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1. “This is an impressive and at the same time pleasantly inviting gateway you have contrived for your entrance,” remarked Mandy candidly
2. Four girls and two boys proudly walked to the front of the contrived stage in the Council Chambers, converted to a makeshift auditorium for the event
3. Marguerite Beauchamp – that the Lord had contrived
4. Alan split the roll with her and then went back down to his knitting machine project and Desa went back to trying to re-write the lyrics for part four of VallosHallow so the rhyme wouldn't sound so contrived
5. ‘The Lord seems to have contrived to place them in
6. It was a capital which those projectors had very artfully contrived to draw from those banks, not only without their knowledge or deliberate consent, but for some time, perhaps, without their having the most distant suspicion that they had really advanced it
7. Of all the expedients that can well be contrived to stunt the natural growth of a new colony, that of an exclusive company is undoubtedly the most effectual
8. Monty had spent his whole career balancing up his brilliant insight with contrived dumbness
9. In order to increase their payment, the attorneys and clerks have contrived to multiply words beyond all necessity, to the corruption of the law language of, I believe, every court of justice in Europe
10. But whether the administration of justice be so contrived as to defray its own expense, or whether the judges be maintained by fixed salaries paid to them from some other fund, it does not seen necessary that the person or persons entrusted with the executive power should be charged with the management of that fund, or with the payment of those salaries
11. The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or, more properly speaking, for the ease of the masters
12. Every tax ought to be so contrived, as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state
13. contrived applications may tickle our ears but they will
14. By means of it, pieces are issued from the mint, of the same denomination, and, as nearly as could be contrived, of the same weight, bulk, and appearance, with pieces which had been current before of much greater value
15. these artificially contrived results should be considered statistically flawed as well
16. In another manner, consistent with their socialistic agenda, America‘s growing entitlement mentality impressed by soaring economic expectations (Material Status) and artificially contrived victimhood (Historical ―Grievances‖) provided further ―cause‖ for government spending that ultimately achieved a remarkably high social rate of return on its ―investment‖
17. He had been found barricaded in his residence and, when they approached, attempted escape on horseback but, as the valley he fled into was surrounded by jungle with the highway its only outlet, it was poorly contrived
18. With this, Colling knew that continuing to rely on their contrived identities was not going to work, and his mind darted about, trying to decide what to do
19. I always thought that such approaches, lumping alien spaceship landings in with that, were too contrived
20. Bob started talking again with his contrived happy shell, I could hear it through the phone, “You don’t have to come meet me at the hospital
21. She cleared her throat and speciously threw on a more permanently contrived smile to counteract her teary eyed face, “Hi Bob” she said
22. ” I wish you could have heard the voice he used when he had said it; he used this very contrived playful tough guy voice while he powerfully slammed his hands together and making his mouth huge, “Anybody … we’ll mess anybody up
23. Presumably, the library of experience was unveiled more or less at once, instead of the orderly retrieval that accompanied rational thought or the magical selection that contrived the imagination
24. Yet she had certainly contrived to do a little mischief with the best of intentions
25. Meredith returned home the next afternoon, but before his coming Faith contrived to scandalize Glen St
26. Without mentioning money, they contrived to instil into Mr
27. One of our members, who ironically now holds an important position on the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, has contrived to send a kidney to himself in the post, to add to the speculation about the killer
28. changing at their pity, they led him to the fire: 25 then with their wickedly contrived instruments they burnt him on the fire, and
29. The material and ramifications of this section have been very deep, and I have contrived
30. ” This matter of fact approach was due to a faith in the unseen and the laws of nature that were not contrived by man
31. ” Lifting her eyes to Rachel’s face, Jesse was prepared for the smug smile but not the mimed kiss or the contrived sympathy when she said, “Poor, Jesse
32. They will use any given (or contrived) crisis as a reason to transfer power to the central government
33. thought about how my doing so could be contrived as stirring shit
34. 23 you spear bearers of the tyrant why do you linger? 24 Beholding him so high-minded against misery and not changing at their pity they led him to the fire: 25 then with their wickedly contrived instruments they burnt him on the fire and poured stinking fluids down into his nostrils
35. When you saw a thief you went to be with him and have cast in your portion with the adulterers; Your mouth has abounded with evil and your tongue has contrived deceit
36. similar way, all other institutions were contrived: the idea of contracts was invented, as was that of
37. contrived rather than naturally occurring
38. thousand times before, but the contrived deceit, planned out in her
39. contrived smile, wondering how many other ladies he'd held on this
40. You think this is all contrived but it
41. As it was, they contrived to enjoy much of the experience of farm life as they now had three cows, four sheep, a flock of chickens, a donkey, and a dog, in addition to the doves
42. In the meantime, he contrived the material transfer between Ocean and Atlantic ‘on paper’ backed by dubious C
43. He theorized that the corrupt, by waylaying the children of the poor at school, contrived to nip in the bud the challenge of the have-nots
44. The Museum of Hoaxes: A Collection of Pranks, Stunts, Deceptions, and Other Wonderful Stories Contrived for the Public from the Middle Ages to the New Millennium, E
45. In this time period, white false teachers contrived and passed on to black theologians untrue doctrine
46. brainstorm contrived by misguided mystics
47. contrived many years after the event and they also
48. Lord Ashburn bit his lip, realizing the plot Underwood had contrived
49. How contrived and sappy
50. clubs, the combination seemed contrived and awkward
