • The result of this meandering inquiry is the book now before you.†   (source)
  • Every conversation meandered back to food.†   (source)
  • When they'd rounded the lake halfway, he could see water stretching away in a jagged meander to the south.†   (source)
  • Like a red snake, it slowly meandered across the stage, reached the edge, and dripped onto a chest below.†   (source)
  • The next morning I'd wake up tired and depressed, meandering through the school day, thinking constantly about what awaited at home.†   (source)
  • PRISONERS MEANDER AROUND THE COMPOUND, ALONE and in small groups.†   (source)
  • And one day it will hit him, walking along some meandering river, or gazing out at an untracked snowfield, that his father's disappearance is no longer an open, raw wound.†   (source)
  • Time seemed to have stretched and become meaningless anyway, its passage blurred by endless drinks and meandering conversations.†   (source)
  • They watched Hagrid meander tipsily up to the castle.†   (source)
  • The back porch of his house looked out on a tidal creek that meandered through a broad expanse of marshland.†   (source)
  • Purled and meandering lines drawn by knives; brain and bone exposed by stones; the rope still digging at his throat.†   (source)
  • Settlers arrived—mostly wayward souls and eccentrics who had meandered off the Oregon Trail.†   (source)
  • Celaena didn't hear him, and though they talked for a good hour afterward meandering through the grounds, she couldn't get her heart to calm.†   (source)
  • Langdon stared down at the meandering swatch of black.†   (source)
  • You did not come to hear foolish meanderings of a summer forgotten before your father was born.†   (source)
  • They walked the creek woods all the way to the zoo, meandering wordlessly throughout the snowy enchantment.†   (source)
  • Still, I brush my teeth before meandering down the hall, effectively killing another five minutes.†   (source)
  • It had baked all afternoon on a table by a south-facing window in the library, and now three fine meandering lines in the glaze, converging like rivers in an atlas, were all that showed.†   (source)
  • "What a mess," I heard him mutter to himself, trying to shake his pant leg loose of a blackberry vine that had meandered onto the walkway.†   (source)
  • Beyond is the vista he remembers so well: the residences laid out like a garden suburb with large houses in fake Georgian and fake Tudor and fake French provincial, the meandering streets leading to the employees' golf course and their restaurants and nightclubs and medical clinics and shopping malls and indoor tennis courts, and their hospitals.†   (source)
  • Cinder pulled back against the wall bordering the palace, out of the way as the citizens meandered past.†   (source)
  • "We're almost there," my father assured us as we crossed the Vistula, the river that meanders through the city.†   (source)
  • I loved visiting her there, loved those meandering talks we had, through the summer to the early autumn, sitting on that balcony together, talking about Hailsham, the Cottages, whatever else drifted into our thoughts.†   (source)
  • Earlier, the galleries had seemed fairly straightforward, a meandering but logical sequence where all tributaries flowed into the gift shop.†   (source)
  • Obviously a mixture of symbolic and character-based language, the text meandered around the page in no apparent order.†   (source)
  • They descended from the knoll and meandered toward Farthen Dur.†   (source)
  • Our dad was nearly gone—his (nasty) mind, his (miserable) heart, both murky as he meandered toward the great gray beyond.†   (source)
  • I meandered through the streets, which were filling up with end-of-the-workday traffic, and hoped I was headed toward downtown.†   (source)
  • When we had all assembled in the exterior garden, a maid led us through the entrance hall and down a beautiful meandering corridor to a small tatami room in the back.†   (source)
  • This road is like the meandering course of a life.†   (source)
  • We walked for hours through the city, long meandering walks that took in whole neighborhoods which we would pass through without buying a thing or speaking to anyone.†   (source)
  • Instead of crossing through it, we meandered over to the railroad tracks and walked the wood ties to the Mission.†   (source)
  • Jesus stood back up and together they continued their meandering toward the dock.†   (source)
  • As he combed the grounds in search of squatting nirvana, I stood outside, sometimes in the rain, sometimes in the snow, sometimes in the dark of night, often barefoot, occasionally just in my boxer shorts, knowing from experience that I didn't dare leave him unsupervised lest he decide to meander up the hill to visit the dogs on the next street.†   (source)
  • The size of the stones, its breathtaking height into the misty mountains, its endless snakelike meandering—it all made me gasp.†   (source)
