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Sentences ending with contrived

I suspect that to you there is still dignity in human life, and that Man is not a joke--a poor joke--the poorest that was ever contrived. [5]
The opportunity which Lord Montague had long sought came one day unexpectedly, or perhaps it was contrived. [4]
Nothing could be better contrived. [4]
Ah, it was a deep, deep satire, and most ingeniously contrived. [5]

Sentences containing contrived two or more times

When he accomplished this, it seemed as if he had contrived it all himself, but perhaps he had not wholly contrived it. [8]

More example sentences with the word contrived in them

With these, and with the world at large, her manner might best be described as difficult; and I was often amused at the way in which she contrived to keep them at arm's length and make them uncomfortable. [9]
More than once when David's plans had had a set-back, Higli had contrived a meeting with Nahoum, to judge for himself the true position. [11]
The lictors who were keeping off the mob had stopped Melissa too; but while Alexander had been gazing into Agatha's imploring eyes, feeling as though all his blood had rushed to his heart and face, Melissa had contrived to creep up close to him. [10]
But before she went she contrived to place near his elbow one of the scraps of paper on which Pauline had drawn his face, with that of Manette. [11]
His second speech was made at Bloomington, in which he commented upon my speech at Chicago and said that I had used language ingeniously contrived to conceal my intentions, or words to that effect. [7]
Thus the Imperial visit swallowed up millions, and Hadrian, who enquired into every detail and contrived to obtain information as to the sums expended by the city, blamed the recklessness of his lavish entertainers. [10]
It was a victory for conservatism and established order against sensationalism and anarchy--Mr. Ridout had contrived to make that clear without actually saying so. [9]
Yes, it is true, we have contrived to fill the world with our scandals of late. [4]
By the subtle transmission of thought, of feeling which is characteristic at dramatic moments of bodies of people, she knew that he had already contrived to stir them to the quick. [9]
Pelageya Danilovna began to recognize the mummers, admired their cleverly contrived costumes, and particularly how they suited the young ladies, and she thanked them all for having entertained her so well. [2]
In the mean time I have contrived to make out the person and the story of our young lady, who, according to appearances, ought to furnish us a heroine for a boarding-house romance before a year is out. [6]
For a long time he did not utter one word; but, after a considerable interval, during which Mrs Quilp was almost paralysed with the alarm his looks engendered, he contrived to gasp out, 'If I had him here. [12]
She contrived to throw poisoned darts at the owner of Strawberry that started little Mr. Marmaduke to fidgeting in his seat, and he came to the rescue with all the town-talk at his command. [9]
He contrived to throw down a woman standing beside him before the mini-balls swished over their heads, and the leaves and branches began to fall. [9]
What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left! [6]
When Mena saw the twelve princes descending to the ground, he shouted through his hands, using them as a speaking trumpet, and called to Rameri, who was about to slip down the rope they had contrived, the last of them all. [10]
These water-works, of the most ingenious construction, many of them invented and contrived by scientific engineers, were the weapons with which man had conquered the desert that originally surrounded this lake, forcing it into green fertility and productiveness of grain and fruit. [10]
Every morning, at the hour Austen was wont to drive Pepper to the Ripton House stables across the square, Hilary had contrived to be standing near his windows--a little back, and out of sight. [9]
Only his wish that he had a staff revived in his mind, and he soon contrived to possess himself of one, by pulling a stake out of the fence that surrounded the innkeeper's little garden. [10]
He had contrived somehow to give her a sense of intimacy with the people who lived thereabout--his own friends. [9]
She had contrived some way of letting off her spite; that was certain. [6]
Branwell has, by some means, contrived to get more money from the old quarter, and has led us a sad life. [14]
It has been since supposed, with some reason, that this slumber was a sham or feint, as she contrived to slip away unobserved in the dusk of the afternoon. [12]
From the beginning she had been firmly convinced that the "Mustache," as she now called the knight in a tone of the most intense aversion, had contrived this base conspiracy, and her opinion was strengthened by Biberli. [10]
Hardly knowing how she did it, she contrived to utter a few polite phrases in French in the same tone as those that had been addressed to her, and asked: "How is he? [2]
Tom contrived to scarify the cupboard with it, and was arranging to begin on the bureau, when he was called off to dress for Sunday-school. [5]
He did not say so, but contrived to intimate the former. [9]
She contrived to resolve me again into conflicting elements. [9]
It is a rather pleasant thing to tell a poor young woman, whom one has contrived to win without showing his rent-roll, that she has found what the world values so highly, in following the lead of her affections. [6]
It is as pleasant a climate as could well be contrived, take it all around, and is doubtless the most unvarying in the whole world. [5]
Men have sought out many inventions, but they can have contrived nothing which did not exist as an idea in the omniscient consciousness to which past, present, and future are alike Now. [6]
Finally he contrived one which shut off access--probably set the table's legs in pans of water, or drew a circle of tar around the cup, I don't remember. [5]
Then she went on: "They had but small wit that contrived this trap. [5]
But in spite of them all he contrived to get Patty for supper, when I took Betty Tayloe, and we were very merry at table together. [9]
His keeping abreast of the times was the enigma, and Hodder had often wondered how financial genius had contrived to house itself in the well-dressed, gently pompous little man whose lack of force seemed at times so painfully evident. [9]
I contrived one now which commended itself to all, for it promised well. [5]
One thing I noticed: as monsieur and Bigot came up, I could see monsieur eying the Intendant askance, as though he would read treachery; for I feel sure that it was Bigot who contrived to have monsieur shut up in the chest-room. [11]
