take a roundabout way

They took a roundabout way, so as to get at the pagoda on the rear.

"You take a roundabout way, then, to inform me that I am very ill?"

Galileo is, of necessity, taking a roundabout way to Jupiter.

By then, the lights were close, so Brock had to take a roundabout way behind the parked cars.

They took a roundabout way out of town, up the shallow valley to the east, then over the hills and back to the railroad.

'We'd best take a roundabout way to this place,' she said.

Wenck was taking a roundabout way to reach his command post.

Ajit them took a roundabout way on his way back home.

"They're taking a roundabout way to it."

Therefore we shall take a roundabout way."

We must take a roundabout way."

For the same reason, or so we told ourselves, we cut out before our last class, taking a roundabout way for our walk home.

"We took a roundabout way," Talut agreed.

"We can take a roundabout way to Aydindril so we can meet up with him and decide what to do next.

Probably Hulbert was taking a roundabout way to reach the rendezvous ordered in the note that bore the seal of King Kauger.

So good, in fact, that between his reluctance to return to the Palace and the fresh crispness of the early morning, he decided to take a roundabout way back to his room.

Nathan Hiedo, a clerk in a liquor store on Orange Avenue who lives 25 miles north of San Diego, said he considered taking a roundabout way this morning.

"You must have taken a roundabout way to the Brass Lion Gate, but I had the guards pass me through and I knew that we would meet here one last time."

No, the safest thing to do was to take a roundabout way back, make sure he wasn't followed, and rendezvous with the other fighters, head back to the Glory and report his findings.

Sometimes those experiments are reflected in song lyrics that ramble in dream logic instead of narrating or exhorting; sometimes, it's true, they take a roundabout way back to ordinary lovers' sentiments.

He then took pains to take a roundabout way to the terrace, finding, to his great relief, that Lady Pembury and the Spanish widow had left it solitary but for the peacocks.

With the ceremony concluded, the presidential party returned to their carriages and took a roundabout way back to the train to wave and greet children that were lining the streets before departing Rockford 51 minutes after his arrival.

In Fukuoka Castle, the mizunote was built with a catchment reservoir which, in times of siege, also played the role of a sutebori-moat which forced the enemies to take a roundabout way to attack.

I took a roundabout way of writing in first person, using a narrator who writes his stories in third person...[Tim] went to a community college...got interested in short stories and decided to write about his life.

She put on her hat and jacket as noiselessly as possible, and going to the back entry window, got out upon the roof of a low porch, swung herself down to the grassy bank, and took a roundabout way to the road.