A Hampshire farmer had fowls of different breeds, including Dorkings, and he discriminated ingeniously between the `dark ones' and the `white ones'. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : an ingenious machine. ,an ingenious press agent. From Dictionary.com.
Rectory, “to a female mind, that that can employ itself ingeniously, that is capable of friendship, that is blessed with affluence, where are the evils of celibacy?. From Wordnik.com. [Anna Seward and Classic Lichfield] Reference
Which has been thus ingeniously paraphrased by a friend of mine. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference
The plan, so ingeniously contrived, pleased the fancy of the boys. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen] Reference
Its logic is ingeniously simple: popularity is a very good indicator of quality. From Wordnik.com. [The Perfect Search] Reference
They came first to view the sculptures -- each one ingeniously made of food -- and then eat them. From Wordnik.com. [Jim O'Grady: Art You Can Eat -- An Edible Sculpture Contest] Reference
When people enter they will find a building which has been ingeniously and carefully adapted to their use. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of The New York Public Library] Reference
There were the same shelters ingeniously constructed of brush and logs and a picket line for horses and mules. From Wordnik.com. [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference
It is one of the most ingeniously-built things I ever saw, considering the means at the command of the Esquimaux. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892] Reference
When the banner was presented to the winners their totem had been ingeniously fashioned upon its shimmering folds. From Wordnik.com. [The Banner Boy Scouts on a Tour, or, The Mystery of Rattlesnake Mountain] Reference
Experiments or opinions that make against his faith are either contemptuously rejected or ingeniously explained away. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
Three very thin sheets of glass were woven separately and then joined at the edges so ingeniously as to defy detection. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
Visual and political puns emerge, ingeniously using class, justice and ethics of power with the actual act of robbing a bank. From Wordnik.com. [Artist Statement] Reference
It took two days to construct them, and Tom ingeniously made them out of some empty tins that had contained meat and other foods. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift in the City of Gold, or, Marvelous Adventures Underground] Reference
He used a really drab olive green, made ingeniously translucent so that the white canvas showing through gives just the right glow. From Wordnik.com. [Friendship And Rivalry] Reference
It is very ingeniously written, but what more particularly requires correction is the fabrications and misrepresentations of facts. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
He wants to skate, and contrives ingeniously to dam the course of a brook, and flood a meadow which makes a splendid skating-ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
His subtly odd-angled shots of small-town main streets and regular folks are ingeniously stuffed with fascinating juxtapositions of color. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond The Obvious] Reference
Academicians, and the ingeniously devised experiments of the later observers, whether they operate with a toothed wheel or a rotating mirror. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
Omoo is of the order composite, a skilfully concocted Robinsonade, where fictitious incident is ingeniously blended with genuine information. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
The whole are very ingeniously arranged and appropriately ornamented, in a style corresponding with the general architecture of the building. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
Any contrary information is either dismissed as the work of uninformed cranks or -- worse -- ingeniously adjusted and used to buttress The Story. From Wordnik.com. [A Black Hole] Reference
And while Oddworld is an ingeniously skewed romp through the dark side of American capitalism, some may find the game a bit too unpleasant to play. From Wordnik.com. [The X-Factor] Reference
First one and then the other made a daring move which appeared to place his opponent in difficulties, but each time disaster was ingeniously evaded. From Wordnik.com. [Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends] Reference
Beyond the sensuality that Brazil is famous for, the country produces a culture that ingeniously uses art as a platform for social change and justice. From Wordnik.com. [Lauri Lyons: Brazilian Filmmakers Show Us the Future] Reference
It was surrounded by a strong, but neat hedge of the ti-plant some three and a half feet high, with an ingeniously contrived wicker gate opposite the door. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
Also, she did not wish to leave him, and ingeniously invented excuses to go to see him twice a day; in the morning on going to her lessons, and in the afternoon or evening. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
One thing is certain: 'In every physical laboratory we see ingeniously devised tools for executing the work of sculpture, according to the designs of the theoretical physicist. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
The tower is very ingeniously constructed, and contains a well-furnished sitting room, in which is a capital collection of popular works, and three or four comfortable bedrooms. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
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