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Meanings of tortuous course in English

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Usage of tortuous course in English
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The tortuous course of the river added much to the scenic effect.
Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar...
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However promising a tortuous course may look, it will certainly end in disaster.
Love to the Uttermost / Expositions of John XIII.-XXI.
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Most capillaries had a long and tortuous course and numerous capillary sprouts were identified.
Pubmed
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A tortuous course of the BA leads to an underestimation of its anatomic length.
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It had a tortuous course, and when I left it, was turning to the westward.
Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the ...
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Between them, the Nalen took a tortuous course, turbulently fighting its way over the rocks.
Millennium
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Thorwald will tell you all about our tortuous course in reaching our present condition, if you wish.
Daybreak; A Romance of an Old World
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With that patience which the frontiersman has learned from the Indian he followed a tortuous course through the brush.
Oh, You Tex!
9
The tortuous course of politics, made so by unprincipled men, renders the truly upright man usually a poor politician.
The Memories of Fifty Years / Containing Brief Biographical Noti...
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The tortuous course of that perilous descent occupied their full attention, but, at length, they reached the valley in safety.
The Story of the Foss River Ranch: A Tale of the Northwest
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The river had a peculiar uniformity of width and would therefore but for the tortuous course, have resembled a canal.
Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume...
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Away goes a little cream-colored meadow-moth in the most tortuous course he is capable of, and away goes Socialis in pursuit.
Wake-Robin
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The trees followed the tortuous course of the cañon, and two men that we saw far below us looked like pigmies.
Byways Around San Francisco Bay
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The district was like a small Switzerland, and as I went forward my tortuous course shut out the path behind me.
Dracula's Guest
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It flows at the bottom of a gully about fifteen feet deep, which traverses the broad valley in a most tortuous course.
The Lands of the Saracen / Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Si...
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Ahead the track wound up the canon, cunningly following the tortuous course of the little river to be sure of practicable grades.
The Spenders: A Tale of the Third Generation
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