  • In fact, this was the first time I'd ever seen them look so poorly focused, eyes meandering around the room, several of them on edge.†   (source)
  • If you are squeamish about driving on grass, it might take you ten minutes to meander through TMAWH.†   (source)
  • It wasn't impressive—just a swampy creek like the one that meandered through the Fenway greenbelt.†   (source)
  • The sermon had meandered from the pious Susanna to Rahab, the harlot of Jericho.†   (source)
  • The sky was a satin azure, dimmed slightly by the haze, the air cool and light with a meandering breeze.†   (source)
  • It came from far off, not the long, meandering way that we had come up the slope, but another way, up the spine of the hill, directly from the village.†   (source)
  • The legs themselves meandered strangely up to his knees, turning outward here, jagging inward there.†   (source)
  • I had never seen that before, and I remember thinking absently how they meandered along the scarred crevices of her face rather than in a straight line like they would on a smooth one.†   (source)
  • He followed the meandering path through the woods, roughly parallel to the fields of Östergarden.†   (source)
  • Some front walkways go straight to the door, and others meander in a curvy path.†   (source)
  • They meandered back to campus at a leisurely pace while Abby told him the latest news from home—her parents had patched things up for now, her dad agreeing to work on a more creative personal project, even going so far as to ask Abby to design artwork for an online fund-raiser to cover the recording costs.†   (source)
  • They were sailing very slowly up a river without banks that meandered between arid sandbars stretching to the horizon.†   (source)
  • Old Jesse did indeed meander back home soon afterward, but Mr. Jackson still always gave me an odd look whenever he saw me go by on my bike.†   (source)
  • For the next few minutes, they chatted as they meandered among the shelves.†   (source)
  • I thought it would be a miscellaneous meditation, Murray and Jack, half an hour's campus meander.†   (source)
  • The conversation meandered, circling back to technique and process.†   (source)
  • They bushwhacked up the valley, following elephant trails that meandered beside a little stream that ran through stands of olive trees and grassy meadows.†   (source)
  • After the ceremony, I walked back to the river and watched it meander on its way to where, many miles distant, it emptied into the Indian Ocean.†   (source)
  • However, in light of the meandering nature of the Rinds tree, they were not about to correct him.†   (source)
  • From my perch, I could see beyond Missing's east wall onto a quiet meandering road which descended and then disappeared, the hills rising just beyond, as if the road had gone underground before it emerged in the distance as a mere thread.†   (source)
  • The conversation meanders off the game.†   (source)
  • Facing up to it, he resigned as county agent after four years and, on land leased with borrowed money, created, in embryo, River Valley Farm (a name justified by the Arkansas River's meandering presence but not, certainly, by any evidence of valley).†   (source)
  • Sometimes the vice president will leave his desk to meander through the West Wing hallways, wishing for a meeting to attend or a decision to make.†   (source)
  • After a few weeks of meandering reappraisals, she was back at the clinic.†   (source)
  • Lower down, meandering a meadow so flat that its loops linked back upon themselves, it formed a maze of still, dark pools and grassy islands whose geography was constantly arranged and rearranged by beavers.†   (source)
  • After a mile, a breeze meanders past, and for a second, I think I smell smoke and death.†   (source)
  • Life here between the meandering dirt roads and skinny blacktop was full, rich, original and real, but harsh, hard, mean as a damn snake.†   (source)
  • He crushed out both their cigarettes, and they turned into each other wordlessly in an engrossing kiss just as Hungry Joe came meandering into the room without knocking to ask if Yossarian wanted to go out with him to look for girls.†   (source)
  • By the time Mohammed accelerated onto flatland at the bottom of the pass, the Indus had unclenched its muscles and relaxed to a muddy, meandering lakelike width.†   (source)
  • I drove until the four-lane highway crossed a meandering ravine about fifteen yards wide.†   (source)
  • When the snuffling stopped, he glanced down to see a wet trail that meandered from his wrist to elbow.†   (source)
  • When his general discovered that Maycomb was meandering in the hills while the Creeks were lurking in every pine thicket in the south, he dispatched a friendly Indian runner to Maycomb with the message, Move south, damn you.†   (source)
  • I watched as folks meandered to their seats or fussed with the overhead bins.†   (source)
  • Large cats and parrots meandered and fluttered about the village in harmony as though they, too, owned a part of this marvelous work of art.†   (source)
