Cadwallader have been at all busy about Miss Brooke's marriage; and why, when one match that she liked to think she had a hand in was frustrated, should she have straightway contrived the preliminaries of another?
It was wonderful what a variety of exits from her corner Scrap contrived for Mr.
But when Anne had gone Diana dried her tears and went to a beach picnic at White Sands with some of her Carmody cousins, where she contrived to enjoy herself tolerably well; while Marilla plunged fiercely into unnecessary work and kept at it all day long with the bitterest kind of heartache—the ache that burns and gnaws and cannot wash itself away in ready tears.
" Anne started off irreproachable, arrayed in the stiff black-and-white sateen, which, while decent as regards length and certainly not open to the charge of skimpiness, contrived to emphasize every corner and angle of her thin figure.
Stalling had contrived to ask his question in about the most idiotic manner possible.
He had also contrived to catch a few bats, and these, also, he had eaten, leaving only their claws.
Tom contrived to scarify the cupboard with it, and was arranging to begin on the bureau, when he was called off to dress for Sunday-school.
It would be the moral lesson they have been in need of ever since we met them; but if we contrived things in this way Mrs.
Tea Nineteenth-century Britain somehow contrived to make a national drink of a shrub produced on the other side of the world.
For this purpose I therefore contrived the following method.
The two youngest of the family, Catherine and Lydia, were particularly frequent in these attentions; their minds were more vacant than their sisters', and when nothing better offered, a walk to Meryton was necessary to amuse their morning hours and furnish conversation for the evening; and however bare of news the country in general might be, they always contrived to learn some from their aunt.
This is a great method for learning what you need to cover, but don't try to memorize and recite it word for word — your delivery shouldn't feel contrived.
Of course, stuff happens and unrelenting optimism can sometimes be contrived and irresponsible.
" The squire raised his gun, the rowing ceased, and we leaned over to the other side to keep the balance, and all was so nicely contrived that we did not ship a drop.
He complained to his wife Abigail, "My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
Dog though I was, I saw through her design, and stung into presence of mind by the greatness of the danger, I timed my movements so well that I contrived to rush through, and only the tip of my tail received a squeeze as she banged the gate.
Next the Countryman commenced, and pretending that he concealed a little pig beneath his clothes (which in truth he did), contrived to lay hold of and to pull his ear, when he began to squeak.
On his assuring him that he would not injure him, the Fox led the Ass to a deep pit, and contrived that he should fall into it.
How hast thou contrived to do that?
Now, the old woman had, through her sorceries, contrived that the eyes of the huntsman should become heavy.
