Wending

On the third evening our party was again wending to the same house, where we were to see a special feature of native weddings – the bride dancing for money. ❋ Unknown (1887)

At its best at both ends of the day – for breakfast brandy and chocolate – and for a last one before going on to a club or wending home. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A surface water spill into, say, the Missouri River, could send a plume of toxic crude wending its way 450 miles downstream, according to Stansbury, the university's associate chair of environmental and water resources engineering. ❋ Frances Beinecke (2011)

Other choices have been wending their way through hearings this week. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It was a life assembled from nothing remarkable, that was no more extraordinary than puddles splashing under sandaled feet or a forgiving breeze wending along the backs of sweaty knees, but it had been mine entirely and even now—diminished though I had become, squeezed though I was into the handful of minutes that framed each work day—I still had sun. ❋ Md Meghan Maclean Weir (2011)

An ant wending its way toward a crack in the sidewalk can hold his interest for at least five minutes. ❋ Jack Canfield (2011)

Last night, after dinner, Spooky and I had Surra and Shaharrazad (respectively) out in the Eastern Plaguelands, slowly wending our way along the hellish avenues of Stratholme, and we were nearing the end of the dungeon, when the instance server had some sort of seizure and went down. ❋ Greygirlbeast (2009)

Since that time, the project has spent six years wending its way through the bureaucracy. ❋ Henry J. Stern (2011)

Most of the other cases have been dismissed or are still wending their way through the lower courts. ❋ Ethan Rome (2011)

It's certainly true that the poinsettia originated in the south of Mexico, wending its way to the United States of America in the admiring custody of one Joel Roberts Poinsett. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Still, too much wending can result in a different kind of want, all process and no delivery -- the avoidance of the power of real power. ❋ Sharon O'Connell (2011)

In the wake of the Abdulmutallab conviction, everyone from the Washington Post editorial board to former Bush administration official Charles "Cully" Stimson at the Heritage Foundation have been emphasizing the value of federal prosecutions of terrorism suspects -- and warning of the danger of a highly politicized bill now wending its way through Congress that could end them. ❋ Daphne Eviatar (2011)