What is "wynd"

Usage examples of "wynd".

Grand and great, pious and wise, decent, wretched and terrible folk, of every sort, had preceded Auld Jock to his lodging in a steep and narrow wynd, and nine gusty flights up under a beautiful, old Gothic gable.

There they laid him in a plain box of white deal that stood on the pavement, closed it, and went away down the wynd on a necessary errand.

Tailed by scuffling gamins, the strange little procession moved quickly down the wynd and turned into the roaring Cowgate.

But he trotted down the very middle of the wynd, head and tail low, and turned unheeding into the Saturday-evening roar of the Cowgate.

He himself, remorseful, had gone with the Biblereader from the Medical Mission in the Cowgate to the dormer-lighted closet in College Wynd, where Auld Jock had died.

I kept view of him till he vanished towards Leith Wynd, and by that time the two strangers had come close up under our window.

But while, sunk in a not very profound reverie, he was in the act of turning the corner of a narrow wynd, he was all but knocked down by a girl whom another in the crowd had pushed violently against him.

I had a general notion of the place, and knew that if I kept down the river I could turn up a lane called the Water Wynd, and get to the station without traversing any of the main streets.

He and his pals had picketed all the approaches to the show, and when I turned into the Water Wynd I found a fellow there, who at the sight of me blew a whistle.

There was nobody in the Wynd but some children playing, and the odds were four to one.

The obvious course of safety was to run up the Wynd towards the High Street, where I might find help.

I hit out at the nearest, saw him go down, and then doubled up the Wynd and into a side alley on the right.

Minutes later they stood once more on solid ground, in a dark reeking wynd some half mile from the Hi roux residence.

She reached out to take a piece of march pane from a dish at her side as Misses Chet wynd finished playing her piece.

Dwellers in the tenements darted up wynds and blind closes, climbed twisting turnpike stairs to windy roosts under the gables, or they scuttled through noble doors into foul courts and hallways.