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The brain of the prizefighter does not convolve: he relies more on his "jabs" than on thoughts that burn —and those who live by the hammer die by the hammer.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers by Elbert Hubbard

Salmon don’t make up a monolithic block, but are a mosaic of populations, particular to their place, each convolved with certain environmental conditions and with other species they support.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 7, 2021

The galleries, courtyards and abodes of the Vatican Palace are ancient, convolved, mysterious.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now that I had in my possession these keys, I might slip from the house with my mother, when she was well, and together we might run for— My fancy convolved places of flight.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

On the farther side, to which we now hastily scrambled, the wood was not so dense, the web of creepers not so solidly convolved.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

But a volume is likewise 'as much as seems convolved at once;' an expression hardly intelligible; and it is a book.

From Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works by Anonymous

The Lady said as much as breath will bear; To happier sisters inconceivable: Contemptible to veterans of the fair, Who show for a convolving pearly shell, A treasure of the shore, their written book.

From Poems — Volume 3 by George Meredith

So when a hundred streams explore their way, Down the same slopes, convolving to the sea, They boil, they bend, they force their floods amain, Swell o'er obstructing crags, and sweep the plain.

From The Columbiad by Joel Barlow

It rises to the height of from ten to fifteen feet, with a rough, greyish trunk, from whence start numerous fantastic-shaped branches, convolving and wreathing their long, naked arms on all sides.

From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous

To accelerate the desiccation of rose leaves and other petals, the Drying House is fitted up with large cupboards, which are slightly warmed with a convolving flue, heated from a fire below.

From The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants by George William Septimus Piesse

There you see it above, and to a great height, shaping into varied and convolving forms.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various