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After about half an hour's excogitation, a brilliant idea at last flashed across him; he had found in a tobacconist's window something to write about!— Philistia
Before the excogitation of this splendid resolve, he had been observed to wear for some period a conspiratorial aspect.— Sandra Belloni — Volume 3
He had half a mind to remain at home to conquer them by excogitation.— Beauchamp's Career — Volume 1
The comic of Jonson is a scholar's excogitation of the comic; that of Massinger a moralist's.— Complete Short Works of George Meredith
Let it also be noted that this longitude reward was not a premium upon excogitation of a mysterious difficulty.— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)

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