We understood nothing that they said, and therefore could answer their harangue only by shouting, and making all the signs of invitation and kindness that we could devise.
I had a great desire to learn where she got her beads and bracelets, and enquired by all the signs I could devise, but found it impossible to make myself understood.
We invited them to come on board by all the signs we could devise, but without success; I therefore took the jolly-boat, and went on shore to them.
I have furnished the student with the plainest and most practical directions that I could devise.
Smith, Hall, Hiley, and many others, have copied it into their grammars, as being better than any definition they could devise.
I have furnished the student with the plainest and most practical directions which I could devise.
To stroll about the town, to call upon my fellow-sufferers, to visit the principal shops, and to talk with the good Dutch people while I made slight purchases, was all I could devise to do that required action.
It has already appeared that I was not of a temper to endure calamity, without endeavouring, by every means I could devise, to elude and disarm it.
As the best expedient I could devise, I bent my course towards the wood I have mentioned, and then pursued, as well as I was able, the windings of the inclosure.
He consulted his attorney, and urged him by every motive he could devise, to employ the whole series of his subterfuges in the present affair.
I dared not sink the truth to my poor queen, though I mixed in it whatever I Could devise of cheer and hope; and she bore it with the most wonderful calmness.
In him I imputed it to unhappiness of circumstances, and was filled with compassion for his fate: in this person I impute it to something blameable within, and I tried by all the arguments I could devise to give him better notions.
He always looked up to Isaac as the friend who had early raised him from a downward and slippery path; and he was never weary of manifesting gratitude by every little attention he could devise.
He could devise no means to rescue the sufferer; and with an aching heart he was compelled to see him carried off into slavery, without being able to offer any other solace than an affectionate farewell.
He suffered with great patience, making no complaint, and endeavouring to inspire us with hope in every manner he could devise.
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