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Rhosyn stood up as well, and walked up the stairs that wound up to her large room on the second floor.
The stony path wound up the hill past a cave shrine and spiralled between one last jumble of boulders.
I wound up jumping freight trains, going to Texas and not going to school, working in the oil fields, bucking hay, and doing all kinds of stuff.
To the family's relief, he finally left home and the marriage, and wound up in a psychiatric hospital.
When Jane's psychosis got especially scary, she wound up in a hospital casualty ward, where she was sent home with some sleeping pills.
The first-time visitor to Yorkshire could be forgiven for thinking he had wound up in a land of madmen.
Under the current rules, pensioners are ranked ahead of current workers when company schemes are wound up.
As a result, insolvent companies are not wound up but sit idle, usually heavily in debt, until they are struck off the register.
They wound up the regular season at home on Thanksgiving Day as they walloped the opposition.
The tone of the self-portrait with which he wound up his adolescence recalls something of Kepler's horoscope of himself.
The Shakers wound up their pre-season schedule with a 1-0 defeat against a full strength Barnsley side in midweek.
I spent the afternoon working on a website rebuild which wound up requiring an animated banner.
Churchill's response was a two-day debate on the conduct of the war, wound up with a point-by-point rebuttal of his critics.
Which is how I wound up at Panera with a little bit of time to kill the other day, and found the network to be hors de combat.
The inquiry was reconvened in Hull specifically to hear the new evidence, months after it was wound up.
Inveraray re-formed in 1957, but started facing difficulties again in 1972 and were officially wound up seven years later.
After her airport job wound up, Mrs Miller returned to night school, to refresh her clerical skills.
While the BBC wound up their weekly sports marathon with a results round-up, ITV gave us a spot of all-in wrestling.
We started imitating rather than innovating and wound up making faux American also-rans.
Of course I zigged when I should of zagged and wound up 2 kilometres out of my way.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He wound up his discourse with some theatrical talk about disinterestedness.
He wound up, of course, by telling of this donation from an unknown well-wisher.
Raffles went and wound up the throwing apparatus, and set the clay pigeon on the rest.
In spite of this the model runs very actively and will overbank if wound up very far.
It was a tiny yellow wooden bird that wound up with a key and sang three tunes for all the world like a music box.
The path wound up the Molinge, another sand-river which flows into the nake.
And with these visible proofs to back it, bushie wound up his eloquent little appeal.
My for-mer mas-ter gave me that name be-cause my clock-work al-ways ticks when it is wound up.
The bird sang until the ceremony was ended and then it wound up with one mad little, glad little trill.
It was very gloomy struggling against such affairs, wound up perhaps to fight until sundown.
The reel and metronome should be wound up after printing two dozen cards.
The mysterious sprinkling of marionettes not wound up by the watchmaker.
I wound up watching almost all the episodes, finally settling on four I thought our family would enjoy.
He began on Mauki, and wound up on Mauki, in the interval knocking down his wife and hammering all the boat boys.
Danglars' watch, one of Breguet's repeaters, which he had carefully wound up on the previous night, struck half past five.
Bit a chunk out of Baldy the size of a saucer, an' wound up by breakin' his own hind leg.
The roads through Glenwood wound up and down like thread on a spool.
Craven, who was not represented, said that he had a short temper and got wound up easily.
Roger had wound up on spaceman's Row in Venusport as a matter of course.
In other words, a human machine, doing its duty impenetrably when it was once wound up.
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