The prisoners were immediately acquitted, and the ministry incurred a heavy load of popular odium, as the authors or abettors of knavish contrivances to insnare the innocent.
Before passing on to the next chapter we have still to mention the mechanical contrivances for sewing.
Of all contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effectual than that which deluded them with paper money.
Of all the contrivancesfor cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effectual than that which deludes them with paper money.
Born and bred in a cottage, she had a natural horror of staircases, looking on them as dangerous contrivances on which people daily risked their lives.
All thesecontrivances to get rid of leads are evidence that the painter is coming more and more to the front in glass, and that the glazier is retiring more and more into the background.
The consideration whereof set me upon my contrivances how I might secure to myself as much of the gingerbread as would keep good for the next two or three days, and yet none of the rest in manner be wasted.
All the culinary and other contrivances which the Count and I had taken so much trouble to fit up in the kitchen as an exhibition--and many of them were really good things--were put away.
The inhabitants of Scotland, and especially of the Highlands, are notorious for their fondness for snuff; and many were the contrivances by which they formerly reduced the tobacco into powder.
We shall see, as we proceed, the curious contrivancesresorted to for protecting insects in this helpless state.
Their prospective contrivances for accomplishing these objects are in the highest degree curious.
It is for this reason that the contrivances which an insect employs for obtaining its food are curious, in proportion to the natural difficulties of its structure.
The dangers to which insect life is exposed are manifold; and therefore are the contrivances for its preservation of the most perfect kind, and invariably adapted to the peculiar habits of each tribe.
Many species employ those contrivances during the period of their hibernation, or winter sleep.
Insects which lay few eggs are, commonly, most remarkable in theircontrivances for their preservation.
Yet he never shrinks from them, because his instinct tells him that by these contrivances alone can he preserve his own existence, and continue that of his species.
DV] Other insects employ different contrivancesfor escape, as we have already seen, and shall still further exemplify.
And off he went, with instructions to find out all that he could about these contrivances that he had heard about, and to do what he could to promote their production.
If our reason leads us to admire with enthusiasm a multitude of inimitablecontrivances in nature, this same reason tells us, though we may easily err on both sides, that some other contrivances are less perfect.
Nor ought we to marvel if all the contrivances in nature be not, as far as we can judge, absolutely perfect; and if some of them be abhorrent to our ideas of fitness.
A time may come when people will regard the contrivances and machinery of the American constitution as the political equivalents of the implements and contrivances of Neolithic man.
Political well-being demands that electoral methods shall be used, and economic well-being requires that a currency shall be used, safeguarded or proof against the contrivances and manipulations of clever, dishonest men.
By the contrivances of Plotina, his wife, Trajan was succeeded by his cousin and pupil, whom he is said also to have adopted, P.
After having successfully put an end to the commotions which called him there, he was poisoned by the contrivancesof Cn.
Their ingenuity in all technical contrivances is an additional testimony in the same direction, and so is their singular clearness of expression.
Some vibrations are too rapid and some too slow to affect our senses, and therefore we have called to our aid various mechanicalcontrivances which enable us to recognize existences which would otherwise remain unknown.
From time to time, during the past fifty years, there have been invented or arranged various forms of mechanical contrivances designed to assist in the development of writing mediumship.
Bramah and Maudslay, and of thecontrivances of Bentham and Sir I.
Nature has many other curious vegetable contrivances for the dispersion of seeds: see note on Helianthus.
That foolish girl, by the way, has married a farmer, a friend of Brother William; and Aunt Sophia knits a great many little contrivances of wool for the results.
The value of mines and of similar contrivances of the engineer is partly psychological.
The work assigned to us later was to unearth and withdraw all mines left in dugout entrances and elsewhere, and pick up all bomb-traps and devilish contrivancesof a similar nature.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contrivances" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
