tortuosity
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These changes give rise to marked tortuosity of the vessels.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Louis Marshall Warfield
No description could exaggerate the tortuosity of the Linggi or the abruptness of its windings.
From The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
I couldn't however be dumb—that was to give the wrong tinge to my disappointment; so that later in the afternoon, taking my courage in both hands, I approached with a vain tortuosity poor Limbert's door.
From Embarrassments by Henry James
As I expected, the depraved Whig Journalist, with characteristic mental tortuosity, has asserted that the sounds proceeded from a rookery in the adjoining wood, aided by the braying of the turf-man’s donkey.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 20, 1841 by Various
It is this last characteristic that imparts real value to Dunton's book, and makes it, despite its verbiage and tortuosity, throb with human interest.
From In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays by Augustine Birrell
They arrayed forth sophistical arguments without the wit of Sophists, and scholastic tortuosities minus the niceties of the Schoolmen.
From Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe
It would be tedious to detail the vacillations, the obscurities, and the tortuosities of Lord Ellenborough's successive communications to his two Generals in Afghanistan.
From The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 by Archibald Forbes
He had been the bridge over that chasm in the cycles; the Path through all the tortuosities of that doubtful and wayward time; over which the Purposes of the Gods had marched to their fulfilment.
From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris
But she gave up that point as being only one more of the inexplicable tortuosities of a man's sense of honour.
From The Eldest Son by Archibald Marshall
In an unwise moment we begged the draper's wife to honor us with a visit and explain the obliquities of the kitchen range and the tortuosities of the sink-spout to Miss Grieve.
From Penelope's Progress Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton As Relate to Her Experiences in Scotland by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
