Franklyn's men have devised a new way of war.

"There's no way two men on opposite sides of California would have independently devised the same method."

The young man liked the advice and, from those two words, devised his last name.

The one man on this coast who is up to any trick Nathanson can devise.

The two men have devised a plan to trick the noses of guests.

Can the common man, or the uncommon men who are allied with him, devise such a law?

I rather put my faith, that can scarce move mountains, in some subtle means, if any man might devise them.

I knew the man who designed this hell cage that keeps me alive could devise anything.

She noticed also that each man devised for himself some work space on which he could spread out his papers, or make his tools.

He said, for instance that when the temperature becomes too hot, a man devises a means of keeping himself cool.