Directly below a river skirted a small town, curved away to the southwest and finally disappeared into the haze.

To my right, upstream, the river curved away around a bend, the forest growing closer to the banks.

The river curved here; apparently, it encircled a quarter-mile stretch of ground.

Then the river curved to the right and the car didn't; updraft from the hills tilted it.

The river curved away and out of sight into the darkness.

Here the river curved back to join its old bed.

The river flowed close here, still wide, but curved away east soon after.

They streaked away from the lights, the buildings, the sounds of the ranch and into the open land where the river curved.

He came to the place where the river curved to the left, and peeped cautiously round the corner.

But except for the raw gully through which the brownish river curved, it was flat.