  • The setting was particularly picturesque, with orchards, stone walls, meadows of salt hay, and broad marshlands through which meandered numerous brooks and the Neponset River.†   (source)
  • Behind me, back where I had come from, the Xiao River meandered.†   (source)
  • Once, the narrow lane that led to them from an obscure country road near Loenen had been tidily gravelled; now it was a couple of faint ruts either side of a meandering strip of tall grass.†   (source)
  • With this in mind, she took a slow, meandering route back toward midtown and the rented darkroom.†   (source)
  • The trailer park was divided into meandering rows, most marked by rickety wooden signs with names like Roadrunner Lane or Seguro Street on them.†   (source)
  • Now the road meanders a little, now it cuts back away from the direction in which we should be going, then returns.†   (source)
  • And steel was a problem—buying it, fabricating it, and above all moving it through meander of tunnels to new catapult site.†   (source)
  • She started off at marching pace, then began to slow, to meander.†   (source)
  • Our jeep meanders through an open-air farmer's market, avoiding bicycles, stray chickens, and potholes deep enough to drown a goat.†   (source)
  • The air above the pool was veiled in steam, and chunks of floating ice drifted through the misty waters like meandering ghost ships.†   (source)
  • Another meanders through the woods to the chapel.†   (source)
  • They were sometimes ten and twenty layers deep, they would meander in circles, or zigzag, a hundred or more sailing about unimpeded.†   (source)
  • A creek that flowed year-round traversed the rest of the land, meandering across Aunt Myrtle's four hundred acres and providing ample water for our stock.†   (source)
  • The minutes from the last UDC meeting were boring, the topic meandering from side to side to discuss who had died and who was in the hospital and who had retired.†   (source)
  • Zooey put out a hand and stroked Bloomberg's arched back, once, twice, then quit, and got up from the coffee table and meandered across the room to the piano.†   (source)
  • Out of this trickled blood, which he watched meander to the edge of his hand.†   (source)
  • Over time the riders had fashioned a clear path, which went up over Bedley Hill and down the far side, where it meandered through several square miles of undeveloped county land.†   (source)
  • Most of the time, Homer ate before the sun's rays hit these mountaintops, but he waited until I got up at 6 A.M. As I cooked our "coat-hanger special" meat, Homer meandered over to me and sat on his stump.†   (source)
  • We're just meandering.†   (source)
  • Tear streaks had meandered down over the nurse's cheekbones.†   (source)
  • One hot summer day I was meandering aimlessly beside a little local creek when I came upon a stagnant pool.†   (source)
  • We stood on the roof, with the not-yet-working clock towering at our backs, and viewed all Jackson below, spread to its seeable limits, its green rim, where the still river-like Pearl River and the still-unpaved-over Town Creek meandered and joined together in their unmolested swamp, with "the country" beyond.†   (source)
  • The scent of new-mown grass was rank, sweet, warmly green to the nostrils, reminding me of countryside prospects and distances—fields and lanes perhaps not too different from those once meandered upon by the young Bobby Weed, whom Nathan had implanted like a pulsing lesion in my brain.†   (source)
  • The hours meandered past like slow, unhurrying snails.†   (source)
  • They dispersed solemnly, in picturesque groups, along the cleared paths, whose meanderings did not harmonize with the sorrowful deliberation of their step.†   (source)
  • It was one of a meandering row of mossy, green-roofed cottages lined up along a stream bank   (source)
    meandering = winding or twisting (not set out in a straight manner)
  • Her journey back was rather a meander than a march.   (source)
  • The tinkling of a piano meanders up through the window and to my ears.†   (source)
  • The river of snowmelt meandering through the center of the settlement was an open sewer.†   (source)
  • The route meandered through outcroPPings of broken shale blanketed with six inches of fresh snow.†   (source)
  • Here and there a stray person meandered around the library or up a corridor.†   (source)
  • His thoughts meandered until he abruptly said, "I didn't let them know who you are.†   (source)
  • A few streams and narrow roads cut meandering paths through the trees.†   (source)
  • In the morning, he meandered around Kofu.†   (source)
  • Following the fixed line, I Meandered through a vertical maze of crystalline blue stalagmites.†   (source)
  • I nodded in the direction of the scattered pigs that were meandering through the trees.†   (source)
  • Connor had other ideas and set a meandering pace on the winding road.†   (source)
