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Meanings of own contrivance in English

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Usage of own contrivance in English
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Then he began to experiment, with some rude apparatus of his own contrivance.
Self Help; with Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance
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Thy scheme was too politic to be of thy own contrivance speak, fellow!
The Works of Frederick Schiller
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Her name was among the missing by her own contrivance.
The Tidal Wave and Other Stories
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He was delighted with his own contrivance, and never again placed any confidence in friends.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 12 [Supplem...
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At last his precious oil gave out, and he used instead an insignificant mixture of his own contrivance.
Medical Essays, 1842-1882
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The title itself is my own contrivance, (can't call it invention), and has the merit of veracity.
Within the Tides: Tales
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She had never liked the man, but Fate or his own contrivance was continually throwing him in her way.
The Top of the World
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She entered a room lighted by a small metal lamp hanging on the wall- aprecautionof Pennyloaf's own contrivance.
The Nether World
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Thus, by his own contrivance, neither Avice nor the young man held communication with Jocelyn by word or by sign.
The Well-Beloved: A Sketch of a Temperament
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But the difficulties of the ground, which had been intended for the enemy, now entangled them in the snares of their own contrivance.
The History of Rome, Books 09 to 26
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In 1819, he compiled the "Annals of Peterhead," a duodecimo volume, which he printed at a press of his own contrivance.
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volumes 1-6. / The Songs of Scotla...
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For these two hours past have I hated myself for my own contrivances.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 5
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Eustacia was nettled by her own contrivances.
The Return of the Native
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"I feel spitefully toward him somehow, although our separation was my own contrivance."
Molly Bawn
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