" The eloquent auctioneer smiled at his own ingenuity.
Van Busche Taylor avoided all subjects that might have been in the least embarrassing, and at the ingenuity with which Mrs.
It is hazardous to play poker with them, but their ingenuity adds a peculiar excitement to the best game in the world.
The ground-corn dough is deceptively simple; made from just a few ingredients, it's nonetheless a triumph of culinary ingenuity.
" I supposed that for some reason or other—and Heaven knows what ingenuity men exercise to torment themselves—Dirk had got it into his head that his wife cared for Strickland, and with his genius for blundering he might quite well have offended her so that, to anger him, perhaps, she had taken pains to foster his suspicion.
When at last we were all assembled, waiting for dinner to be announced, I reflected, while I chatted with the woman I had been asked to "take in," that civilised man practises a strange ingenuity in wasting on tedious exercises the brief span of his life.
To Catherine's simple feelings, this odd sort of reserve seemed neither kindly meant, nor consistently supported; and its unkindness she would hardly have forborne pointing out, had its inconsistency been less their friend; but Anne and Maria soon set her heart at ease by the sagacity of their "I know what"; and the evening was spent in a sort of war of wit, a display of family ingenuity, on one side in the mystery of an affected secret, on the other of undefined discovery, all equally acute.
Still they moved on—something better was yet in view; and by a continued exertion of strength and ingenuity they found themselves at last in the passage behind the highest bench.
And now the tiresome chirping of a cricket that no human ingenuity could locate, began.
"It's a great story of human ingenuity, but we need to question and get evidence for everything that supports stances we hold dear to our heart, especially in these dark days.
Proponents however say any responsible tour is carried out by proud residents who show that their home is more than a slum and promote the enterprise and ingenuity within them.
Nobel laureates sometimes display as much ingenuity when deciding how to spend their prize money as they did on the work that won them the award in the first place.
,,、、 You'll need the creativity and ingenuity you develop in all your classes to build new companies that will create new jobs and boost our economy.
With his shaggy hair and droopy moustache that did not hide the animation in his face, Atkinson had some of Woz's ingenuity along with Jobs's passion for awesome products.
《3:》(War for the Planet of the Apes) Never has human extinction seemed so richly merited, and rarely has digital ingenuity been put to such sublime use.
Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
: Ingenuity Lab, Edmonton "" Ingenuity Lab director Carlo Montemagno has engineered a new way to capture CO2 from industrial-gas emissions.
To mark this momentous occasion of human ingenuity, the company released a three-minute video that resembles a trailer for an action movie.
Watson's success was a victory for engineering ingenuity.
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