tortuously

Slowly, tortuously, they began to have an effect upon the ground of the foothills.

Tortuously do all good things come nigh to their goal.

Instead he found a river that wound its way tortuously through the green plain below.

We get talking when he asks me, tortuously, how much cigarettes cost at Jerry's.

Could this much really be riding on one tortuously complicated piece of legislation?

We lived in a series of caves that ran, tortuously, for miles through the heights.

He took his time and he tortuously cleaned my body.

By tonight, the long and tortuously public Olympic year will be over for the Americans.

Immensely, tortuously, the ground of the foothills began to shift.

Time seemed to drag tortuously, after the rush of wild firing earlier.

But slowly, tortuously, they fought the writhing canvas under control.

The distance covered on that tortuously winding road was closer to six than to five hundred miles.

With a million pages of documents filed, the office's trademark process is tortuously slow.

It was a tortuously complicated plan, fraught with opportunities for failure.

She was on a dirt road that curved tortuously.

If he did not keep stumbling tortuously before the wind, he would fall and never rise again.

Nails flew through the air as the sleek hull bent tortuously.

Efforts to build peace and reconciliation after the poll are under way but progress is tortuously slow.

Greg began to move, a tortuously slow sidestroke, kicking hard with his feet.

He could not see it for any distance ahead, so tortuously did it wind through the jungle.

That long, narrow, tortuously winding crack stretched clear up the side of the plateau.

Above Blackburn, the route twists tortuously to negotiate a series of hills.

The boy was subsequently "broken on the wheel" (tortuously executed).

The dim trail wound tortuously between dense walls of giant trees.

Every detail, every twist and turn unwound tortuously before his eyes.