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Many a lawyer was glad of the chance to turn from corporate and financial tortuosities of the painful past to contemplation of the Law's higher concerns�to honest government, swift justice, international peace.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had been the bridge over that chasm in the cycles; the Path through all the tortuosities of that doubtful and wayward time; over which the Purposes of the Gods had marched to their fulfilment.

From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth

But she gave up that point as being only one more of the inexplicable tortuosities of a man's sense of honour.

From The Eldest Son by Marshall, Archibald

It would be tedious to detail the vacillations, the obscurities, and the tortuosities of Lord Ellenborough's successive communications to his two Generals in Afghanistan.

From The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 by Forbes, Archibald

Experience soon shows us the tortuosities of imaginary rectitude, the complications of simplicity, and the asperities of smoothness.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II by Johnson, Samuel