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...The streets were narrow, tortuous, and mostlyevil-smelling, with a mixture of stale fish and damp cellar odours...   The streets were narrow, tortuous, and mostlyevil-smelling, with a mixture of stale fish and damp cellar odoursの読み方
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...     His eyes scanned the river as far down-stream asthe tortuous channel would permit, but there was no sign of the Russianor his dugoutの読み方
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...   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の読み方
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...   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の読み方
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...   The country is all so very flat that the riversdown here are of necessity tortuousの読み方
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...   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の読み方
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...   From the northeast side the summit of themesa can be reached by a rough and tortuous burro trailの読み方
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...   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の読み方
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...   The road is a well-worn path flagged in places,uneven, and irregular, following at varying heights the upward course ofthe tortuous riverの読み方
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...   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の読み方
Thomas Mitchell 「Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia」

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