Devise some means of taking him away from his star-gazing for only an hour.
Very little ingenuity will be necessary to devise some plan, by which the scholars may be apportioned among these, so that each shall supply a given number, and the teacher be relieved entirely.
The great point is, to devise some plan to reach the whole evil, and to correct it, if possible.
I will try to devise some method, by which you may carry your plan into effect, and to-morrow I wilt tell you what it is.
For the first time, he has become alive to the folly of which he has been guilty, and, full of remorse, he has commissioned me to devise some stratagem to break off the affair.
My earnest desire, therefore, is to devise some means of escape from this cruel persecution.
I reflected on my desperate situation with a degree of calmness, hoping that I might be able to devise some means of escape.
His description of Philadelphia, and of the liberty enjoyed there by the black people, so charmed my imagination that I determined to devise some plan of escaping from the frigate, and making my way to the North.
It is hoped that Congress will be able to devise some means of reconciling the difficulties which have thus been created, so as to do justice to all parties involved.
The need is to devise some system by which undesirable immigrants shall be kept out entirely, while desirable immigrants are properly distributed throughout the country.
Once it was thought that the secret convention would be sent to Warnham Hall, and I was compelled to go down there to devise somemeans of obtaining it.
I hesitated for several moments, trying todevise some means to avoid answering this abrupt question.
I soon found it necessary to devise some means of support for myself and child.
Letters {203} from the distressed people were continually arriving, praying the general to devise some means to put a stop to the disease, which seemed to threaten the country with destruction.
We held a consultation upon the subject, to devise some means, which should render him incapable of carrying his good intentions towards us into effect.
I therefore, endeavoured to devise some way of availing myself of my momentary freedom, to place myself beyond the possibility of losing it again.
Herminie was trying to devise some means of satisfying this coarse and insolent man, but, having already, pawned her silver and her watch, she had nothing more to pawn.
I have--I have a favour to ask of you," replied Madame de Beaumesnil, who was racking her brain to devise some way of bringing her daughter closer to her.
But though I am not the great necromancer you say, I shall have to devise some way of taming this two-headed monster, I suppose.
Sinking upon the couch that had been arranged for me by unknown hands, I endeavoured to devise somemeans of extricating myself.
For first of all, He knows of this amour; and watches me With jealous eyes, lest I devise some trick To break the match.
While trying to devise some means of getting to him, the old woman remembered her sister's visiting card, and the man made some excuse to borrow it.
Alone in his garret, after a day of unremitting toil, assailed by the thousand longings of youth, Lecoq endeavored to devise some means of suddenly making himself rich.
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