In 1862, a technique was contrived to take a series of photographs showing stages of movement. From LearnThat.org. [www.ldoceonline.com]
'em, an 'contrive 'em, both sides on 'em, all an' similar!. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Union Scout] Reference
How did you contrive to get so high up in the world? '. From Wordnik.com. [Parables from Flowers] Reference
That's all; never mind, I shall contrive to live on it. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
There was a scenic effect to contrive with the manager: a. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
I shall contrive to see Malay Kris and send him after you. From Wordnik.com. [The Cat in Grandfather's House] Reference
Clever women usually contrive to secure a captive of this kind. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
How did the ancients contrive to while away the time without it?. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
It was long enough, too, for Mrs. Byrne to "contrive a procedure.". From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
If he will not, then it will be time to contrive ulterior measures. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
"We may contrive, later on, to get a glimpse of the steering compass.". From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Volunteers with the Submarine Fleet] Reference
My lips shall not speak iniquity, neither shall my tongue contrive lying. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job The Challoner Revision] Reference
Other times they contrive to get introduced in some way, going as visitors. From Wordnik.com. [A Missionary Twig] Reference
Once in power he will contrive to centre all power and interests in himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882] Reference
Carlyle says: "If a book come from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts.". From Wordnik.com. [The Right Knock A Story] Reference
To that end she must contrive to fall out with the spinster, and "fall in" with Madame Cora. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
Now, she felt that in some mysterious way Kate would contrive to take from her her new-found joy. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
Indeed, those who come here essentially for health generally contrive to get housed about four p.m. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference
Her sole thought was to contrive opportunities for more of this fascinating conversation, and she and. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
Their evening commences at 10.30, when tea is served, and you are lucky if you can contrive to get away by. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference
Without conceding an inch to the mutineers 'complaints, they contrive to end the meeting on a positive note. From Wordnik.com. [The School Of Hard Knocks] Reference
She even thought she could contrive to climb up to the opening and get outside, but after that came the rub. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
"We may be here quite a long while," Mr. Wordsley said, and could not contrive to sound downhearted about it. From Wordnik.com. [The Marooner] Reference
They heard me out very gravely, and promised to contrive some means of communicating with me in case of need. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine] Reference
There was but one game which made a young man think, and plan, and contrive as never before to come out ahead. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Star — and what It saw on Its Journey through the Ages] Reference
It is mercy from everlasting to contrive thy salvation, and mercy to everlasting to resist all thy adversaries. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
French monarch contrive to escape the force of truth like the following, with which the preacher immediately proceeds?. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
How could this fat, uniformed mountain of stupidity still contrive to deny the facts and dare speak to him the way he did?. From Wordnik.com. [I Was a Teen-Age Secret Weapon] Reference
The captain, consumed with anguish as he thought of his own two daughters, begged Mr. Meriton to contrive some way of escape. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
She saw him, as he entered the conservatory, in one of those instantaneous glances by which women contrive to see without looking. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
They contrive a flirtation between Paul and Jules, played by Julianne Moore, whose lyric ditheriness carries echoes of Diane Keaton. From Wordnik.com. [Cholodenko's 'Kids' Flick: More Than Just All Right] Reference
By the most ingenious and fiendish combinations possible for a human being to contrive, you wrecked my fortune and with it my hopes. From Wordnik.com. [Edmond Dantès] Reference
As for myself, I am little other than a cloud at such seasons, but such persons contrive to make me a sunny one, shining all through me. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
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