He was still cleverly and ingeniously endeavouring to lead me into a false sense of security--to make me believe that he was innocent of all knowledge of that most astounding tragedy in Sussex Place.
Within myself I resolved to put some guarded questions and ascertain, if possible, what Ethelwynn's lover knew of this man who had so ingeniously drawn me into that maelstrom of doubt and grim tragedy.
Surely in all the annals of crime there had never been one so surrounded by complex circumstances as the tragedy of Sussex Place, and assuredly, too, no innocent man had been more ingeniously misled than my unfortunate self.
Was it not a very curious feature of the affair, I reflected, that Ethelwynn had ingeniously approached me, offering me news of Mabel in return for my undertaking to make no further inquiry into her father's secret death?
Kirk, clever, crafty, and far-seeing, had mostingeniously sealed my lips.
And as at a banquet good manners would not allow him to win a victory either over his host or any of the guests, the superiority which he gains over Agathon is ingeniously represented as having been already gained over himself by her.
The extraordinary narrative of Alcibiades is ingeniously represented as admitted by Socrates, whose silence when he is invited to contradict gives consent to the narrator.
Here the insurgents, led by Dumont, were concealed in rifle-pits, ingeniously constructed and placed in a deep ravine.
Other secret drawers are so ingeniously contrived that they can only be discovered on pulling out the visible drawers and the dividing pieces on which the drawers run.
The visible drawers are of oak throughout, whilst the hidden ones are oak-bodied with red deal fronts to match the lining of the main structure--thus ingeniously disguising their presence.
The hotel was decorated with flags and floral emblems, one of which expressed, in its ingeniously constructed words, wrought in flowers, "One hundred thousand Welcomes.
He is a self-taught astronomer, and used an ingeniously constructed telescope of his own manufacture for studying the heavens.
At this stage the blood is most ingeniously changed into a supply of milk, not diffused all over the body, but externally in the breasts, so that the babe can with its mouth imbibe the gentle and soothing nutriment.
So Haupt and Herscher very ingeniouslyfor [Greek: hiereusin].
And indeed the whole of that speech On the Crown most ingeniously introduces his own praises in his antitheses, and answers to the charges brought against him.
It was veryingeniously arranged, only the discovery was made too soon.
My dear, it would be something awful even if he had done his duty and halved it between Elvira and me, and he has ingeniously tied it up with trustees so as to make restitution impossible.
The hotel was decorated with flags and floral emblems, one of which expressed, in its ingeniously constructed words, wrought in flowers, "One hundred thousand Welcomes.
The phrase omoi no hoka, in the fourth line, means "contrary to expectation;" but it is ingeniously made to suggest also the idea of secret longing.
The deceitful bird merchant had ingeniouslypainted him from the crown of his head to the very tip of his tail feathers!
This they ingeniously did without any danger to themselves, by setting the woodwork on fire and letting the supporting beams slowly burn away!
That which must be done must also be stoutly and ingeniously declared to be legal.
The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly.
House-maid, a youngerly person of the opposing sex employed to be variously disagreeable and ingeniously unclean in the station in which it has pleased God to place her.
That's not the obvious, Christabel; that's only an ingeniouslywrong one.
I should like to hear you making a number of ingeniously wrong guesses.
The design is elaborate but well and ingeniously executed; in the opinion of Frith, the painter, it showed "the true feeling of an artist.
Did he most ingeniously recast every detail of an elder keep, or did he choose to build exactly according to the type of an age long before his own?
Of these, Carentan has considerable Romanesque portions, the arches of the central lantern and the pillars of the nave which have been ingeniously lengthened and made to bear pointed arches.
We say untouched, because it is so practically, though a good deal of the vaulting was most ingeniously repaired after the English wars, just as Saint Stephen at Caen was after the Huguenot wars.
He holds in his hand a book, which the Cavaliere de Rossi very wisely and ingeniously interprets to be the writings of the evangelical prophet Isaiah, whose prophecies concerning the Messiah had now their fulfilment in the Infant Jesus.
With infinite licence they ingeniously quote therefrom, and still more ingeniously add their own explanations when necessary.
This is rudely, but ingeniously made, by straining a piece of raw hide over a hoop or over the head of a sort of keg, generally made by excavating the inner part of a log of wood, leaving a thin rim around its side.
The story is ingeniously told, and cleverly constructed.
He had ingeniously adopted the name of Anthony, as resembling in sound the one she herself had given him in her letters.