1 By a devious track between the fields they wound back to the Starkfield road.
2 Vida believed that she had explained many deep and devious matters.
3 So that Monsoons, Pampas, Nor'-Westers, Harmattans, Trades; any wind but the Levanter and Simoon, might blow Moby Dick into the devious zig-zag world-circle of the Pequod's circumnavigating wake.
4 When the travellers had pushed on at a rapid rate through many devious paths, the Palmer at length broke silence.
5 Yet his purpose was baffled by the devious paths through which he rode, so that when evening closed upon him, he only found himself on the frontiers of the West Riding of Yorkshire.
6 He would follow a devious course up and down the streets, circling always nearer and nearer in a tremor of fear and joy, until his feet led him suddenly round a dark corner.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 7 She wanted to be on good terms with them but, while she strove to be polite, her eyes followed Mr. Holohan in his limping and devious courses.
8 I sought the Continent, and went devious through all its lands.