If not just, and if I cannot contrive to clear myself of having entertained suspicions, by assigning some other plausible reason for my denial, the very staying here will have an appearance not at all reputable to myself.

NORTON, Cannot you, without naming me as an adviser, who am hated by the family, contrive a way to let Mrs. Harlowe know, that in an accidental conversation with me, you had been assured that my beloved friend pines after a reconciliation with her relations?

We all know what an inventive genius thou art master of: we are all sensible, that thou hast a head to contrive, and a heart to execute.

Oh, if there were only some way in which I could contrive to give him money without his knowing it.

"I've been so interested in my Virgil, so wrapped up in my rhetoric and composition, that I haven't thought of ways and means for a month, but of course we will never leave the Yellow House, and of course we must contrive to earn money enough to live in it.

He can contrive accurately to discern the countenance of every other person, without being visible himself.

You may easily contrive to scatter them through the whole circumference of this apartment.

The sentence must be two or three times repeated at proper intervals, before you can contrive to have each of the lords in turn at the required distance.

While the battle is waged on this ground, therefore, they will probably continue to side with the Upper Canada Liberals, unless the latter contrive to alienate them by some act of extravagance....

They were of opinion also that such of the magistrates, as were interested in the trade, when applied to for warrants of apprehension, would contrive to give notice to the officers to escape.

Most of us are afraid of mortification of the body, and would contrive all means to avoid such a thing, but we care not about the soul's mortification.

V. plan, scheme, design, frame, contrive, project, forecast, sketch; devise, invent &c (imagine) 515; set one's wits to work &c 515; spring a project; fall upon, hit upon; strike out, chalk out, cut out, lay out, map out; lay down a plan; shape out a course, mark out a course; predetermine &c 611; concert, preconcert, preestablish; prepare &c 673; hatch, hatch a plot concoct; take steps, take measures.

V. be cunning &c adj.; have cut one's eyeteeth; contrive &c (plan) 626; live by one's wits; maneuver; intrigue, gerrymander, finesse, double, temporize, stoop to conquer,

How did the Christian kingdom of Jerusalem contrive to exist for more than three-quarters of a century?

After I have first spoken to her, you are to take the matter into your own hands, for, to tell you the truth, I have not the heart to contrive it further.

But this plan of our merchant-burgess had in addition a spice of ingenuity in it which still more pleased himhe would so contrive matters that the daughter and the nephew would become, after his death, man and wife.

Dinner came at last: the table was loaded with awkward profusion; but it was as close an imitation as we could yet contrive of our opulent neighbour's display.

Those who are deficient in any particular accomplishment usually contrive either openly or indirectly to express their contempt for it: thus removing that obstacle which removes them from the same level.

I long ago formed the habit of praying at night individually, if possible, for all who had come to me through the day, or whom I had visited; but you contrive to get a much larger share than that.

We do contrive to live through queer experiences.

"If we were to contrive a new language, we might make any articulate sound the sign of any idea: there would be no impropriety in calling oxen men, or rational beings by the name of oxen.

"It is the artifice of some, to contrive false periods of business, that they may seem men of despatch.

" She said, impotently, "I am sorryEven at the last you contrive for me a new sorrow"

I reply to the familiar spirit: "I might doubt opposite theories quite as much; I contrive what I can in defence of my love,it is my natural law."

In return Marfa Timofeevna was obliged to promise that, if Liza had not changed her mind at the end of the six months, she would herself assist in the matter, and would contrive to obtain Madame Kalitine's consent.