1865 examples of devises in sentences

I at first contemn'd Their weak devises and faint enterprise.

I will give up all right and title to my grandfather's devises and bequests, with all my heart and soul, to whom they please, in order to make my proposal palatable to my brother.

Skill devises means when strength fails.

The law of testamentary devises, in particular, has more than the usual uncertainty, the great interest that is taken by the community in the large estates of certain individuals who are placed without the ordinary social categories by the magnitude of their fortunes, preventing anything from becoming absolutely settled, as respects them.

Nor hounds alone this noxious brood destroy: The plundered warrener full many a wile Devises to entrap his greedy foe, Fat with nocturnal spoils.

For he was clad in strange accoustrements, Fashion'd with queint devises never seene In court before, yet there all fashions beene; Yet he them in newfanglenesse did pas.

One needs only to read The Paradyse of Daynty Devises (1576), or A Gorgeous Gallery of Gallant Inventions (1578), or any other of the miscellaneous collections to find hundreds of songs, many of them of exquisite workmanship, by poets whose names now awaken no response.

Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Paradyse of Daynty Devises Paraphrase, of Cædmon Parish Register, The Pauline Pearl, The Pelham Pendennis Pepys, Samuel (pep'is, peeps, pips) Percy, Thomas Peregrine Pickle (per'e-grin) Pericles and Aspasia (per'i-kl[=e]z, as-p[=a]'shi-ä)

As I have insisted in each of these lectures, salvation is not through machinery but through the individual soul, for it is life itself that is operating, not the instruments that man devises in his ingenuity.

[Sidenote: The Lady Moeya devises mischief against Tristram]

Casques et boucliers, cuirasses gigantesques, Cris d'armes, mot d'amour, devises de l'honneur, Carlets pour l'infidèle ou pour le suborneur, Tout garde sur ces murs vraiment chevaleresques.

Elevé sur les dessins de l'architecte Marchand, il était surtout remarquable par son architecture simple, ses nombreuses devises, les chiffres amoureux et les emblèmes allégoriques qui le décoroient, et qui faisoient une ingénieuse allusion à la passion du monarque pour sa mâitresse.

The same instinct which foresees and devises for the loved ones will also recognize their most hidden traits, their utmost possibilities, their inevitable limitations, with a completeness and infallibility akin to that of God Himself.

Be watchful and diligent and let your mind be fruitful in devises for the honest advancement of your worldly interest.

A covenanted official who can speak the native languages, who distinguishes himself in literature or in oratory, who devises plans for public works, or distinguishes himself in other intellectual or official lines of activity is sure to be recognized and receive rapid advancement, while those who prefer to perform only the arduous duties that are required of them will naturally remain in the background.

Into the hands of the champions in "The Flower and the Leaf," he has placed bows instead of boughs, because the word is in the original spelled bowes; and, having made the error, he immediately devises an explanation of the device which he had mistaken: "For bows the strength of brawny arms imply, Emblems of valour, and of victory.

For perverse thoughts separate from God, And his power, when it is tried, convicts the foolish; For wisdom will not enter into a soul that devises evil, Nor dwell in a body that is pledged to sin.

So I must wait, and wait, and wait, Antoine, till he devises some trumped-up accusation.

But once more the viduschaka devises a ruse which puts him in possession of the seal ring.

I THE MYSTERIOUS PATIENT II THORNDYKE DEVISES A SCHEME III "A CHIEL'S AMANG YE TAKIN' NOTES" IV THE OFFICIAL VIEW V JEFFREY BLACKMORE'S WILL VI JEFFREY BLACKMORE, DECEASED VII THE CUNEIFORM INSCRIPTION VIII THE TRACK CHART IX THE HOUSE OF MYSTERY X THE HUNTER HUNTED XI THE BLACKMORE CASE REVIEWED XII THE PORTRAIT XIII

Chapter II Thorndyke Devises a Scheme As I entered the Temple by the Tudor Street gate the aspect of the place smote my senses with an air of agreeable familiarity.

The young men strolled off to his sugar-camp during the forenoon, lounged learnedly about, evincing little interest in the camp and surroundings, although the deepening season had filled the woods with flowers and birds; and Bart wondered whether "Coke on Littleton," and executory devises, and contingent remainders, had produced in them their natural consequences.

It is not the zoölogist who invents the structural relations establishing a gradation between all Polyps,it is not the geologist who places them in the succession in which he finds them in the rocks,it is not the embryologist who devises the changes through which the living Polyps pass as he watches their growth; they only read what they see, and when they compare their results they all tell the same story.

He spies on lovers as they pass unsuspecting; he haunts the ale-houses and overhears men's tales over their cups; if business be dull he even devises scandal among neighbors, and sets them at enmity.

"Go then, and say to her, that my sentiments are decided to curtail certain bequests and devises, which have consulted her interests more than strict justice to others of my blooday, and even of my name, might dictate.

1865 examples of  devises  in sentences