Snake is the emblem of male wisdom united with female subtilty--and the two essences, mingled in one, make as near an approach to what we may imagine the positive Divine capacity as can be devised on earth by earthly intelligences.
Poisoned by some deadly potion devised of devils, to twist and torture the quivering centres of the brain!
As I live, 'twas not ill-devised for a madman's brain!
Side-note: Scheme of government devised by Cyrus when his conquests are completed--Oriental despotism, wisely arranged.
Kallimachus or Aristophanes devised an order of arrangement for themselves, such as they thought suitable.
The instruments devised for the purpose of ascertaining the humidity of the atmosphere are termed hygrometers.
Thomson, of Glasgow, has devised an atmospheric electrometer, which is likely to become eminently successful, in the hands of skilful observers.
The first barometers on this principle were devisedby the celebrated philosopher, Dr.
This additional something, again, in order to fulfill its purpose, must be so devised as not to appear an addition: it must seem even more truly the man than the man himself.
His enemies, smitten with terror by the memory of his prowess, dared not advance, till one cunning warrior devised a strategem which startled the horse out of its marble stillness.
Edison devised lamps in which a platinum wire was employed as the light-giving agent, carbon being made to adhere round it by pressure.
Fresnel devised these prisms for use in fixed light apparatus, but the principle was, at a later date, also applied to flashing lights, in the first instance by T.
It was not until 1868 that a burner was devised which successfully consumed hydrocarbon oils.
The contraction in the diameter of the glass chimney used with wick lamps is due to Lange, and the principle of the multiple wick burner was devised by Count Rumford.
Self-acting regulators have been devised by which the voltage at the points of consumption is kept constant, even although it varies at the point of generation.
One early devised form of arc-lamp mechanism was a system of clockwork driven by a spring or weight, which was started and stopped by the action of an electromagnet; in modern lighthouse lamps a similar mechanism is still employed.
Mahan, late engineer secretary to the United States Lighthouse Board, devised for that service a system of flashing lights to indicate certain numbers.
Duboscq (1858), and a host of later inventors, devised numerous forms of mechanical and clockwork lamps.
Mr Arthur Wright has devised a tariff which gives effect to this principle.
Before his death in 1827 Fresnel devised his totally reflecting or catadioptric prisms to take the place of the silvered reflectors previously used above and below the lens elements (fig.
Nevertheless, State schools and colleges are so neglected that laws are being devised to compel parents to send their children to them.
Every one knows that the godless scholastic institutions devised by Paul Bert, Ferry, and Jules Simon are repugnant to the nation, and have been a complete failure.
Nevertheless, State colleges and primary schools are so neglected that laws are being devised to compel parents to send their children to them.
Later Volta devised his "crown of cups," a form of wet battery similar to some batteries in use to-day.
The Morse alphabet now in use was devised by a Mr. Vail, who assisted Morse in developing the telegraph.
Other methods of communicating at a distance weredevised from time to time, but the distance was only that at which a signal could be seen or a sound heard.
After many experiments he devised a "safe lamp," which was a common miner's lamp enclosed in a wire gauze.
It is the way of progress, the path to perfection, and as such was devised by the wisdom of the Gods, before this world rolled into existence.
A supposed adherent of hers, a Jesuit, devisedmeans of communicating with her and of passing her secret correspondence in and out of Chartley Manor.
He devised ingenious expedients; he tried to make his case as safe as possible; he gave nothing away to the other side; but he was reluctant throughout, while the king was invincibly obstinate.
This was the root-principle of the Tudor Absolutism, devised and put into practice by the first Tudor king, and systematically carried out by his son and grand-daughter.
The breach with Rome in all its completeness was devised and carried out without aid from him, unless the suggestion of taking the opinion of the Universities on the divorce is to be counted as aid.
While working at the best arrangements for delivery at Calcutta Mr. Owens, late Presidency Postmaster, devised the system of what is known for want of a better name as "continuous delivery.
To meet this difficulty a special form of money order was devisedand the co-operation of District Collectors was invited.
In the first part of this passage the language is the simple natural expression of prose, yet so devised that it also fits the metrical pattern.
It seemed to me that since he had become aware of what I knew concerning his treachery he had devisedsome new plan, and kept his old tone to hinder me from suspecting it.
But it was not for the human mind to limit infinite mercy and wisdom, and possibly in His secret councils God had devised a way of salvation even for so desperate a case.
No other penalty could have beendevised at once so crushing to the victim, and so fully commending itself to the popular sense of justice.
But it won't be long, I am sure, until we have devised some means of rescuing you.
It grips the attention in the first paragraph, and whirls one irresistibly along through all the stirring incidents of its skillfully devised plot, giving one not an instant's rest until the splendid dramatic climax gives sudden relief.
My wife no sooner heard of it than her active brain devised fifty plans for making it of use.
I felt quite at loss how to guard the farm for the future; but seeing a bottle of the poisonous gum of the euphorbia in the tool chest, I devised a plan for the destruction of the apes which succeeded beyond my expectations.
The following day they devised no less a scheme than to survey the shores of Wood Lake, and place marks wherever the surrounding marsh was practicable, and might be crossed either to reach the water or leave it.
Jack's clever little head, however, suddenly devised a plan for their aid, and with his usual promptitude, he at once put it into execution.
He took no notice of the monkey, but it was very uneasy at sight of him, and scrambled down into Fritz's arms, which was so inconvenient to him that he devised a plan to relieve himself of his burden.
Long before any other method of holding ideas and delivering them to others was devised or imagined, speech came.
In the French Republican calendar, devised by the astronomer Romme, in 1792, Brumaire began on the twenty-second day of October and ended on the twentieth day of November.
Pelle and Stolpe, who had devised the programme, went along the ranks setting all to rights.
And now the whole thing was just a spitefully devised torture!
The clock would be so devised that it would show the time only when every one in the land had what he wanted.
She is to keep off Thoas by a cunningly devised tale, while her brother and Pylades contrive their escape.
The efficient kitchen devised in such an interesting and clever way has no place in it.
It is certain that some compensation is due to all domestic employees for the extra long hours of work caused by unusual events in the home life of their employers, and many ways have been devised already to remunerate them.
The arrangement of this little work has been such as the author and his friends have considered the best that could be devised for the purpose of facilitating the progress of the student.
Experience has taught us that this method is the most efficient that could have been devised as an initiatory exercise for the student, ere he commences a more concise and methodical method of analysis.