  • Their camp spilled across the farm road that meandered around Camp Half-Blood's southeast perimeter.†   (source)
  • On that side meandered hundreds of deer.†   (source)
  • It made the wall look as if it were inscribed with strange, meandering hierogliphics.†   (source)
  • It was scary-seductive, it made us think she might trail into some unsteady meander.†   (source)
  • Rachelle slowed at the entrance and started to meander up the hill.†   (source)
  • The water was cold as ice but only a few inches deep, meandering between old trees.†   (source)
  • I took a walk to think and meandered down Old Shell Road, shaded by the king oaks.†   (source)
  • "Do they sell coffee there?" asked David, meandering toward the café.†   (source)
  • They sipped their tea and watched the groups and couples meander along the garden paths.†   (source)
  • He had no destination in mind and simply meandered around the city in a leisurely fashion.†   (source)
  • With his new ID, Cedric meanders into the huge, three-story Brown bookstore.†   (source)
  • ; but he was hard of hearing and would keep meandering.†   (source)
  • By then the sky had turned gray, and Ruth and I meandered back to the house.†   (source)
  • The similarity made me glance nervously around and step up my meandering.†   (source)
  • In human form, their eyes were often watery, and they had a meandering, indirect way of speaking.†   (source)
  • He chatted with Rolf and Lucia as they walked the scenic, meandering mile to the gate.†   (source)
  • What am I to do while you meander through your instruction?†   (source)
  • He meandered off into a long-winded reminiscence, but Harry had the distinct impression that Slughorn had not finished with him, and that he had not been convinced by Neville and Ginny.†   (source)
  • Looking down, Harry saw Grawp the giant meandering past, swinging what looked like a stone gargoyle torn from the roof and roaring his displeasure.†   (source)
  • The garden's Carderock gazebo—known as Shadow House—sits elegantly amid meandering pathways of stones dug from George Washington's private quarry.†   (source)
  • They did not dare remain in any area too long, so rather than staying in the south of England, where a hard ground frost was the worst of their worries, they continued to meander up and down the country, braving a mountainside, where sleet pounded the tent; a wide, flat marsh, where the tent was flooded with chill water; and a tiny island in the middle of a Scottish loch, where snow half buried the tent in the night.†   (source)
  • A silver thread of river bisected the field and there, nestling in the fold of a meander loop, was the proud oak.†   (source)
  • I think about the mornings waking up in my room at the top of the Black Barn to the voices of students outside in the field, arguing about poetry or philosophy; or the long winters, the breakfasts in steamed-up kitchens, meandering discussions around the table about Kafka or Picasso.†   (source)
  • In a library book on African public health, before we left home, I found a drawing of a worm as thin as a hair meandering across the front of a man's startled eyeball.†   (source)
  • Always elegantly dressed, he would meander across the room, stopping to chat with men working at different stations.†   (source)
  • The basement was a meandering complex of rooms so lightless I may as well have explored them blindfolded.†   (source)
  • Five miles meandering with a mazy motion, through wood and dale the sacred river ran, then reached the caverns measureless to man, and sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean.†   (source)
  • Though the exhibition was moderately crowded, still it had the sedate, meandering feel of a backwater, a certain vacuum-sealed calm: long sighs and extravagant exhalations like a room full of students taking a test.†   (source)
  • Flying Mountain is one of Molly's favorites—a steep five-hundred-foot ascent along a piney trail, a panoramic view of Somes Sound, a meandering descent that ends at Valley Cove, a pebbled beach where you can linger on large flat rocks, gazing at the sea, before circling back to your car or bike on a fire road carpeted with pine needles.†   (source)
  • When they reached the level crossing, after a three-mile walk along a narrow road, he saw the path he was looking for meandering off to the right, then dipping and rising toward a copse that covered a low hill to the northwest.†   (source)
  • I think a lot about Manaar as I meander down a cat's cradle of narrow alleyways, Manaar waiting to die in that room full of broken figures like him.†   (source)
  • Meandering through the tangled, rolling bottomland is the Stampede Trail, the route Chris McCandless followed into the wilderness.†   (source)
  • While Mae was still at Carleton, meandering between majors, from art history to marketing to psychology—getting her degree in psych with no plans to go further in the field—Annie had graduated, gotten her MBA from Stanford and was recruited everywhere, but particularly at the Circle, and had landed here days after graduation.†   (source)
