A tight winding of chains had burst.
Some embrace the geekiness of piloting the barge: the challenge, say, of turning the boat at a tight "winding hole".
In the tight, winding streets of its chora, some paving stones have not only been edged in white but decorated with flowers, hearts, sailboats and slogans: "My Kimolos, my paradise".
The dead straight road cuts through the imposing landscape taking on the appearance of an airstrip before it funnels you down into the lower Engadin Valley in a series of fast, tight, winding hairpins.
Gruber, the 30th racer down the mountain, made up more than three-tenths of a second on the bottom of the tight, winding course and finished in 1 21.21 for his first career top-three finish.
Each cell must avoid being committed to any particular fate for the time being, so all its master regulator genes must be repressed by tight winding of the spools that hold their DNA.
All that remains is to climb a tight, winding stone staircase and then a wooden ladder that leads to a final door and, at last, like Dr. William Laidlaw Purves more than a century ago, you are atop the Norman bell tower at St. Clement's Church, squinting in the direction of the beach in search of prime golfing land.
Around a mile up the path lies the stone-built rural hamlet of Volastra, its tight, winding alleys ghostly quiet.
"We arrived at Joan's house in the beautiful Berkeley Hills around 1 p.m. after making the tricky navigation on the tight winding streets in my ridiculously large Ford F350 pickup, which was about as out of place on the streets of Berkeley as a vehicle could be.
Tight winding staircases with dappled light coupled with mod-cons like air conditioning and small hamaams.
