Over the green squares of the fields and the low curve of a wood

[Peter Jiong]

Over the green squares of the fields and the low curve of a wood there rose in the distance a grey, melancholy hill, with a strange jagged summit, dim and vague in the distance.

Rolling pasture lands curved upward on either side of us, and old gabled houses peeped out from amid the thick green foliage, but behind the peaceful and sunlit countryside there rose ever, dark against the evening sky, the long, gloomy curve of the moor, broken by the jagged and sinister hills.

The wagonette swung round into a side road, and we curved upward through deep lanes worn by centuries of wheels, high banks on either side.
(From Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles）

What does “the low curve of a wood” and “curve of the moor”look like？Any pictures or photos？
What does “curved upward” mean？

 

[Barque]

In the first three examples, "curved" refers to the outline or edge of the thing being talked about. It was curved.

we curved upward

The path curved. The wagonette followed that curved path.

 

[5jj]

This is a road that curves to the left.

 

[Rover_KE]

Peter Jiong, you posted the same thread here: https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/curve.4011730/

Please don't post the same question to different forums simultaneously. Post on one forum only, wait for responses and then, only if you are disappointed with/confused by the responses (or there aren't any), post on another forum and include a link to the first forum thread.

(emsr2d2)

 

[Peter Jiong]

This is a road that curves to the left.

Thank you. So "curve" mean "a line bending left or right " not "bending up or down"?

 

[Peter Jiong]

In the first three examples, "curved" refers to the outline or edge of the thing being talked about. It was curved.



The path curved. The wagonette followed that curved path.

Does "curved upward" mean "changed direction to left or right and at the same time rose" or "bending like an upward line"?

 

[Skrej]

'Curved' in this context means not in a sharp or steep line. The roads and hills had a gentle vertical rise instead of a sharp steep slope. It also suggests that the difference in elevation may not have been very substantial since it was such a gradual increase.

The road may very well have curved to either the left or right as it climbed. We aren't told. It may have even curved back and forth in a serpentine manner, as is common when paths follow the natural terrain.

Perhaps something like this.



Or here's another example, passing through the Yorkshire moors.

 

[tedmc]

the low curve of a wood

I think "wood" above does not mean a tree trunk or branch, but an area covered by trees, which appears as low-lying in the scenery of rolling pasture fields. The whole description is very poetic, using "curve" repeatedly.