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Meanings of ingenious contrivance in English

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Usage of ingenious contrivance in English
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By this ingenious contrivance he gave the history of the last age.
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1
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This ingenious contrivance was applied by Mr. Everett to the paying-out machinery.
Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made
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The press used by the Indians is a simple and most ingenious contrivance.
A Voyage round the World / A book for boys
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He produced the model of an ingenious contrivance for grinding corn.
Biographical Sketches / (From: "Fanshawe and Other Pieces")
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This was an ingenious contrivance on the part of the landlord to solicit custom.
The Parish Clerk
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Netty had hers for her ingenious contrivance to gain Jasper.
Life's Little Ironies / A set of tales with some colloquial sket...
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The inventor employed a most ingenious contrivance to preserve the horizontal balance of the air-ship.
The Mastery of the Air
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By an ingenious contrivance ink could not be spilt from the inkwells of the F.E.
If Winter Comes
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An ingenious contrivance, then, for keeping one's self informed upon the business of the neighborhood.
The Gates of Chance
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This is a very ingenious contrivance, which measures time well in both rough weather and fine.
The Malay Archipelago, Volume 2 / The Land of the Orang-utan and...
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Claudius thought it an ingenious contrivance, but said it must be very wearing on the nerves.
Doctor Claudius, A True Story
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Hardly any subject has had more discussion in recent literature than the merits of this ingenious contrivance.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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Every common labourer has, in short, by this ingenious contrivance, some small capital and a country residence.
Russia
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And John complacently displayed the ingenious contrivance in front of his desk, somewhat like a bicycle seat.
His Family
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Nevertheless he was manifestly pleased by the success of his ingenious contrivance, and forthwith completed the cordon.
The Wings of the Morning
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By this ingenious contrivance, did they get over the difficulty, of not being provided with a not.
The Cliff Climbers / A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters"
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