...The streets were narrow, tortuous, and mostlyevil-smelling, with a mixture of stale fish and damp cellar odours...
Baroness Orczy 「The Scarlet Pimpernel」
... His eyes scanned the river as far down-stream asthe tortuous channel would permit, but there was no sign of the Russianor his dugout...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「The Beasts of Tarzan」
...My house is a couple of miles from the station, and we have to pass through a considerable part of the old town, where the streets are narrow and tortuous and progress necessarily slow...
Anthony Hope 「Rupert of Hentzau」
...Curiously enough, only a short while later we had an exactly similaradventure with a rhino, as owing to the tortuous nature of the path, wewalked right into it before we were aware...
J. H. Patterson 「The Man-eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures」
...The country is all so very flat that the riversdown here are of necessity tortuous...
David Livingstone 「The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873」
...So well itdirects its tortuous flight that, in spite of all the obstacles to beevaded, it arrives in a state of perfect freshness, its great wingsintact, without the slightest flaw...
J. H. Fabre Bernard Miall 「Social Life in the Insect World」
...From the northeast side the summit of themesa can be reached by a rough and tortuous burro trail...
Victor Mindeleff and Cosmos Mindeleff 「A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola」
...This point I have named PointHillock,* (* Point Hillock is the east point of Hinchinbrook Island,which is separated from the main by a narrow and tortuous channel...
James Cook 「Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World」
...The road is a well-worn path flagged in places,uneven, and irregular, following at varying heights the upward course ofthe tortuous river...
George Ernest Morrison 「An Australian in China」
...I foundthis scrub full of holes, that obliged me to pursue a very tortuous course,impeded as I was too by the rugged stems and branches...
Thomas Mitchell 「Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia」
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