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Example sentences for "deviously"

Lexicographically close words:
devils; deviltries; deviltry; devint; devious; devis; devise; devised; devisee; deviser
  1. Slowly and deviously we straggled across the landscape.

  2. Hour after hour Zeederberg's post-cart and all that therein was straggled deviously across the landscape, bumping along the rutty road, creaking and craking, swaggling from side to side behind the blocky hoofs of eight mules.

  3. Feet impatient of road-tramping can reach it a little more deviously by turning off to the left, nearly a mile beyond Wealdstone, at the “Alma.

  4. In front of us, deviously ascending the long slope, was the Asylum party; the keepers, exceedingly drunk, being assisted to the station by the Lunatics.

  5. We wandered deviously among groups of country people, anchored in conversation, or moving, still in conversation, as irresistibly as a bog-slide.

  6. Still, if one wanders from the trail far enough and deviously enough, he may chance upon a few thousand square miles which he may have all to himself.

  7. On the other hand, no matter how far and how deviously he may wander, the possibility always remains that he may stumble, not alone upon a deserted cabin, but upon an occupied one.

  8. A man it was; with a thick smear across his face, and about his head the source of the dark trickle that sought the gutter deviously over the broken flags.

  9. Meantime Dicky, minded to know if his adventure had made any stir in the house, carried his way deviously toward home.

  10. On either side the bare stubble, stretching away from the track which led deviously to the scarce discernible hamlets here and there.

  11. Her parentage is shrouded in mystery, and the story concerns the secret that deviously works to the surface.

  12. There deviates nature, and here wanders will: but that God in his infinite goodness, deviously turns the natural bias of its malignity to the advancement of human happiness.


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