Verb (used with object) : The author contrived a clever plot. ,He contrived to gain their votes. From Dictionary.com.
Mr. Gurney was a notable contriver of such carriages. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
What an admirable contriver did I think myself till now!. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
The contriver of her ills for a moment cowered beneath her eye. From Wordnik.com. [Ferdinando Eboli] Reference
He flies even you, you the fair contriver of his auspicious fortunes. From Wordnik.com. [The Beau Defeated: or, The Lucky Younger Brother] Reference
It is needless to ask if you too are the contriver who sent me the citizens?. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference
So, my dear, it comes out, that I myself was obliged to this deep contriver. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
An excellent contriver, surely, she must think this worthy Mr. Tomlinson to be!. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
The King, thinking the humble prince was the contriver of the arson, censured him. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Han Fei Tzu] Reference
This is a sign of sound business capacity and a plodding contriver in transactions. From Wordnik.com. [Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves] Reference
Mettus there is the leader of that march, the same Mettus is the contriver of this war. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08] Reference
The King of Wey, thinking Hsi Shou was the contriver of the assassination, censured3 him. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Han Fei Tzu] Reference
He was never the cause of unnecessary bloodshed, nor the contriver of any act of cruel revenge. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
Cox, who was not only the principal actor, but also the contriver and author of most of these farces. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Pantomime] Reference
Who was John McDonogh, the maker of the foregoing will, and contriver of such a grand scheme of charity?. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
That too proves him to be a clever contriver of situations, and an ingenious adept with the pen and scissors. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841] Reference
January 6th, 2006 at 8: 40 pm click says: contriver: anatomically devise tributes: fertilized Lowell. speedups. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » EU wants answers on secret prisons.] Reference
Indeed the world, let me escape whither, and to whomsoever I could, would conclude him to be the contriver of it. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Can you, with honour, be the knowing, the wilful occasion, nay, the artful contriver of the ruin of a human being?. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling] Reference
You shall advise me how to act, the more willingly I hope, as you are in a sense the contriver of all the mischief. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
He was melancholy and downcast, plainly resentful in his bearing toward Morgan as the contriver of this business stagnation. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
Sharp, Giles, contriver of mysterious noises at Woodstock Palace, ii. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds] Reference
Collins, Joseph, contriver of mysterious noises at Woodstock Palace, ii. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds] Reference
The excellency of the work shows the wonderful counsellor and the wise contriver. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning] Reference
A few paces would set me in the midst of a scene of which I was the abhorred contriver. From Wordnik.com. [Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker] Reference
This is a little trick wrought by some pitiful contriver, envious of my nephew's merit. From Wordnik.com. [The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2]] Reference
Again that restless and versatile contriver, Bristol, had set himself to overturn the scheme. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02] Reference
The contriver of enormous evil was, in one moment, bereft of the power and the will to injure. From Wordnik.com. [Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker] Reference
This was the same Narcissus that is mentioned in the last chapter, as the artful contriver, with. From Wordnik.com. [Nero Makers of History Series] Reference
And now clasp this securely, that he may perceive himself to be a duller contriver than Jupiter. From Wordnik.com. [Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes] Reference
Crawford was given out for its head and contriver, albeit be professed to me his opposition to it. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning] Reference
Whether the contriver or not of this spell, he was able to unbind it, and to check the fury of my brother. From Wordnik.com. [Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale] Reference
White, your idea is a good one, you are a splendid contriver; but I must find some one to carry out the plan. From Wordnik.com. [The Expressman and the Detective] Reference
There is another deity who is described as the calumniator of the gods and the contriver of all fraud and mischief. From Wordnik.com. [The Age of Fable] Reference
So declared the dealer in hog-meat, who seemed rather gratified that he no longer stood alone as a contriver of false alarms. From Wordnik.com. [The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West] Reference
Hannibal learned all this by means of his spies, and other sources of information, which so good a contriver as he has always at command. From Wordnik.com. [Hannibal Makers of History] Reference
Then, addressing Azan's force, he proclaimed himself the sole contriver of the scheme, and professed his willingness to bear the punishment. From Wordnik.com. [The True Story Book] Reference
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