ingenuity

• We should have found some exercise for our ingenuity, and some object about which to interest ourselves, in plans and stratagems for eking out our short allowance by the aid of theft. —  The White Slave or Memoirs of a Fugitive
• The boy for his ingenuity was afterwards employed withinside the mill Union Mill. —  A Description of Modern Birmingham Whereunto Are Annexed Observations Made during an Excursion Round the Town, in the Summer of 1818, Including Warwick and Leamington
• But what seems to have exercised most of his ingenuity was the famous —  Guide to Stoicism
• The boy for his ingenuity was afterwards employed withinside the mill. —  A Description of Modern Birmingham Whereunto Are Annexed Observations Made during an Excursion Round the Town, in the Summer of 1818, Including Warwick and Leamington
• Marie had grown apt at gathering together these cobweb strands, and disentangling them, but now even her ingenuity was at fault, and the number was the only point which stood out clearly from wavering words about a man and a box. —  Tales from Many Sources Vol. V

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