Crossword-Solution: CIRCUITOUSNESS 14 letters, 20 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 18

Indeed I have often wondered whether a woman, when she is in pursuit of any given end, can progress by other methods than an ant, which hath no power of circuitousness, and will climb over a tree with long labour and pain rather than skirt it, if it come in her way.

The circuitousness of this route, which lay clear enough before the eyes of our two friends upon the eminence--crawling, as it did, up the woodland slopes with the sinuous course of a serpent--was yet visible to Ned Hinkley, on his lowlier perch, only at its starting-point, upon the very margin of the lake.

Robin Greenlaw and Peter Lindsay took a way that should lead them far aside from this port, and then with circuitousness home.

Compare his prose with its antithesis, that of Donne, who, for all his medieval theology, was more modern in the working of his mind than Johnson; for whereas the author of _Rasselas_ will bring you surely and by slow degrees to a conclusion, the mind of the author of _Death’s Duel_ and the sermons seems to anticipate all conclusions at once with the rapidity and circuitousness of a thousand ants.

His style indicates his character: he always found the strongest, the most biting expressions, without either the shades of delicacy or the circuitousness of subtlety.