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• Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.
• to wind thread on a spool or into a ball
• Whether to wind / The woodbine round this arbour.
• It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
• Please wind that old-fashioned alarm clock.
• Sleep, and I will wind thee in arms.
• Vines wind round a pole.  The river winds through the plain.
• He therefore turned him to the steep and rocky path which[...]winded through the thickets of wild boxwood and other low aromatic shrubs.
• The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea.
• The hounds winded the game.
• The long and winding road / That leads to your door / Will never disappear.
• to turn and wind a fiery Pegasus
• Gifts blind the wise, and bribes do please / And wind all other witnesses.
• Were our legislature vested in the prince, he might wind and turn our constitution at his pleasure.
• You have contrived[...]to wind / Yourself into a power tyrannical.
• little arts and dexterities they have to wind in such things into discourse
• to wind a rope with twine
• Please wind up that old-fashioned alarm clock.
• Eww. Someone just passed wind.
• As they accelerated onto the motorway, the wind tore the plywood off the car's roof-rack.
• The winds in Chicago are fierce.
• Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
• the wind of a cannon ball;  the wind of a bellows
• After the second lap he was already out of wind.
• The fall knocked the wind out of him.
• If my wind were but long enough to say my prayers, I would repent.
• Steve caught wind of Martha's dalliance with his best friend.
• The wind blew through her hair as she stood on the deck of the ship.
• Their instruments were various in their kind, / Some for the bow, and some for breathing wind.
• Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain.
• When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.
• Nor think thou with wind / Of airy threats to awe.
• Something higher must lie at the back of that eager response to pack-music and winded horn — something born of the smell of the good earth
• The boxer was winded during round two.
• I can’t run another step — I’m winded.