His cap was a dainty thing, his close- buttoned blue cloth
roundabout was new and natty, and so were his pantaloons.
On Monday, Polly began the "delicate and dangerous task." Instead of going to her pupils by way of the park and the pleasant streets adjoining, she took a
roundabout route through back streets, and thus escaped Mr.
'But you are not so
roundabout, Little Eyes, that I don't notice your answering for Pubsey and Co.
"Look here, Sancho," said Teresa; "ever since you joined on to a knight-errant you talk in such a
roundabout way that there is no understanding you."
Negroes are tireless gossipers, which, of course, is but a
roundabout way of saying that they are human.
But he obstinately took
roundabout ways, and presently he was where he could see long gray walls of vapor where lay battle lines.
The usual route through Moscow could not be thought of, and the
roundabout way Princess Mary was obliged to take through Lipetsk, Ryazan, Vladimir, and Shuya was very long and, as post horses were not everywhere obtainable, very difficult, and near Ryazan where the French were said to have shown themselves was even dangerous.
It is a
roundabout wheedling sort of thing which I should not have credited you with.
As the path gradually ascended the mountain, although in a
roundabout way, they decided to follow it.
she would come herself, and use no
roundabout ways.
And Kwaque it was who pulled Michael through the port-hole into Dag Daughtry's stateroom and waited for that worthy to arrive by the
roundabout way of the door.
It is exactly like her to take that
roundabout way of satisfying her curiosity about a daughter-in-law she disapproves of.