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Meanings of elaborate contrivance in English

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Usage of elaborate contrivance in English
1
The whole elaborate contrivance for keeping people away, puzzled Katrina.
Golden Stories / A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost...
2
The crane was quite an elaborate contrivance, for which Joseph the gardener was to be thanked.
Tattine
3
All that he had seen, all this elaborate contrivance to prevent him seeing, worked together in his mind.
The sleeper awakes
4
The next day the Bureau mechanics began to dismount the apparatus from the tank and to assemble another elaborate contrivance.
Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1930
5
I have a more elaborate contrivance in my apparatus to produce the same result, which I need not stop to explain.
Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development
6
But I will not by anticipation make thee a judge of all the benefits that may flow from this my elaborate contrivance.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 5
7
More elaborate contrivances are growing in favour, and will inevitably swell each year's returns.
The Story of Newfoundland
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