His ingenuity, originality, patience, power of organization and his methodical preparations for carrying out operations were always a great factor in ensuring success.

Their ingenuity in all technical contrivances is an additional testimony in the same direction, and so is their singular clearness of expression.

"He is a Yankee, I suppose,'" said Douglas, as if ingenuity were a low habit that must be tolerated in an American.

His ingenuity was also to be used to cover up, if possible, all evidence that the house had been entered at all, it being desirable to make it appear to the court that I had never had these documents in my possession, and that they never existed.

The deliberate ingenuity of the nastiness is its most debasing feature.

Certainly his ingenuity of economy with his materials was no little marvel, and he confessed to often being at his wits' end.

They are right in this muchthat their own ingenuity is a faithful representative of that of the mass; but when the cunning of the individual felon is diverse in character from their own, the felon foils them of course.