Ingenuity

Examples

• At immense personal sacrifice I followed the dictates of my own ingenuity, my own humanity, my own caution, and took her identity instead. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Beppo did not despair, and he conducted his search with considerable ingenuity and perseverance. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The jealousy of the artist to maintain that reputation, which his ingenuity has justly acquired, has urged him to unnecessary pains on this subject. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It is more laborious to accumulate facts than to reason concerning them; but one good experiment is of more value than the ingenuity of a brain like Newton's. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• It is wonderful how art and ingenuity united about thirty years ago to produce attractive _wall papers_. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• No ingenuity could make such a picture beautiful--to one's actual vision. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• And yet most of us accept as a matter of course the stream which gushes from our faucet, or give no thought to the ingenuity which devised a means of forcing water upward through pipes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• We use the crab-apple for preserving even now, although man’s ingenuity has succeeded in inducing nature to give us many better tasting kinds. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But this does not reflect upon or diminish the ingenuity required for its invention. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In this business Mr. Nathaniel Wheeler was associated with Mr. Wilson, and the well-known Wheeler & Wilson machines are the result of their enterprise and ingenuity. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The table is then pushed under a huge grinding machine and the slate surface is made plane, as nearly perfect as human ingenuity can make it. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• At other times he repeated my favourite poems, or drew me out into arguments, which he supported with great ingenuity. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Ingenuity has been shown also in the invention of talking-machines, like Faber's, based on the reed organ pipe. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But it is not easy to find any accurate measure either of hardship or ingenuity. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The ingenuity and utility of this system are indisputable. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

Typist: Shelby