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
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 Henriette McDougall
This transaction, taken in connection with the tortuousness of his public course, explains the distrust I have always expressed for him.
From Democracy, an American novel by Henry Adams
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 Robert Ferguson
Probably upon the whole the sense of tortuousness is that which should be recognized.
From The River-Names of Europe by Robert Ferguson
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