Expedients

Examples

• Shirley's expedients did not fail her. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It is one of its many admirable expedients for enriching the country. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• All her thoughts turned on this difficulty; her whole soul was occupied with expedients for effecting its solution. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• A good many expedients were resorted to to keep the excursionists amused and satisfied. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The modern life of the world, however, has been replete with the resourceful expedients of the engineer, and the ingenious instrumentalities invented by him to carry out his plans. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Perhaps Calonne might return too, with fresh financial expedients. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Many of the tools and expedients she used were abominable. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She would be free forever from the shifts, the expedients, the humiliations of the relatively poor. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Such brains are fertile in expedients. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Several different expedients, however, may be fallen upon, which will effectually blunt the edge of all those incitements to diligence. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• These expedients simply made available the superior conductivity of the solid body over the air to transmit sound waves. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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