Nuttall says of these birds: "They thread their devious way with the same alacrity as the rail, with whom, indeed, they are often associated in neighborhood. In consequence of this perpetual brushing through sedge and bushes, their feathers are frequently so worn that their tails appear almost like those of rats."英文原著 · 《Bird Neighbors》
This is only a record of broken and apparently unrelated memo- ries, some of them as distinct and sequent as brilliant beads upon a thread, others remote and strange, having the character of crimson dreams with inter- spaces blank and black--witch-fires glowing still and red in a great desolation. Standing upon the shore of eternity, I turn for a last look landward over the course by which I came. There are twenty years of footprints fairly distinct, the impressions of bleeding feet. They lead through poverty and pain, devious and unsure, as of one staggering beneath a burden--英文原著 · 《Can Such Things Be》
"The way of ancient ordinance, though it winds, Is yet no devious way. Straight forward goes The lightning's path; and straight the fearful path Of the cannon-ball. Direct it flies and rapid, Shattering that it may reach, and shattering what it reaches. My son! the road the human being travels, That, on which blessing comes and goes, doth follow The river's course, the valley's playful windings, Curves round the corn-field and the hill of vines, Honouring the holy bounds of property! There exists A higher than the warrior's excellence." WALLENSTEIN.英文原著 · 《Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit etc》
Sunfish travelled; and the pace he set sent even Jerry gasping now and then when he came to the worst places, with the sound of galloping hoofs in the distance before him, and Eddie coming along behind and lifting his voice warningly now and then. Even the Catrockers had held the Gap in respect, and had ridden its devious trail cautiously. But caution was a meaningless word to Bud just then while a small flame of hope burned steadily before him.英文原著 · 《Cow-Country》
Singapore was the first to report the discovery. He returned to the house and rolled on the rugs in a frenzy of remorse over his part of the business. While our attention was occupied with Sing, Tammas was busily skinning his prey in the seclusion of the woodshed. He buttoned the pelt inside his jacket, conveyed it by a devious route through the length of this building, and concealed it under his bed where he thought it wouldn't be found.英文原著 · 《Dear Enemy》
THE course of the Jordan is from the north to the south, and in that direction, with very little of devious winding, it carries the shining waters of Glailee straight down into the solitudes of the Dead Sea. Speaking roughly, the river in that meridian is a boundary between the people living under roofs and the tented tribes that wander on the farther side. And so, as I went down in my way from Tiberias towards Jerusalem, along the western bank of the stream, my thinking all propended to the ancient world of herdsmen and warriors that lay so close over my bridle arm.英文原著 · 《Eothen》
I think you're showing some real nuance in your thinking, which is what is required since you have suffered at the hands of some very devious opponents in Rhoades and his father.美剧 · 《Billions》
Very devious. (Laughter) This fits with a lot of the research, very devious. (Laughter) This fits with a lot of the research,演讲 · 《The future of lying ~ Jeff Hancock》