circuitous

Historical Examples of circuitously

• I often wish the Devil had the lion's share of them,—at once, and not circuitously as now.

  History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Volume IV. (of XXI.)

  Thomas Carlyle

• But no matter in what direction they started, circuitously they always found their way into the field of main preoccupation.

  The Soul of a Child

  Edwin Bjorkman

• Boyle did not apply directly to Bentley, but circuitously, by his bookseller, with whom the doctor was not on terms.

  Calamities and Quarrels of Authors

  Isaac Disraeli

• Shortly after, a beautiful Musk-rat was observed to leave the cabin of the chief, and to approach them circuitously.

  Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3)

  James Athearn Jones

• The path, growing narrower, wound on circuitously through the woods, between slender serried trunks twined with ivy.

  The Reef

  Edith Wharton