Certainly she would not consider the concocting of a new fragrance to be such.

He gave a boost to the man's pleasure centers, allowing him to drift away in dreams of his own concocting.

Moreover, it annoyed him that Mary had shown not the slightest sagacity in the concocting of the story she told.

(2) Staff and gourd: transmutation and the concocting of medicines.

In Mexico, torture and the concocting of confessions have long been a crude but effective tactic for an untrained and overwhelmed police force.

It's true that Mr. Meredith Blake was given to recommending quack nostrums of his own concocting, but I don't see Mr.Crale trying any of them.

Presently, because his brother's yelling, his concocting of desperate, half-witted schemes, was only confusing him now, and nothing was getting done, Talgai waved once more and hurried off to think, out of sight of the prisoner's window.

Along with stories about the quilts, the quilt-makers and the collectors, you'll find a recipe on the concocting of koele palau - a sweet potato wine everyone drank for a week in celebration of a completed puiki, or quilt.

He summed up his approach in his foreword to the anthology Ghosts and Marvels (Oxford, 1924): "Two ingredients most valuable in the concocting of a ghost story are, to me, the atmosphere and the nicely managed crescendo.

But after the deceptions of Mr. Blair were brought to light, including the plagiarizing of articles from other newspapers and news agencies and the concocting of quotations, long-simmering complaints about the management style of the editors rose to the surface.

Having convinced the German people (and of this the writer can testify from personal observation) that the Poles had rejected the Fuehrer's generous peace offer, there remained only the concocting of a deed which would "prove" that not Germany but Poland had attacked first.

Events include ski races that are open to any who care to enter, a bartenders' Banana Brawl, in which local bartenders compete in the concocting of exotic banana drinks, a Gilligan's Island beach party featuring a Minnow crew look-alike contest and a Gilligan's Island theme song singing competition.

What they may not be able to do is to concoct a good story to go with them.

I would concoct a story, make up all of the parts.

Tell him what has happened, and then concoct a good story to cover us.

But on the way home he concocted the big lie.

And what a role he has concocted for his star, who just happens to be himself.

Was that a real place, or something she had concocted in her dream?

That's why you're so willing to go along with the case the police have concocted.

So they concocted a whole story to go along with the discovery.

They had probably concocted the scheme of her coming here together.

He has even concocted a digital photograph to show us what it would look like.

Though he'd known one or two in his time who were certainly willing to concoct it.

She and Jane had concocted this plan the day before.

Who would even have the knowledge to concoct such a sick game?

But this looks like something concocted by someone's struggling high school art student.

There are 256 rules you can concoct to play this simple game.

"I told him everything and between us we concocted a plan.

In fact, someone should write an article on the drugs they've concocted.

He's going to be able to concoct an explanation that will hold up.

"I want to let people see that the characters they love are not just concocted," he said.

The suit says the events in the article were concocted.

He'd concoct a way to rescue his baby daughter then.

He then concocted this dressing, which, like the play, became a hit.

What plan is she concocting to spice up her life?

We concoct a story and then let it leak out.

His real reason for being there was odd enough without having to concoct others.