Much of our hard work had been lost in circuitous twists around troublesome pressure lines and high, irregular fields of very old ice.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
The route from Annoatok to this point, following the circuitous twists over sea and land, was almost as long as that from Annoatok to the Pole, but we had covered it in less than a month.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
She tore the wrappings of brown paper and newspaper from a little brown box, opened it and drew out a heavy, old-fashioned necklace made of links and twists of gold, with a locket set with rubies and pearls at the end of it.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard