All 5 Uses of
contrived
in
The Time Machine
- But I pointed out the distant pinnacles of the Palace of Green Porcelain to her, and contrived to make her understand that we were seeking a refuge there from her Fear.†
Chpt 7 *
- My first was to secure some safe place of refuge, and to make myself such arms of metal or stone as I could contrive.†
Chpt 7
- Then I wanted to arrange some contrivance to break open the doors of bronze under the White Sphinx.†
Chpt 7
- If we could get through it to the bare hill-side, there, as it seemed to me, was an altogether safer resting-place; I thought that with my matches and my camphor I could contrive to keep my path illuminated through the woods.†
Chpt 9
- 'Now as I stood and examined it, finding a pleasure in the mere touch of the contrivance, the thing I had expected happened.†
Chpt 10
Definition:
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(contrived) unnatural seeming (due to careful planning)
or more rarely:
arranged (that something should happen)