Both Uses of
contrived
in
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Why, I spotted you for a boy when you was threading the needle; and I contrived the other things just to make certain.
Chpt 11 *contrived = made up (arranged)
- Anyhow, there's one thing—there's more honor in getting him out through a lot of difficulties and dangers, where there warn't one of them furnished to you by the people who it was their duty to furnish them, and you had to contrive them all out of your own head.
Chpt 35contrive = arrange
Definition:
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(contrived) unnatural seeming (due to careful planning)
or more rarely:
arranged (that something should happen)