1
Any projector can contrive new impositions; any bungler can add to the old.
2
Every hour they contrive new intrigues and fraud, and bring forth new calumny.
3
He was to contrive new diversions and amusements.
4
Strategists, artists of all denominations, physicists who contrive new experiments, and in short all who do not follow routine, have need of it.
5
Her woman's ingenuity contrived new little tricks with the instrument of torture.
6
Their mother was not so skilful at contriving new clothes out of old.
7
The instinct for acquisition is so strong that men are constantly contriving new and improved methods for getting property.
8
He contrives new additions to his cottage; he dashes off the charming "Life of Goldsmith" at a heat.
9
He contrived new ways of bathing, when the richest oils and most precious perfumes were lavished with the utmost profusion.