The whole elaborate contrivance for keeping people away, puzzled Katrina.

The crane was quite an elaborate contrivance, for which Joseph the gardener was to be thanked.

All that he had seen, all this elaborate contrivance to prevent him seeing, worked together in his mind.

The next day the Bureau mechanics began to dismount the apparatus from the tank and to assemble another elaborate contrivance.

I have a more elaborate contrivance in my apparatus to produce the same result, which I need not stop to explain.

But I will not by anticipation make thee a judge of all the benefits that may flow from this my elaborate contrivance.

More elaborate contrivances are growing in favour, and will inevitably swell each year's returns.