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roundabout way
1. I thought I’d relate it to you at this moment since in a roundabout way it could serve as encouragement for all of us to answer “Yes!” to an age-old question regarding the possibility of our being able to gain our freedom from this competitive and aggressive anguish that we frequently suffer from
2. ” This in a roundabout way made sense to us after all we had been here from the beginning and had survived when thousands of others hadn’t
3. So, in a roundabout way, we may actually return to the early church, but a very different early church from what some would have in mind
4. roundabout way of doing things! Are you not the source and the
5. back in a roundabout way
6. Some will have to go a roundabout way to get to their new positions
7. Pauls in a roundabout way
8. She considered asking her father for advice but she couldn’t think of a roundabout way of doing it that wouldn’t reveal the entire enterprise to him
9. Garcia departed, roundabout way that took him back through the courtroom he
10. Clownfishes may also provide food in a roundabout way for the anemone
11. “Waldron translates into the word ‘wall-raven’, which in a roundabout way is said to mean ‘strong raven’,” he said
12. "A good deal of it," returned Carton excitedly, "The story is to be, as I understand it, that the fake pictures were among those stolen from me and that in a roundabout way they came into the possession of someone in the organization, without their knowing who the thief was
13. But what a roundabout way; how fatiguing and difficult
14. The point I was trying to make, in a most roundabout way, was how essential it is to keep the flame alive, the flame of knowledge, of history, of humanity’s story
15. I wondered if it, in some roundabout way, had anything to do with the packages
16. and roundabout way back to the Hilton
17. In a roundabout way, he ends up
18. “In a roundabout way I suppose you could say
19. “You're… in a roundabout way, part of the Council
20. There was something peculiar in this hesitating question, which seemed approaching something in a roundabout way
21. "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
22. My daughter I did not find, the treasure I found and have with me; and now, in this strange roundabout way you have seen, I find the treasure that more than all makes me rich, my beloved daughter
23. “No, I prefer the roundabout way
24. Moreover, that silver, which would never have come down if her husband had been made acquainted with the news brought by Decoud, had been in a roundabout way nearly the cause of Dr
25. I heard in a roundabout way that he “I haven’t thanked you for what you and Frank did for Tony,” he said
26. It was this latter, in a roundabout way, that had led to that awards banquet
27. In his roundabout way, the professor began explaining,
28. 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
29. He made sure of his back burrows, as huntsmen say; he hastily despatched one of his agents, by a roundabout way, to guard that issue
30. His business—buying horses for the army—was light and active, in cavalry style, but he settled himself solidly at Fedosey Nikolaitch's, as though he were laying siege to it! I approached the subject in a roundabout way, as my nasty habit is; I said one thing and another, asking him what I had done to be treated so, saying that I was almost like a son to him, and when might I expect him to behave more like a father
31. It was by this roundabout way that I arrived at the inevitable conclusion to which the Chinese arrived some thousand years ago, and which they express thus: “If there is one idle man, there must be another who is starving
32. The usual route through Moscow could not be thought of, and the roundabout way Princess Mary was obliged to take through Lípetsk, Ryazán, Vladímir, and Shúya was very long and, as post horses were not everywhere obtainable, very difficult, and near Ryazán where the French were said to have shown themselves was even dangerous