One of the mysterious gentlemen who had been seen in the vicinity of Colonel Carvel's house was arrested on the ferry, but he had contrived to be rid of the carpet-sack in which certain precious letters were carried. [9]
On the whole, Mr. Spence was not only prepossessing, but he contrived to give Honora, as she shook his hand, the impression of being brought a step nearer to the national source of power. [9]
His Lordship proved more than able to take care of himself, and contrived to send Philip about his business when he pulled up a chair beside us. [9]
There was a little door that led out of the house by the billiard room, Honora remembered, and contrived, after luncheon, to slip away and reach it. [9]
After cigarettes were lighted she contrived to draw Mavick away to the piazza. [4]
She has one leg much shorter than the other, and it is only with much pains that we have contrived that it should carry her. [10]
The Duc de Lauzun, who contrived to get two dances, might give you a description in a more suitable language than English. [9]
I might have known they would; and the sharpers, or fools, I don't know which, have contrived to involve me for three times as much as the first obligation. [5]
Higbie descended into it and worked bravely with his pick till he had loosened up a deal of rock and dirt and then I went down with a long-handled shovel (the most awkward invention yet contrived by man) to throw it out. [5]
It evidently hovered in the misty horizon of his mind as a joke, and he contrived to present it to his audience in that light. [4]
She passed, indeed, hours with Lord Montague, occasions contrived when she was left alone in the house with him, and she made heroic efforts to be interested, to find something in his mind that was in sympathy with her own thoughts. [4]
What I deplore, Hodder, is that you've contrived to make a hornets' nest out of the most peaceful and contented congregation in America. [9]
Not only did his reason not reproach him for what he had done, but he even found cause for self-satisfaction in having so successfully contrived to avail himself of a convenient opportunity to punish a criminal and at the same time pacify the mob. [2]
The Celebrity deemed her, from a social standpoint, decidedly the better part of the Mohair establishment, and he contrived, by a system of manoeuvres I failed to grasp, to throw her forward while he kept Mr. Cooke in the background. [9]
In the inner hall there was only dim twilight; while the hypostyle was quite dark, but for a singularly contrived shaft of light which produced a most mysterious effect. [10]
Characteristically, her father had not once mentioned the rector of St. John's, yet had contrived to imply that her interest in Hodder was greater than her interest in religion. [9]
Moreover, Mr. Flint had ingeniously contrived almost to make the act, in Austen's eyes, that of a picayune upstart. [9]
These dominant bankers had contrived to gain control of the savings of thousands and thousands of fellow-citizens who had deposited them in banks or paid them into insurance companies, and with the power thus accumulated had sallied forth to capture railroads and industries. [9]
I contrived to give it a turn, and on the side next the wall I got a glimpse of Barnum's Rhyming Dictionary, and several Dictionaries of Quotations and cheap compends of knowledge. [6]
They had emerged from their isolation to tempt popular favour, had contrived many designs and ambitions, and in the midst of their largest hopes were humiliated, and were followed by resentment. [11]
Daily he sent flowers to Evelyn; he contrived little excursions and suppers; he was marked in his attentions wherever they went. [4]
Many of the fellows were ladies who could not be so summarily asked out to lunch, but Fulkerson's ingenuity was equal to every exigency, and he contrived somehow to make each of these feel that she had been possessed of exclusive information. [8]
In the early dusk, when they had returned from their long rides, she contrived to draw Chiltern into his study. [9]
Indeed, the ugly creature contrived by some means or other--whether by his ugliness or his ferocity or his natural cunning is no great matter--to impress with a wholesome fear of his anger, most of those with whom he was brought into daily contact and communication. [12]
Of course he could have culled the conversation from the tramp, but by what sort of magic had he contrived to find out about the concealed cook? [5]
The clergyman had contrived to step out of his, Langmaid's, experience: had actually set him--who all his life had known no difficulty in dealing with men--to groping for a medium of communication . [9]
He had also contrived to catch a few bats, and these, also, he had eaten, leaving only their claws. [5]
How had Argutis contrived that her letter should reach Caesar's hands without too greatly imperiling himself? [10]
He made a collection which filled five large salons, and comprehended all the different sorts of cow-bells that ever had been contrived, save one. [5]
Once he contrived, by main force, to drag her out into the hall. [9]
He was cheated by his stewards, refused to believe that the Revolution was serious, and would undoubtedly have been guillotined had the Vicomtesse not contrived to get him out of France in spite of himself. [9]
A peculiar, interesting building, rambling up the slope on different levels, so contrived that all the rooms are outside, and having a delightful irregularity, as if the house had been a growth. [4]
And Myrtle soon began to challenge remark by a certain air she contrived to give her dresses, and the skill with which she blended their colors. [6]
Of all the barbarous lay-outs that were ever contrived, this was the most atrocious. [5]
Embarking with these arrant cheats, the vessel reached the coast of Picardy, where his comrades contrived to take ashore their own baggage and Smith's trunk, containing his money and goodly apparel, leaving him on board. [4]
Nothing more fiendish and irreconcilable than those shrieking and blaspheming colors could have been contrived, The wet boots gave no end of trouble--to Luigi. [5]
England owes me a sixpence with interest from date, for I gave the woman a shilling, and the coach contrived to start or the woman timed it so that I just missed getting my change. [6]
I knew once a lean and faithful agent of a great philanthropic scheme, who contrived to collect every year for the cause just enough to support him at a good hotel comfortably. [4]
We put in a great deal of solid talk and reflection over this matter of trying to find a figure that would describe the unique white of a Bermuda house, and we contrived to hit upon it at last. [5]

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