I mentioned to him our contrivance of silver forks, to lessen this labour; but he coldly remarked, that he imagined science was in its infancy with us.

A more diabolical contrivance for frightening a man into his grave could scarcely have been contrived.

The inhabitants of Scotland, and especially of the Highlands, are notorious for their fondness for snuff; and many were the contrivances by which they formerly reduced the tobacco into powder.

Other contrivances in his head to bring Clarissa back, if she should get away.

Nobody in them days tho't of sich contrivances as trollin'-rods, reels, and minny-gangs.

His legs, too, he next became vaguely aware, were fastened by a similar contrivance to the deck.

Sometimes we lightly identify it with motor cars and gramophones and other Western contrivances with which individual traders and travellers dazzle and bewilder the untutored savage.

The lies, twaddles, and contrivances about this affair are innumerable.

This man had, near his house, a contrivance like that which is used in armies where soldiers are punished with the picket; by this the slave was drawn up from the earth, by a cord passing round his wrists, so that his feet could just touch the ground.

I found the happiest contrivances against the universal invader fail.

He readily consented, and conducted us at once into his kitchen, and showed us inventions and contrivances out of number, for saving fuel, and meat, and labour; in short, for saving every thing but money.

He stands in the shadow of the mechanical contrivance on which he has been illustrating his points; leans for support on it.

Many were my contrivances after this purpose, and as many more objections occurred after I hatched them.

Instead of teeth, the jaws of the new trap have pads of corrugated rubber, which grip as tightly and effectively as the old contrivance without breaking the bones or piercing the skin.

The Spaniards appear to have copied this useful contrivance from the Moors, but the natives were acquainted with them before the arrival of the Europeans, for Morga mentions similar batalanes.

A measuring roller runs beside the printing disk, and on this is stamped the required figures by a simple contrivance at the desired distances, say every five yards.

"When she had cut the cake, and everybody's plate was empty, Doodles asked her to pull a pink ribbon hanging from the umbrella-like contrivance over her head.