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  • Contrive persons where none have come into being, reject the persons who are present.

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • Contrive persons where none have come into being, reject the persons who are present.

    George Tiller 2009

  • Contrive as many interruptions to your work as you can...

    Archive 2008-06-15 2008

  • Contrive as many interruptions to your work as you can...

    B2fxxx 2008

  • Now the tray-maker was fair of face and comely of form, and the wife of the master of the house saw him and fell in love with him and her heart inclined to him with exceeding inclination; so, her husband being absent, she called her handmaid and said to her, “Contrive to bring yonder man to us.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • 'Contrive to hate you!' repeated Macdersey; 'I could as soon contrive to turn the world into a potato; there is nothing upon earth, nothing under the whole firmament I value but beauty!'

    Camilla 2008

  • Salih replied, Contrive how thou mayst speedily acquit thyself, else thou art a dead man; for I cannot grant thee an eye-twinkling of delay after the time appointed me by the Caliph; nor can I fail of aught which the Prince of True Believers hath enjoined on me.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Contrive to be in the garden, in disguise, if possible, and unseen by your young lady.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Contrive to smear him though Catulus did, people listened to Catulus less and less because they liked what Caesar had to say, not to mention how he said it.

    Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

  • Contrive to resist the selfevident inferences about authorship and date.

    'Edmund Ironside' Sams, Eric 1987

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