Her features were as firm in repose as those of a Greek bust, and her great dark eyes were arched over by two brows so black, so thick, and so delicately
curved, that the eye turned away from the harsher details of the face to marvel at their grace and strength.
Rolling pasture lands curved upward on either side of us, and old gabled houses peeped out from amid the thick green foliage, but behind the peaceful and sunlit countryside there rose ever, dark against the evening sky, the long, gloomy curve of the moor, broken by the jagged and sinister hills.
The wagonette swung round into a side road, and we curved upward through deep lanes worn by centuries of wheels, high banks on either side, heavy with dripping moss and fleshy hart's-tongue ferns.
The Neckar is in many places so narrow that a person can throw a dog across it, if he has one; when it is also sharply
curved in such places, the raftsman has to do some pretty nice snug piloting to make the turns.
Over the gently rising plain
curved the white road which leads inland, usually flecked with travellers, but now with scarce a living form upon it, so completely had the lists drained all the district of its inhabitants.
Wouldn't you like if your tails were--so--
Curved in the shape of a Cupid's bow?
There she hangs up her
curved bow and her arrows, and heads and leads the dances, gracefully arrayed, while all they utter their heavenly voice, singing how neat-ankled Leto bare children supreme among the immortals both in thought and in deed.
On more accounts than one, a pity it is that the whale does not possess this prehensile virtue in his tail; for I have heard of yet another elephant, that when wounded in the fight,
curved round his trunk and extracted the dart.
When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there-- in sunny weather--stretched at full length, asleep and blissful, with her furry belly to the sun and a paw
curved over her nose.
And in the westward sky, I saw a
curved pale line like a vast new moon.
The latter dodged the first charge, drew a wicked-looking
curved blade from beneath its red robe, spread its wings and dived for its antagonist.
Her eyes and hair were hazel-nut color; and her teeth, the upper row of which she displayed freely, were like fine Portland stone, and sloped outward enough to have spoilt her mouth, had they not been supported by a rich under lip, and a finely
curved, impudent chin.