例文・使い方で印象づける「tortuous」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク...The naked abdomen was gashed by a tortuous aperture likebleeding lips, through which appeared patches of bright blue... 
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Frances Douglas 「The Blood of the Arena」
...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」
...He puzzled her, and she still had a feeling at the back of her mind that there must be something more definite and more evil lurking at the back of that tortuous brain...
Baroness Emmuska Orczy 「The Elusive Pimpernel」
...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」
...When he thinks fit, he will peacefully violate the secret of the sacred chambers, and the elaborate, tortuous policy of the palace...
Maurice Maeterlinck 「The Life of the Bee」
...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」
...It might wander in a tortuous maze, making fresh attemptshere, there and everywhere, groping for ever so long withoutsucceeding...
Jean Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles」
...San Rafael, where we were to turn ourcatch over to the authorities, communicated with the bay by way of along and tortuous slough, or marshland creek, which could be navigatedonly when the tide was in...
Jack London 「Tales of the Fish Patrol」
...No doubt, like its Australian ally, itroosts in holes in trees during the daytime and capturesits prey on the wing at night, like the true Nightjars,though the flight is said to be less tortuous...
A. F. R. Wollaston 「Pygmies and Papuans」
...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」
...It is easy to imagine how slow was his progress and tortuous hiscourse, with a boat ahead all the time constantly signalling shallowwater...
James Cook 「Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World」
...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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