Contrivances

Examples

• Under such high patronage most of the ideas and principles of ordnance now prevailing were discovered or suggested, but were embodied for the most part in rude and inefficient contrivances. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The Indians are dexterous in contrivances for that purpose, which we had not. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• We picture political institutions as mechanically constructed contrivances within which the nation's life is contained and compelled to approximate some abstract idea of justice or liberty. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Such contrivances are of no use, said the easy Rector. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Not the least curious of the smaller contrivances is an apparatus which deserves notice as a useful application of magnetism to manufacturing purposes. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• One trouble with all these contrivances was that, although they aided man to figure, they offered no means of making a record of the work. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The contrivances of modern days indeed have rendered a gentleman's carriage perfectly complete. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Special contrivances, wonderful in their operation, were invented to meet exigencies and emergencies. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Now it is attended from the day of its planting until it reaches the lips of the consumer by contrivances of consummate skill to fit it for its destined purpose. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It requires several ship loads of wood to supply the requirements of Lucifer-match makers; and ingenious contrivances have been patented for cutting it up into splints of the proper size. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The history of inventions is the history of new and useful contrivances made by man for practical purposes. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I think what you call the makeshift contrivances at dear Helstone were a charming part of the life there. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Special contrivances and adaptations of the telegraph for printing stock reports and for transmitting fire alarm, police, and emergency calls, have been invented. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• No useful contrivances are suddenly or apparently ever entirely supplanted. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Few of the useful contrivances had been invented yet, and almost any one of these chaps might be a genius. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Several contrivances of the author to please the king and queen. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• In fact, his practical contrivances won such repute that it is not easy to separate the historical facts from the legends that enshroud his name. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• By supplemental contrivances the paper is cut into sheets, piled together, and presented in a salable form. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Railway Locomotion, however, forms no exception to the rule, that most modern inventions have their prototypes in the contrivances of ages past. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Democracy has put an unfounded faith in automatic contrivances. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He it was who invented a gas purifier, liquid gas meter, and other useful contrivances. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I got up a motor and put it on the scales and tried a large number of different things and contrivances connected to the motor, to see how it would lighten itself on the scales. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The carts and conveyances of the poor were cumbrous, heavy contrivances, without springs, mostly two-wheel, heavy carts. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The One, Useful Contrivances of Man; the Other, New Things Found in Nature. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Spindles, shuttles, wheels, and contrivances, plying ideally within the same; rather hopeless-looking, which, however, he did at last bring to bear. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• About nine-tenths of these contrivances have been invented during the 19th century, although the philosophical principles of the operation of most of them had been previously discovered. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Thus far the reddleman had been tolerably successful in his rude contrivances for keeping down Wildeve's inclination to rove in the evening. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• All these are mere human contrivances for the interest of society. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Eustacia was nettled by her own contrivances. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Systems, institutions and mechanical contrivances have for him no virtue of their own: they are valuable only when they serve the purposes of men. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

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