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• He is now very jolly and ingenious, and hath a good constitution for wit Those who are thus adorned with the gifts of nature, are apt to show their parts with too much ostentation. —  The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II
• But this (begging the learned critic's pardon) is quite a different thing 346] See the very learned, ingenious, and satisfactory disquisition in The Revision Revised, pp. 424-501 347] The numbers are B, substitutions, 935; modifications, 1,132; total, 2,067 Symbol: Aleph], " 1,114; " 1,265; " 2,379 D, " 2,121; " 1,772; " 3,893 Revision Revised, pp. 12, 13 348] B has 536 words added in the Gospels: [Symbol: Aleph], 839: D, 2,213. —  The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels
• '[290] Mr. Gladstone had made many speeches that were in a high degree interesting, ingenious, attractive, forcible. —  The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859
• My very desperation made me ingenious, and it was not till I had been away a month with my ill-gotten booty that the frauds were discovered Again he stopped, and I waited with strangely perturbed feelings till he resumed At first I tried to hide myself, and spent some weeks abroad. —  My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life
• Nancy Drew, ingenious, alert, is the daughter of a famous criminal lawyer and she herself is deeply interested in his mystery cases. —  The Corner House Girls at School

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