The interpretation may or may not be what the deviser intended. From Wordnik.com. [Attached to Strings] Reference
No doubt, the government and the deviser of the model would find this all too embarrasing. From Wordnik.com. [More Unthreaded « Climate Audit] Reference
Wisdom wishes to be acknowledged as the deviser of the wonderful attempering and qualifying of justice and mercy. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1] Reference
She might have ended up the deviser of merely fascinating stories, gizmos and thingamajigs that brought off-kilter delight. From Wordnik.com. [New York Review: The Collected Stories Of Lydia Davis] Reference
The first deviser thereof was hanged by the neck -- a just reward, no doubt, for his deserts, and a common end to all of that profession. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference
Catesby was the original deviser of the Gunpowder Plot. From Wordnik.com. [It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot] Reference
The most penitent of all was the deviser of the original idea. From Wordnik.com. [The Brownies and Other Tales] Reference
A shudder ran through Isoult Avery at the name of the deviser of the. From Wordnik.com. [Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution] Reference
Check out the travel deviser you printed out to find points of concern. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
Major props to performer / lead deviser Dean Evans and musician Curtis Williams. From Wordnik.com. [Chicagoist] Reference
The deviser of Utopias had such an opening as had never occurred in the world's history. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume I.] Reference
They all have a lead deviser who can really act as the director and leader of the vision. From Wordnik.com. [Chicagoist] Reference
If you get more tons per hour it gives you much better deviser of your cost into more tons. From Wordnik.com. [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference
I, too, bearing with me a great avenger, O deviser of tortures, and enemy of the truly pious. From Wordnik.com. [Siris] Reference
We knew her as the deviser of jazzy, brightly melodic, and somehow disarmingly childlike tunes. From Wordnik.com. [Largehearted Boy] Reference
You think yourself the destined savior of Rome and the deviser of priceless plans for Rome's future. From Wordnik.com. [Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire] Reference
His mother seemed to be director-general of these monsters, a ruthless deviser of exquisite tortures. From Wordnik.com. [Bunker Bean] Reference
The usual compliments, however, were showered on Mrs. Trent as the deviser of so remarkable a theatre. From Wordnik.com. [A Voyage to Arcturus] Reference
Always were they of food, and always was the food, at his lips, snatched away by the malign deviser of dreams. From Wordnik.com. [Smoke Bellew] Reference
A word coined by Lamb from Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count von Rumford, the founder of the Royal Institution, the deviser of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb] Reference
John of Padua had a salary as deviser of his majesty's buildings, and was employed to build the palace of the protector Somerset. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth] Reference
Verily, I greatly fear that if these same letters were traced to their deviser, it would prove to be the one who is sitting here. From Wordnik.com. [Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland] Reference
Had the deviser been less charitable, William and John had been less guilty: the gift of one man becomes a temptation to another. From Wordnik.com. [An History of Birmingham (1783)] Reference
This virtually new engine of research was delivered and mounted in 1829, three years after the termination of the life of its deviser. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition] Reference
The first deviser thereof was hanged by the neck, -- a just reward, no doubt, for his deserts, and a common end to all of that profession. From Wordnik.com. [American Sketches 1908] Reference
First father of sauce, and deviser of jelly. From Wordnik.com. [There's a Shakespeare meme going around for Poetry Month, and I have to be contrary:] Reference
This deviser of all error!. From Wordnik.com. [The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries] Reference
You, whether doer or deviser, who. From Wordnik.com. [Life Is a Dream] Reference
O idle deviser of impossible things!. From Wordnik.com. [Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection] Reference
And thou, deviser of all evil wiles!. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper] Reference
The deviser of this plan was Colonel. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 492, June 4, 1831] Reference
A sauce-deviser for thy days of fish. From Wordnik.com. [Becket and other plays] Reference
And arch-deviser of the chieftain's doom!. From Wordnik.com. [The House of Atreus] Reference
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