Contrivance

It is brought from a Central Depot in a Mechanical Contrivance which is run underground, thence up into the Dining room.

The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants, a psychic revelation J. L. Kennon

Paley's favourite word is "Contrivance"; and for him contrivance is most certain where production is most obscure.

Evolution in Modern Thought Gustav Schwalbe 1880

And he had been forced to install cantilevers to support the madly gyrating Bust Array and Hip Contrivance.

Things People Like to Write About; Or, This Week is Already Off to a Bad Start 2009

But then, imagine my Chagrin to discover that the one selling the most copies at that moment was not my own, but a Contrivance of my book filled with . . . zombies.

BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » Dear Cassandra 2010

Contrivance can have a long arm too; eventually this one breaks.

' Joe Morgenstern 2010

Of course, up until fairly recently about 2:47 PM yesterday it was thought that the earliest recorded Contrivance in this country was the famous water-wheel driven vole featured in the bottom left corner of the Bayeux Tapestry, just to the right of the entrails from the partially disembowelled Saxon lying nearby.

Archive 2009-05-01 David Hadley 2009

Of course, up until fairly recently about 2:47 PM yesterday it was thought that the earliest recorded Contrivance in this country was the famous water-wheel driven vole featured in the bottom left corner of the Bayeux Tapestry, just to the right of the entrails from the partially disembowelled Saxon lying nearby.

The Contrivances - A History (Part One) David Hadley 2009

Contrivance and coincidence conspire to tell you what to feel and when.

Post #40: In which Drew fixes everything wrong with ‘Slumdog’ « The Retort 2009

Not only will you have a fun summer gig, but you'll be participating in a venerable Rickety Contrivance of Doing Good!

Fresh Air Fund Susan Palwick 2009

And, indeed, Valerius was now become such to me, this Contrivance having raz'd out all those Characters of Friendship and fraternal Love, which his virtuous and generous Behaviour had engraven in my Heart before; and I now detested and abhorr'd him as the worst of Criminals.

Exilius 2008