All 8 Uses of
contrived
in
Jane Eyre
- Fearful, however, of losing this first and only opportunity of relieving my grief by imparting it, I, after a disturbed pause, contrived to frame a meagre, though, as far as it went, true response.†
Chpt 3
- To this crib I always took my doll; human beings must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objects of affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing a faded graven image, shabby as a miniature scarecrow.†
Chpt 4
- I generally contrived to reserve a moiety of this bounteous repast for myself; but the remainder I was invariably obliged to part with.†
Chpt 7 *
- Only master had been reading in his bed last night; he fell asleep with his candle lit, and the curtains got on fire; but, fortunately, he awoke before the bed-clothes or the wood-work caught, and contrived to quench the flames with the water in the ewer.†
Chpt 16
- And so, by dint of alternate coaxing and commanding, he contrived to get them all once more enclosed in their separate dormitories.†
Chpt 20
- Ere long, with the servant's aid, I contrived to mount a staircase; my dripping clothes were removed; soon a warm, dry bed received me.†
Chpt 28
- "I trust I shall not eat long at your expense, sir," was my very clumsily-contrived, unpolished answer.†
Chpt 29
- Without one overt act of hostility, one upbraiding word, he contrived to impress me momently with the conviction that I was put beyond the pale of his favour.†
Chpt 35
Definition:
-
(contrived) unnatural seeming (due to careful planning)
or more rarely:
arranged (that something should happen)