  • I'll always remember you, homes," she said and placed her hand on my face; meandering scars across her arms.†   (source)
  • Thomas skipped and hopped ahead of us, clutching a plastic bag full of crusts, and we negotiated the meandering tourists with an ease born of years of practice, ducking out of the way of swinging backpacks, separating around posing couples and rejoining on the other side.†   (source)
  • Here they meandered in their tiny sailboats, tacking and coming about; they painted, hoed, swept, and planted when the mood for therapeutic work struck them, and lolled on the beach when they felt like it.†   (source)
  • He was staggered now to think of his own presumption in accepting his friends' offers to accompany him on this meandering, pointless journey.†   (source)
  • There was a time one would have received a bright and intricate response that would in turn have unfolded silly and weighty questions to which Emily gave her best answers; and while the meandering hypotheses they indulged were hard to recall in detail now, she knew she never spoke so well as she had to her eleven-year-old last-born.†   (source)
  • By contrast Hobie lived and wafted like some great sea mammal in his own mild atmosphere, the dark brown of tea stains and tobacco, where every clock in the house said something different and time didn't actually correspond to the standard measure but instead meandered along at its own sedate tick-tock, obeying the pace of his antique-crowded backwater, far from the factory-built, epoxy-glued version of the world.†   (source)
  • Leaving the pub felt like stepping into one of those heavily retouched photos that come loaded as wallpaper on new computers: streets of artfully decrepit cottages stretched into the distance, giving way to green fields sewn together by meandering rock walls, the whole scene topped by scudding white clouds.†   (source)
  • On Alex's map, nevertheless, the broken line meandered west from the Parks Highway for forty miles or so before petering out in the middle of trackless wilderness north of Mt. McKinley.†   (source)
  • It was almost seven years ago, in the last lazy, heat-slurred days of July, when the narrow streets around the castle were thick with tourists, and the air filled with the sound of their meandering footsteps and the chimes of the ever-present ice cream vans that lined the top of the hill.†   (source)
  • As flattering as Luke's appreciation was, what appealed to her most was the way he made everything appear easy, from the unflappable way he'd handled Brian to their meandering conversation.†   (source)
  • It wasn't much more than a meandering dirt lane, one car wide in spots, cutting through the blandness of sagebrush and ducking down to an anemic border river.†   (source)
  • Clinging to the railing, Max shouted furiously at his roommate while the pinlegs scuttled out from beneath the toppled chair and meandered about in a state of apparent confusion.†   (source)
  • The trail was confused and meandering, and yet its general direction was northward, toward the great forest of the elves.†   (source)
  • Night closed in around them, and the camp grew ever quieter as their conversation meandered from one topic to another.†   (source)
  • The right-hand fork followed the coast, meandering up along the shore toward Crackclaw Point, a dismal land of bogs and pine barrens; the left-hand ran through hills and fields and woods to Maidenpool.†   (source)
  • A slow little stream meandered through the wood, and there was one spot where it had eaten the ground away beneath a deadfall.†   (source)
  • After another ten minutes of fruitless searching, Max felt his nausea subside, only to be replaced by impatience as the ghost plodded on in a meandering path.†   (source)
  • There was a path of sorts, a meandering footpath of cracked stones overgrown with moss, half-buried beneath blown dirt and fallen leaves and made treacherous by thick brown roots pushing up from underneath.†   (source)
  • The Red Fork was wide and slow, a meandering river of loops and bends dotted with tiny wooded islets and frequently choked by sandbars and snags that lurked just below the water's surface.†   (source)
  • Dawson had one hand on the wheel, a posture achingly familiar to her from the meandering drives they used to take.†   (source)
  • Every day they marched, and every night she said her names, until finally the trees thinned and gave way to a patchwork landscape of rolling hills, meandering streams, and sunlit fields, where the husks of burnt holdfasts thrust up black as rotten teeth.†   (source)
  • Outside, he helped her into the front seat of his Peugeot sedan, and for the next forty-five minutes he spoke not a word as he followed a meandering path toward the center of Paris.†   (source)
