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Meanings of ingeniously contrived in English

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Usage of ingeniously contrived in English
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Their traps, of which they can make variety, are very ingeniously contrived.
The History of Sumatra / Containing An Account Of The Government...
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The plan, so ingeniously contrived, pleased the fancy of the boys.
The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen
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The upper part is filled with an ingeniously contrived system of running spirals.
A History of Greek Art / With an Introductory Chapter on Art in ...
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The blow-pipe which these Indians use is an ingeniously contrived weapon.
Martin Rattler
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It was, like everything else I had seen, very ingeniously contrived.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition...
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Ah, it was a deep, deep satire, and most ingeniously contrived.
Sketches New and Old
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She threw off a disguise, ingeniously contrived, and Ellen beheld her cousin William!
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2
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The walls were ingeniously contrived and fixed up by Marston.
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917
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He likewise embarked on board the Susquehanna apparatuses for compressed air, very ingeniously contrived.
The Moon-Voyage
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I imagine he was making an explosive bomb, ingeniously contrived of five glass tubes.
The Dream Doctor
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The creek seepage had turned out to be equally counterfeit, but even more ingeniously contrived.
Flowing Gold
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An ingeniously contrived floating rake drags off this scum and delivers it over the side of the pan.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882
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The cinders were removed by another pipe, most ingeniously contrived, which also answered the purpose of a ventilator.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 1...
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Moreover, Mr. Flint had ingeniously contrived almost to make the act, in Austen's eyes, that of a picayune upstart.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
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The besiegers were much annoyed with devices, ingeniously contrived by the garrison to intimidate them, and hinder and injure their work.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1
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Others were maintained in perfect health of body and mind, only to be felled at last by some ingeniously contrived tragic experience.
Last and First Men
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