It has already been shown that our little hunter possessed a natural ingenuity of mind.
As he grew older his natural ingenuity seemed to become increasingly active, until his thirst for improving on mechanical contrivances and devising something new became almost a passion.
Yes, I have--everything that my human ingenuity can suggest.
Now, I want you to set youringenuity at work, and gain admittance if possible, for I am determined to have an account of this ball written in such a way that everyone who reads it will know that the writer was present.
I'll confess that you've shown the most wonderful ingenuity in trying to get me into a position where I should be obliged to marry you, whether I would or not; and now you've succeeded.
For her the matter was so grave that he exhausted his ingenuity in devising means for her protection.
St. Stephen's Walbrook is, next after the cathedral, a work of muchingenuity and merit.
A larger number yet arrived during the reign of Queen Elizabeth; and so great was the industry and ingenuity of the people, that their manufactures soon became famed throughout the world.
The remark is frequently made that were rogues to spend half as much time and ingenuity in gaining an honest living, as they do, in seeking to impose upon their fellow-men, their efforts would often be crowned with abundant success.
In these cases who can withhold his admiration of the ingenuity and judgment of the bees?
All that sailor ingenuity could plan was now done to make life healthy and comfortable in their ark of safety.
The lack of material and the ingenuity of the Inuits in wresting a bare subsistence from this forlorn country was indicated by a most efficient fox-trap made entirely of ice.
Men offered themselves willingly to every torture which Eastern ingenuity could devise, or reckless disregard of human life put into execution.
All we know of him is derived from the account left us by Theodoret, bishop of Cyrus, who calls him the admirable Baradatus, and says that he manifested his ingenuity in discovering new austerities.
To teach him these things required patience principally; but I found that to teach him some things taxed myingenuity as well.
The pasture had been the best which the ingenuityof man had found for the maintenance of sheep.
It has been prepared by the ingenuity of men, able to dominate matter though altogether powerless over mind.
It is amusing to think how much conservative ingenuity has been wasted in the defence of the House of Lords by men who were desperately endeavouring to prove that the House of Lords consisted of clever men.
This is a secondary matter, but it is an example of the general proposition I offer--the proposition that an enormous amount of modern ingenuity is expended on finding defences for the indefensible conduct of the powerful.
Yet he is called Upendra, which, whatever other explanations sectarian ingenuity may invent, can hardly mean anything but the Lesser Indra, and he fills the humble post of Arjuna's charioteer.
This phase took some of the worst features in Hinduism, such as spells, charms, and the worship of goddesses, and with misplaced ingenuity fitted them into Buddhism.
During this unexpected interlude, the principal feature of the pageant, and one which had tasked to the utmost the ingenuity of its contrivers, now entered the hall.
This space had been filled with diabolical ingenuity with a barrel full of combustibles, so that every one who tried to escape by the only opening below would be sure to perish.
I had truly some papers about me which I did not care to have examined, but these were in my cravat, and even Russian ingenuity had not at that time got beyond picking pockets and feeling the linings of coats.
It would tax any one's ingenuity to name an action that lies outside the scope of these influences.
And they set themselves with the greatest ingenuity to unravel the secret of their complicated and seemingly capricious movements.
Here he soon distinguished himself by his originality of thought, and the ingenuity and decisiveness of his experiments.
The situation is one of the strongest that dramatic ingenuity has invented: the actress invested it with a colouring of pathetic and awful truth.
This demand has been most efficiently supplied by the ingenuity of scientists and instrument makers.
This is a good illustration of and speaks well for the economy and the ingenuity of the ancients.
The human interest--because of the amazing mentality and the culinaryingenuity of the ancients revealed to us from an altogether new angle.
This is another good example of Roman cookery, far from being extravagant as it is reputed to be, it is economical and clever, and shows ingenuity in the utilization of good things which are often discarded as worthless.
They are so scarce comparatively because they require all the ingenuity and resourcefulness of a gifted cook to be perfect.
In the former he attempted to illustrate character by the handwriting; and in the latter he maintained that human ingenuity cannot invent a cipher that human ingenuity cannot resolve.
There is no common ingenuity in this, but malicious spite against God and holiness (of which more in the next chapter).
