rewinding

Updated: June 8, 2025

We were soon out of the town; the night had closed in; it was very dark, in spite of a few stars; the path was rugged and precipitous, sometimes skirting the very brink of perilous cliffs, sometimes delving down to the seashore there stopped by rock or wave and painfully rewinding up the ascent. "It is an ugly path, sir, but it saves four miles; and anyhow the road is a bad one."

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - A Strange Story — Volume 06