tortuousness

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Besides a general, jerky tortuousness of plot and hint and good red herring, separate scenes are overtrained to a point at which, matched together, they are too stale for the race.

From Time Magazine Archive

From the Sansc. bhuj, Goth. bjugan, Welsh bwäu, Gael. bogh, Eng. bow, &c., in the sense of tortuousness, we may take the following.

From The River-Names of Europe by Ferguson, Robert

Nevertheless, you must have observed, although with greater curiosity than concern, the slipperiness and tortuousness of your detractors.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage

This is a very admissable explanation, considering the tedium and slowness of their progress in winding through scrubs, and being delayed by crossings, the tortuousness of their route making it difficult to keep the course.

From Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland by Byerley, Frederick, J.

The river branches at the foot of the hill, and each branch seems to vie with the other in the tortuousness of its course through the bright green paddy-fields.

From Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak by McDougall, Henriette