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Meanings of devious route in English

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Usage of devious route in English
1
Betty disregarded his advice, and continued her devious route to the hillside.
The Spy
2
They took a devious route, but it led them to the public prisons.
The Bravo: A Tale
3
It's a winding, devious route the road takes through the trees.
Green Fancy
4
When it grew dark, we returned to the road by a devious route.
The forgotten soldier
5
He had reached Albuquerque by a strange and devious route of zigzags and back-trackings.
Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a ...
6
For a member of the secret police, he was certainly taking a devious route.
The Status Civilization
7
To make certain, I took the by-streets and meandered by a devious route to the station.
The Blind Spot
8
By the devious route they were compelled to take the distance was doubled, more than doubled.
North of Fifty-Three
9
Soon afterwards I went abroad, and made my way by a devious route to Voban's house.
The Seats of the Mighty, Volume 4
10
The conversation had come, by some devious route, to Vegetarianism; and the clergyman was disapproving of it.
Love's Pilgrimage: A Novel
11
So a more devious route was charted.
The Great Book of Amber
12
By a devious route, but with unfailing precision, they had come homing back to the same old subject.
Uneasy Money
13
The journey thither was made by way of the Malay Peninsula, a devious route still followed by Chinese junks.
The Pagan Tribes of Borneo / A Description of Their Physical Mor...
14
Much mystified, Alexina ran her car off the road and followed her niece by a devious route toward the house.
The Sisters-In-Law: A Novel of Our Time
15
By a devious route known to himself Gene led them through many little grassy ravines, and over ridges, gradually upward.
Two on the Trail: A Story of the Far Northwest
16
I must set out now, and travel by a devious route, nearly a hundred miles, with all the dispatch I can possibly make.
In a glass darkly
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