| 1. | Into the devious Air then might ye se. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | Holohan in his limping and devious courses. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 3. | I sought the Continent, and went devious through all its lands. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 4. | Through the still night they cross the devious fields. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 5. | 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. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 6. | The mourners moved away slowly without aim, by devious paths, staying at whiles to read a name on a tomb. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 7. | In a dreadful state of doubt and uncertainty, the agonised young woman staggered to the gate, and then, exchanging her faltering walk for a swift run, returned by the most devious and complicated route she could think of, to the domicile of the Jew. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 8. | On a strange and devious way, Siddhartha had gotten into this final and most base of all dependencies, by means of the game of dice. - from Siddhartha by Herman Hesse |