contriver

I hope you deserve me, my lord: so good faithful a wife, and a so quick contriver of means.

She asks: "Why, Contriver of the universe, do you so squander your treasure?

Whether the contriver or not of this spell, he was able to unbind it, and to check the fury of my brother.

"You know," Lincoln once told a group of quarrelsome Pennsylvania Republicans, "I never was a contriver.

There is another deity who is described as the calumniator of the gods and the contriver of all fraud and mischief.

His power of descriptive writing, especially of describing violent action, is also very striking, and on a serial-story level he is a wonderful contriver of plots.

John Evelyn, a fellow member of the Royal Society, found Povey "a nice contriver of all elegancies and exceedingly formal".

Maerio, sitting next to Efraim, told him: "This is Berhalten, the Master Contriver; do you know of him?"

First there was annoyance: his successor - and, he was sure, principal contriver of his downfall - had never once attempted to contact him since his departure from Washington.

In his false description of Orlando, he presents an accurate picture of himself: He says that Orlando is "a secret and villainous contriver against... his natural brother."

At Wentworth Castle it was generally understood, as Lord Verulam remarked in 1768, "'Lord Strafford himself is his own architect and contriver in everything."

The infinite wise Contriver of us, and all things about us, hath fitted our senses, faculties, and organs, to the conveniences of life, and the business we have to do here.

I'll tell thee, Charles, it is the stubbornest young fellow of France; full of ambition, an envious emulator of every man's good parts, a secret and villainous contriver against me his natural brother.

Consider, anatomise the eye; survey its structure and contrivance; and tell me, from your own feeling, if the idea of a contriver does not immediately flow in upon you with a force like that of sensation.

According to Wood he was conveyed from Flanders to Rome, where, by command of the pope, he was, as a contriver of new doctrine, thrust into a dungeon of the Inquisition.

We shall find of him A shrewd contriver; and you know his means, If he improve them, may well stretch so far As to annoy us all, which to prevent, Let Antony and Caesar fall together.

Another, stylistically dated to the 2nd century AD, is inscribed on a Roman phalera: "inventori lucis soli invicto augusto" (to the contriver of light, sol invictus augustus ).

He denied having been the contriver of the petition, but on account of his 'obstinate and indecent manner of defending it' was regarded as having been more deep in the offence than he who first wrote it.

Some years afterward, however, when court and country were filled with rumours of plots, Claypole was fixed upon to be the head and contriver of one against the royal family, supposedly in consort with the old Oliverian party.

After the murder of David Riccio, the Papal Nuncio advised the removal of six men from court to restore peace, including Bellenden and MacGill, described as 'a man of no family and contriver of all evil.'

How did you dare To trade and traffic with Macbeth In riddles and affairs of death, And I, the mistress of your charms, The close contriver of all harms, Was never call'd to bear my part, Or show the glory of our art?

Had my mind been simply occupied with this thought at present, no doubt, the same impulse would have been experienced; but now it was my brother whom I was irresistably persuaded to regard as the contriver of that ill of which I had been forewarned.

Nevertheless, the form's structure has been criticised; Paul Fussell considers the sestina to be of "dubious structural expresiveness" when composed in English and, irrespective of how it is used, "would seem to be [a form] that gives more structural pleasure to the contriver than to the apprehender."