  • Because, Ludovico Indian, problems of the intellect, including political questions, are much the same-puzzles and mazes in which you can meander for the rest of your life, that turn you hither and thither until you sometimes get so dizzy and confused that you don't know what's going on.†   (source)
  • The hill was steeper, and the path meandered back and forth through weeds and briars, wind-carved rocks, and twisted, thorny trees that clung tenaciously to the stony hillside.†   (source)
  • Meandering from one road to the next, he eventually found the waterfront, recalling that the town had been developed at the confluence of Boone Creek and the Pamlico River.†   (source)
  • The paved path meanders through a thick wood, taking him past the Hawthorn, Laurel, Sycamore, and Linden guest cabins on his three-minute journey.†   (source)
  • For a few minutes I meander through the crowd, eventually making my way to the dance stages, where I've spotted Laia and lzzi.†   (source)
  • It had stayed with Bobby, her memory of the river's source, and since her death...Well, he couldn't explain it, but whenever he looked at the Arkansas, it was for an instant transformed, and what he saw was not a muddy stream meandering across the Kansas plains, but what Nancy had described-a Colorado torrent, a chilly, crystal trout river speeding down a mountain valley.†   (source)
  • A rivulet of water tumbled over the edge of the bank and poured itself into a limpid pool before meandering off into the dim recesses of the forest.†   (source)
  • I ought to have a banner sewn, she thought as she led her tattered band up along Astapor's meandering river.†   (source)
  • So they walked back to Duke's house and got on their bicycles, crossing over Nicholasville Road and meandering through the neighborhoods to Paul's.†   (source)
  • The meandering conversation, the boastful tales at the dinner table, the delusions of grandeur—that was syphilis of the brain, not just the spinal cord.†   (source)
  • "I am lost at sea," she said as she limped along beside her meandering rivulet, "so perhaps I'll find some crabs, or a nice fat fish."†   (source)
  • So that after looking at her as she had asked, nothing occurred to him but to lower his eyes again in order to hide his embarrassment and continue the pretense of being lost among the sweet, meandering rivers of Alca Island until he could think of something else.†   (source)
  • He shoves the paper back in his pocket, grabs the overcoat, and begins a meandering walk, here and there, stretching for hours.†   (source)
  • A bubbling creek meandered into the lake from the base of the cliff to their right, and then back out, down the valley.†   (source)
  • She was crossing the bridge now, her tires singing, the Kentucky River meandering far below and the high charged energy of the previous night melting away.†   (source)
  • The car managed to carry on for twenty miles before its engine whined and it began to meander drunkenly.†   (source)
  • Anarchists were using the poles of their black banners to flail the crowd, and mounted cara-binieri were sidling upon their horses to herd them into a maze of meandering side streets.†   (source)
  • I came to the wall and turned to my right, meandering along it in the direction that would eventually lead me near the rec hall, and then, in turn, the girls' dorm.†   (source)
  • Birds darted over the trees, angry squirrels chattered, butterflies meandered from spot to spot, and a line of red ants marched past Eragon's boot, carrying small white larvae in their pincers.†   (source)
  • I meandered along Route 22, a narrow two-lane road overhung by giant trees that dropped long strands of light-green moss, which seemed to reach out and try to grab me.†   (source)
  • Sunlight twinkled through the leaves as they followed a meandering path through the trees before stopping at a long, low building set in a small clearing.†   (source)
  • The only paths in the forest were game trails, which were too narrow, steep, and meandering for their group.†   (source)
  • As they gazed at him with unblinking eyes, Orik related to the clanmeet how the seven black-clad dwarves had attacked Eragon and his guards while they were meandering among the tunnels underneath Tronjheim.†   (source)
  • Lush fields of wheat and apple orchards checkered the surrounding valley, irrigated by three meandering streams that funneled down from distant hills.†   (source)
  • Connor walked alongside him, whistling softly as they meandered past gas lamps that began to glow in the deepening dusk to light the icy walkways.†   (source)
  • BUTTINGHEADS The raid on the supply train went almost exactly as Roran had planned: three days after leaving the main body of the Varden, he and his fellow horsemen rode down from the lip of a ravine and struck the meandering line of wagons broadside.†   (source)
  • At this point the bluffs walled a pocket valley and the stream meandered between low banks cut in an alluvial field between the bluffs.†   (source)
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