They advanced slowly and by a very tortuous course, so as to avoid the rocks and shallows, and at length, just above the bridge, they came to a wider and smoother passage of water: and here Forester ordered the oars out.
Foot by foot he forged his tortuous way across the open and onward.
At the end of a few tortuous minutes, which seemed hours of suffering, he saw the bottom of Orlick's feet.
Then in wretched contrast to Belle-Ann's glittering conquest below, Lem recounted his capture by the revenuer, and his tortuous measure of months in prison.
The actual distance travelled along this tortuous ridge was reckoned at fifty miles, and eight more had been added on the other side.
The narrow and tortuous channel which connected Lake Alexandrina with Encounter Bay was impracticable even for a boat.
But the longest lane has its turning, and this tortuous channel also had an end.
All around are the still tortuous streets of a Moorish town, though the roofs of the houses are tiled in ridges of Moorish pattern, as those of Tangier were when occupied by the English two hundred years ago, and as those of El K'sar are now.
Its tortuous streets and small houses, however, testify as to its origin, and its Moorish castle still appears to guard the narrow ascent by which alone it can be reached from the land, for it crowns a river-girt rock.
The city itself is very Moorish in appearance, with its narrow tortuous streets and gloomy buildings, but I know of no remarkable legacy of the Moors there.
These vessels traverse the ovary nearly in parallel lines, forming numerous minute twigs, which have an irregular knotty appearance from their tortuous condition, and appear to be chiefly distributed to the Graafian vesicles.
Here he found where Mog and Alurna had started their tortuous descent.
And so, gritting her teeth and tensing her muscles to control their trembling, she lowered herself over the brink and began the tortuous descent.
He went on down, and kept going, until he reached the bottom of the biggest and most tortuous coulee in his neighborhood.
It would be wiser for them to run down, to the bottoms of those gashed and tortuous gullies, and escape by zig-zagging along the dry stream beds.
She did not know that it had been a mighty struggle of three days' duration; that the transformation had been a slow, tortuous thing to him.
The unanimous surprise of the company before whom I uttered these words, soon convinced me that I had confounded mental with bodily obliquity, and that there was nothing tortuous about the old lady but her deeds.
But some little deviation from the precise line of rectitude, might have been winked at in sotortuous and stigmatic a frame.
The beach was impassable; here was no wide and easy road to the east, such as he had thought to find; to gain the sandbar he had now to thread a tortuous and uncertain way through the bewildering dunes.
It had a tortuous course, and when I left it, was turning to the westward.
It had a very tortuous course, coming from south-west and turning east a little below our camp, which was in a bend of the creek.
The men of keenest insight and best judgment feared his unmasked efforts less than they feared Wilkinson's dark and tortuous treachery.
The attempt, of course, excited and alarmed the Spaniards, and gave a new turn to their tortuous diplomacy.
One of the most unjust attacks of the enemies of religion against her friends is, to attribute bad faith to them, to accuse them of having in every thing false intentions, tortuous and interested views.
All the way along the river, from here to beyond Coblenz, the Rhine is a succession of constantly changing views as the boat winds its way around the tortuous channel, every one more beautiful and picturesque than its predecessor.
There are long walks, tortuous labyrinths, tables everywhere under trees, and it is filled with all sorts of attractions to take money from the visitor.
The woods through which we passed were huge pine trees, among which the narrow path wound its tortuous course.
Still the river course is so tortuous that every reach is not a head one; sometimes, indeed, we can lay one reach on one tack and the next reach on the other tack.
These harmless people dwell in half-a-dozen narrow tortuous streets and bazaars, in one corner of the old City.
As we marched down the steep descent to the Jordan Valley we had on our left the Wadi Kelt, which wound its tortuouscourse through the boulders at the bottom, hundreds of feet sheer below us.
I walked quickly and lightly, like as one does when following tortuous paths on a mountain slope.
We can, however, use the same means of transportation that we have hitherto used so liberally, imagination, and upon that airy and convenient ship we can descend the swift and tortuous stream.
