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Sentences ending with devices

To Louis she was ever the same, affectionate, gentle, and unselfish; but her stronger soul ruled him without his knowledge, commanded his perturbed spirit into the abstracted quiet and bitter silence wherein he lived, and which she sought to cheer by a thousand happy devices. [11]
He was a right well-disposed and cheerful old man, of a rare good heart and temper, and of wondrous good devices. [10]
By his own request our small friend was now conducted to his private cabinet, and left there alone to his own devices. [5]
The Germans are pretty sure to boil a trout or anything else if left to their own devices. [5]
She had her own way, for Mr. Driscoll soon absorbed himself in his speculations and left her to her own devices. [5]
He blew out his light, went below, and was soon loafing down the river road with the intent to borrow and use one of Roxy's devices. [5]

Sentences containing devices two or more times

My grandfather having much business to look to, I was left to my own devices, and the devices of an impetuous lad of twelve are not always such as his elders would choose for him. [9]

More example sentences with the word devices in them

Puss tried, by various ingenious devices, to learn whether Mr. Brice had accepted his invitation. [9]
At first he used regularly to try the bars of the window, and search the wall as though he thought my devices might be found there. [11]
In vain she tried devices to produce that monotony of thought which sometimes brings sleep. [11]
I left you to your own devices with a good intention. [10]
Was it round?--and thick?--and had it letters and devices graved upon it?--yes? [5]
Presently we saw the procession of the guilds with their devices and banners; never had they come forth in such goodly bravery. [10]
The brain of the bird is not large; but it is all concentrated on one object, and that is the attempt to elude the devices of modern civilization which injure his chances of food. [4]
It is not small enough to be sustained or made secure in its furfilment by the devices of intrigue. [11]
Like many other simple-hearted souls, it was her pet vanity to believe she was endowed with a talent for dark and mysterious diplomacy, and she loved to contemplate her most transparent devices as marvels of low cunning. [5]
Burlington has the progressive modern city's full equipment of devices for right and intelligent government; including a paid fire department, a thing which the great city of New Orleans is without, but still employs that relic of antiquity, the independent system. [5]
The lawn is planted in exquisite taste, and the gardener has set in the open spaces of green the most ingenious devices of flowers and foliage plants, and nothing could be more enchanting than the view from the wide veranda on the sea side. [4]
Thou with Serapis, Osiris, and Isis, I with Jehovah, in vapours and shadows; Thou with the gods' joy-enhancing devices, Sweet-smelling meadows. [11]
Thou with Serapis, Osiris, and Isis, I with Jehovah, in vapours and shadows; Thou with the gods' joy-enhancing devices, Sweet-smelling meadows! [11]
The devices engraved on it are the ciphers or names of its long line of possessors--I had Luigi's name added in Roman letters myself with our coat of arms, as you see. [5]
In the midst of the various devices for attracting visitors to the exhibition, little Nell was not forgotten. [12]
Upon the tiles of the parapet are cheerful devices, the crossbones tied with a cord, and the like. [4]
By the law of the Church--she being a minor under twenty-one--it was her right to have counsel to conduct her case, advise her how to answer when questioned, and protect her from falling into traps set by cunning devices of the prosecution. [5]
On Sunday afternoon, left temporarily to my own devices, I wandered along the cliff, crossing into the adjoining property. [9]
Loop by loop, it must have been an immense labor to knit it; for it was fashioned in pretty devices, and when spread out was rich and showy enough for the royal bed of a princess. [4]
But she is ingenious,--full of all sorts of devices, innocent enough in themselves, but liable to be misconstrued. [6]
I swore that I would be within that town by the morrow, that I would fetch my wife into safety, out from the damnable arts and devices of Master Devil Doltaire, as Gabord had called him. [11]
What delight could I have in long solicitude and ingenious devices touching a gift for Polly within my means, and hitting the border line between her necessities and her extravagant fancy? [4]
Schemes and devices for which he never rightly accounted to himself, but which formed the whole interest of his life, were constantly shaping themselves in his mind, arising from the circumstances and persons he met. [2]
During the winter evenings in Coniston, Cynthia had read little newspaper attacks on Jethro, and scorned them as the cowardly devices of enemies. [9]
Now they have done with the pain and the error, Nevermore here shall the dark things assail them, Void man's devices and dreams have no terror-- Shall we bewail them? [11]
He expected to do the wrong thing when left to his own devices, and he did it without any apparent recollection of his former misdeeds and their consequences. [8]
With all his devices, however, he could not quite understand Hope, and he walked warily, lest through his lack of understanding he should, by some mischance, come suddenly upon a reef, and his plans go shipwreck. [11]
Innumerable were the devices of the builders to keep their inventions afloat. [4]
There were endless devices of colored lamps and lanterns, figures of crosses, crowns, the Seal of Solomon, and the most strange effects produced on foliage and in the water by red and green and purple fires. [4]
He knew their devices and what had been going on of late, he was aware that his fall would mean a blow to British prestige, and the calmness of his gaze expressed a fortitude which had a disconcerting effect upon the group. [11]
He had deep determination, the gracious subtlety which charms a woman, and she, hemmed in by his devices, overcome by his pleadings, attracted by his enviable personality, would come at last to his will. [11]
All sorts of alarm devices have been put in the house, and the ground for half a mile around it has been electrified. [5]
It was not a beautiful thing in a woman, but it was what a woman could do; and, denied other powers given to men--as to her father--she resorted to astute but doubtful devices to advance her diplomacy. [11]

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