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Sentences ending with contrive

Singing hymns and waving palm branches through all eternity is pretty when you hear about it in the pulpit, but it's as poor a way to put in valuable time as a body could contrive. [5]
He would groan and wail and howl with the anguish, and fill up the odd chinks with the most elaborate profanity that strong convictions and a fine fancy could contrive. [5]

More example sentences with the word contrive in them

Ah, yes, this was plainly the right way out of the difficulty; therefore she set her wits to work at once to contrive that test. [5]
By the same trusty messenger did Virginia contrive to send a note to Mrs. Brice, begging her to explain her absence to Judge Whipple. [9]
Mr. Hue I think it is, who tells us some very good stories about the way in which two Chinese gentlemen contrive to keep up a long talk without saying a word which has any meaning in it. [6]
Therefore it followed that I must contrive a new career. [5]
A week before that fifteen minutes of calm reflection would have enabled that man to contrive some last words that would have been a credit to himself and a comfort to his family for generations to come. [5]
Whatever bearing this telegram may have had upon his plans, he made up his mind that he would contrive an opportunity somehow that very evening to propose himself as a suitor to Myrtle Hazard. [6]
I must contrive something fresh to get back to Congress on. [5]
I listened, and recognized the rector's deep tones: 'He has gone to the Coffee House,' he was saying; Collinson declares that his Lordship is our man, if we can but contrive it. [9]
Straightway, the company privately laid their heads together to contrive some way to get this superstitious young man to sleep in that chamber. [5]
One of the pleasantest and most invigorating exercises one can contrive is to run and jump across the Humboldt river till he is overheated, and then drink it dry. [5]
It was a passionate longing for Selene that drove him up and down, and his wish to see her again crystallized into resolve, and prompted him to contrive the ways and means of meeting her once more before the Emperor's return. [10]
There is nothing out of which it will not contrive to get some sustenance. [6]
If anybody would only contrive some kind of a lever that one could thrust in among the works of this horrid automaton and check them, or alter their rate of going, what would the world give for the discovery? [6]
And why should not old Horapollo, for once before he dies, try what his brains can contrive to achieve in the busy world of outside human existence? [10]
If she could not contrive to help her self she was a prisoner, and without air, light, and freedom she could not live. [10]
For you must know that I am a sort of circulating library of odd news which those devils, the printers, contrive to get sooner or later--Heaven knows how! [9]
But you must keep it quite a secret and tell no one, not even Eudoxia and Katharina; for I do not know myself how we can contrive to get your grandmother's consent. [10]
She could not keep her feet quiet, but she did contrive to keep her arms still by crossing them in front of her, so that they might not betray how excited she was. [10]
For the first hour she sewed away without looking up, considering, meanwhile, how she could best contrive to support the family till the end of the month on the few drachmae she could dispose of. [10]
If everybody about here was so honestly and sincerely afraid of Merlin's pretended magic as Clarence was, certainly a superior man like me ought to be shrewd enough to contrive some way to take advantage of such a state of things. [5]
He would simply happen into Mr. Mavick's office, and, as Mr. Mavick frequently talked familiarly with him, he would contrive to lead the conversation to Evelyn, and make his confession. [4]
It was not enough to kill his captive enemy, after torturing him as much as ingenuity could contrive to do it. [6]
During months I dreamed that dream, and tried to contrive ways to get to Para and spring that splendid enterprise upon an unsuspecting planet. [5]
For ourselves I could contrive, papa's diet is so very simple; but there will be a nurse coming in a day or two, and I am afraid of not having things good enough for her. [14]
I would I could contrive an excuse to speak with him. [5]
We have to contrive, therefore, another basis for a class (to use an un-American expression), in a sort of culture or training, which can be perpetual, and which cannot be ordered for money, like a ball costume or a livery. [4]
Of course you contrive to see everything and find out everything. [5]
Now can you contrive that Ptolemaeus and Favorinus shall go with Apollonius to meet the Emperor at Pelusium? [10]
One of these clients was a man whom the spirits (if one may thus plurally describe the ingenious Manchester) were teaching how to contrive an improved railway car-wheel. [5]
The old town clerks did not spell very correctly, but they contrive to make intelligible the will of a free and just community. [6]
Let the miscreant Cauchon alone to contrive those. [5]
They contrive to buy, no matter of what cost, a controlling interest in it, either in its stock or its management. [4]
He drifted here and there amongst the multitudes that were massed in the vicinity for a weary long time, baffled and perplexed, and finally wandered off, thinking, and trying to contrive some way to better his plan of campaign. [5]
How very drunk, and how recently drunk, and how altogether admirably drunk you must have been to enable you to contrive that masterpiece! [5]
I have done all the extravagant things that the wildest invention could contrive, and done them well, and this is my reward--playing Wild Man in Kansas without a shirt! [5]
What surprises one all over the Old World is to see how deeply all the old civilizations contrive to get buried. [6]
Then she went after Mulberry Sellers, purposing to make short work with his program, whatever it might be; "for," said she, "when his sentimentals are up, he's a numskull, and there's no knowing what extravagance he'll contrive, if you let him alone. [5]
Let them take a healthy moment for preparation, and contrive some last words that shall be neat and to the point. [5]

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