The provisions were brought along on pack mules, and the artillery had to take a roundabout route twelve miles longer.
Keep your eyes open while I am gone," said the major, and moved off in a roundabout way for Fort Bedford.
While Tom's ears caught bits of the conversation roundabout his eyes paid attention to the gambling table and on two occasions he half arose from his chair to object profanely to the way Stevens played; but each time he was not quite sure.
Abner had got hold of the idea of limited partnership and had sought to apply it, in roundabout fashion, to the matrimonial relation.
Clytie, after the first roundabout view from the front of the bluff.
After The Newcomes the quality of Thackeray's work, or at least of his novels (for the lectures and the Roundabout Papers stand apart) declined.
The next morning I set out early to walk back to L'Isle by a roundaboutway which took me over the hills to Saumane, where I had heard that there was an ancient castle still inhabited.
In a roundabout way almost all of this has been preserved to us and it naturally forms the greatest source of our knowledge of his activity.
This roundabout way has now been closed by genuine history.
We thought that it was for us to lead our time by a roundabout way through the historical Jesus, as we understood Him, in order to bring it to the Jesus who is a spiritual power in the present.
But that is precisely the description of the Jesus of modern historical theology; why, then, make this long roundabout through scepticism?
The Rio Grande has here cut a deep valley by a roundabout course from the mountains to the plains so that access to the region is over bordering elevations.
The Englishman with whom Thackeray had most in common was Richard Steele, as these "Roundabout Papers" show plainly enough.
Thus, in a roundabout sort of way, the child ought to have been thankful to the governess; and perhaps, in a roundabout sort of way, he was.
And that's how, in a roundabout sort of way, we got Mr. Morton.
Ivan Ossipovitch approached the subject in a roundabout way, almost in a "whisper, but kept getting a little muddled.
They learned by roundabout means that he was back in Petersburg, but that he was not to be met in the same society as before; he seemed to be in hiding.
The other road is roundabout and full of ruts besides.
Owing to the floods, they took a roundabout route, but half an hour's drive through sleet and rain brought them to Cheverley Chase.
We've come such a roundabout route, I scarcely know," replied Everard.
There was indeed a railroad, but this followed a roundabout route by the coast.
The arguments of naval strategy which Captain Mahan had long been urging had received striking demonstration in the long and roundabout voyage which the Oregon was obliged to take.
Before long her inseparable companion, Miss Cum-ho, appeared, and considerably amused us by her roundabout inquiries after my friend L.
Confound you for a stupid chatterer: have I not told you a hundred times that your roundabout way of stating the most simple facts would certainly get you into trouble some day or other?
Jeanne-Armande was journeying to Weston this time by a roundabout way.
I tracked him from that moment--at a distance, of course, and in roundabout ways, so that he would not suspect.
His narrow but remarkable craft is shown in the long account he gives of the intricate and roundabout ways he selected for spending the money he had stolen.
Only a drop of liquid introduced into the blood--not in the common roundabout way, by pouring down the throat, but direct injection into the veins.
That process belongs to the fact that criticism, roundabout him, is somehow futile and tasteless.
