Contriving

Examples

• They will talk of it freely, even before others whose pockets they are thus contriving to pick by this piece of knavery. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• To these scanty means of improvement, she added another of her own contriving. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Then arose the necessity of contriving some form of bridge of extensive span that would be sufficiently strong and rigid for railway trains to pass over them in safety. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• It's my sister's contriving. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He's a very contriving chap is our William. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Wonderful ingenuity has been shown in contriving a means to enable people to ascend the Wetterhorn Mountain in Switzerland. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• At this very moment he is wild to see you, and occupied only in contriving the means for doing so, and for making his pleasure conduce to yours. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• He was uneasy all the while, waiting to talk with her, subtly contriving to be near her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I am sure you ought to be very much obliged to your aunt Bertram and me for contriving to let you go. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• She admired him for contriving it, though not able to give him much credit for the manner in which it was announced. Jane Austen. Emma.

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