curvings

I fear, I very much fear, that my unhappy situation will draw me in to being guilty of evasion, of little affectations, and of curvings from the plain simple truth which I was wont to delight in, and prefer to every other consideration.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

It must be ground down to smooth unbroken planes, harmonious curvings, shapeliness — harmonies of arc and line and angle!

The Metal Monster 2004

Something dark appeared, and then straight lines and exact curvings.

This World Is Taboo Murray Leinster 1935

She was a curious gypsyish type, for all her _Rue de la Paix_ curvings and slim, inevitable folds and pleats;

While Caroline Was Growing Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon 1918

The lively hues, the lovely curvings and the fragrant tender flesh of earth's women were deft to cast their spells; but presently I knew this magic was only of the body.

The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions 1917

One long brown arm, tender with curvings, balanced the cotton; the other, poised, balanced the slim swaying body.

The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel 1915

Bedient turned into the thick, thorny undergrowth, which lined the eastern wall of the Inlet, and made his way around its devious curvings, silently and slowly.

Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel Will Levington Comfort 1905

Sometimes it steered direct for the centre arch; then, as if seized with a new impulse, turned away and curled itself about the first one; then unwound slowly, and bending low, with quick, snake-like curvings, crossed the river, passing at length through the farthest arch.

The Junior Classics — Volume 6 Old-Fashioned Tales William Patten 1902

He watched the free movement of her waist, and the curvings and flyings of her short tennis skirt.

Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899

Now, the curvings of her drapery from the elegant waistband were no longer a provocation.

Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899