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Meanings of tortuous path in English

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Usage of tortuous path in English
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But she was in haste to get out of her tortuous path.
The Red Lily — Volume 03
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It was I that lured-thatended by luring-Beatainto the tortuous path-
Rosmersholm
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Isabel waits for me to follow the tortuous path of my father's plotting.
The Kingmaker’s Daughter
4
It was a long, long, tortuous path, but it came to an end.
The Baronet's Bride; Or, A Woman's Vengeance
5
What to do next, what tortuous path to try, he did not know.
The Ordeal: A Mountain Romance of Tennessee
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As Branasko preceded him down the tortuous path, Johnston ate the raw fish eagerly.
The Land of the Changing Sun
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The tortuous path was catching up with her, too.
The Descent
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Then they turned into this narrow, tortuous path over the hillside and were lost to view.
The Hollow of Her Hand
9
She ran swiftly down the tortuous path, Spring following after her and dressing as he went.
The Last Galley; Impressions and Tales
10
But Russian diplomacy loves the tortuous path.
The Story of Russia
11
He looked, and saw a tortuous path winding downward through bogs and poisonous fens and bitter pools.
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 01
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His genius for deceiving them in small ways led them slowly up the tortuous path to great power.
The new yorker
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Required by the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law, the rule has followed a tortuous path toward fruition.
Reuters
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Foiled in his first attempt, the vindictive Ming-shu now creeps towards his end by a more tortuous path.
Kai Lung's Golden Hours
15
The seeds took a tortuous path.
Wired
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The disaster adds one more bend to the tortuous path that Brazilian agricultural products must take to global markets.
Reuters
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