Had it been otherwise, he would have felt apologetic; the monitor he would not admit was his conscience would have prescribed amends to Marianne for contriving to be so jolly without her.
Charlotte never asked pardon for the offender without contriving to suggest a new offence.
They were using every wile and trick and dodge that ingenuity or inspiration could provide them with, and they were mostlycontriving to hold out.
It twisted here and there amid countless swarming native villages, and was used almost exclusively by natives, whose rightful business was neither war nor peace nor the contriving of either of them.
In the end Zeus is forced to bring Persephone back from the lower world; but the goddess, by the contriving of Hades, still remains partly a deity of the lower world.
The adjudging of the arms of Achilles takes place, and Odysseus, by the contriving of Athena, gains them.
For he learned from Earth and starry Heaven that he was destined to be overcome by his own son, strong though he was, through the contriving of great Zeus [1619].
And what good fortune for Elizabeth," she said, "whose welfare was always such a source of thought and contriving to me.
To think of me so busy planning and contriving for your pleasure, and you saying that you don't want any of my plans!
He broke the public law of temperance by his own excess, contriving to get at what he loved by a device both cunning and absurd.
As each door was blown in the building to which it belonged was stormed; the enemy, however, contriving to effect an exit by the rear as our lads poured in at the front.
I mean in future to be the active working and contriving partner in the firm.
Should I part in a moment, and for nothing, with what I have acquired at the expense of a great deal of contriving and putting together?
She was, earnestly as she had sought for employment, now angry with herself for having been amused by writing her narrative; and grieved to think that she had for an instant thought of any thing, but contriving to escape.
They spoke of her and thought of her as "the child," and if any hard or disagreeable piece of work had to be done, they both vied with each other in contriving that it should not fall to Cherry's lot.
I should do so a little time after noon, contriving to be below Leonard on the poll.
That brain of yours is evermore contriving Some villainy to torture me withal.
So a boy passes his leisure in contriving mischief.
To the honor of the people this intended effect never occurred; no one of those contriving these distributions ever reaching the high object of their ambition.
There is no striving To cross his intent; There is no contriving His plots to prevent; But if once the message greet him That his True Love doth stay, If Death should come and meet him, Love will find out the way!
The whole of the previous part of this book has been devoted to the contriving of the several meals usual in a work-a-day household and under ordinary circumstances.
While he was thus spending the day in contriving a scheme for the morrow, distress stole upon him by imperceptible degrees.
Behold the increment," he said, "of the turned cheek and of the contriving of good for him that had despitefully used me!
He prepared surprises for her with as much forethought and trouble as though he were contriving mines to blow up an enemy.
She answers with a look of contempt, that men never care how money goes, and proceeds to tell of a dozen new chairs for which she is contriving covers, and of a couch which she intends to stand as a monument of needle-work.
I would not advise my readers to disturb themselves by contriving how they shall live without light and water.
By such means I had so embarrassed myself, that my whole attention was engaged in contriving excuses, and raising small sums to quiet such as words would no longer mollify.
Accordingly, I put myself to contriving how I might get over to the other Indians, among whom matters turned somewhat more favorably for me.
While contriving and seeking for some means to cross the bay, there came over to them an Indian, and a Christian whom they recognized to be Figueroa, one of the four we had sent forward from the island of Malhado.
