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  • We were having lunch at the Arcadian Court; Winifred had invited me there, just the two of us, to devise a stratagem for Laura, as she put it.   (source)
    devise = think of
  • Together they practiced new skills he devised.   (source)
    devised = invented or created
  • Jem, educated on a half-Decimal half-Duncecap basis, seemed to function effectively alone or in a group, but Jem was a poor example: no tutorial system devised by man could have stopped him from getting at books.   (source)
    devised = invented
  • Mrs. Bradley knew people had a difficult time saying nice things to each other, so she devised a way for us to anonymously say what we felt.   (source)
    devised = came up with (created)
  • And so, as Jaimito snored away, Dede began devising a little exercise to distract her mind and fortify her spirit.   (source)
    devising = thinking of
  • Either the students would have to change the way they behaved, or I would have to devise a better plan to protect myself.   (source)
    devise = think of
  • You must devise a way so that you sleep a little if he is quiet and steady.   (source)
    devise = come up with (invent)
  • I entertain myself devising new tortures for him.   (source)
    devising = thinking of
  • They discovered he had devised his own way of hooking up the septic system.   (source)
    devised = created
  • I'm beginning to think we — meaning the person whose death I'm now devising and me — we might actually have gone unnoticed.†   (source)
  • Now, I wanted a quick talk with you all before we actually get onto the field, because I spent the summer devising a whole new training program, which I really think will make all the difference.... Wood was holding up a large diagram of a Quidditch field, on which were drawn many lines, arrows, and crosses in different-colored inks.†   (source)
  • My father, a man whose engineering mind always comes up with a solution, devised a plan.†   (source)
  • We had devised numerous programs and plans, but the commander vetoed them all.†   (source)
  • What so of Divinity, he seemed to be thinking, would devise a world in which an aging man's malady afflicts the very attribute that has set him apart from his fellow men and elevated him the eyes of all?†   (source)
  • I spent my days devising new strategies for capture-the-flag and making alliances with the other cabins to keep the banner out of Ares's hands.†   (source)
  • He went back to his room and desperately tried to devise a plan.†   (source)
  • I had to devise a training program for Richard Parker.†   (source)
  • In fact, I had devised a detailed schedule for the next couple of weeks.†   (source)
  • To get her thoughts together and devise a plan.†   (source)
  • Originally, Tarot had been devised as a secret means to pass along ideologies banned by the Church.†   (source)
  • He knew the rivers and rails, the ruins and natural veins of ore, and dozens of escape routes he'd devised in case he was ever pursued by city authorities.†   (source)
  • Zero-g exercise regimens could keep the heart and bones healthy, but none had been devised that would give them full function from Sol 1.†   (source)
  • I go online and devise a running plan.†   (source)
  • People are running and sweating and devising ways to check each other out without getting caught.†   (source)
  • All these people, in conjunction with the State Department of Education in Tallahassee, have helped to devise this emergency relocation plan.†   (source)
  • They devised a trick.†   (source)
  • "I devised a special retrieval device," Freak says.†   (source)
  • I wouldn't put it past him to have devised a way to blast the sainted Mary Magdalene off her pedestal—I'm sure he could have muffled the explosion so skillfully that the nuns would have slept right through it.†   (source)
  • He almost hoped he never found out what they had devised for his friends.†   (source)
  • You and I know, of course, that Mr. Poe was panicking over Sunny and the Incredibly Deadly Viper, but all Violet knew was that whatever ruse her siblings had devised was still working.†   (source)
  • And an inventive one could devise electronics using native skill and native resources and designed for native conditions.†   (source)
  • While she was gone, I devised another plan.†   (source)
  • Mr. Benedict had expected him to be a leader to his friends, to be smart enough to devise a plan, to be brave.†   (source)
  • It was not as if he had any chance to devise a plan, anyway.†   (source)
  • Finally, I devised a plan that might work.†   (source)
  • The impression was of closeted boredom punctuated by contests and schemes—jumping between the beds, building a camp, half devising a board game, then giving up.†   (source)
  • Toward evening they set her at the easiest task they could devise — the making of corn pudding.†   (source)
  • Cinder was grateful that the doctor had so easily devised a story, but it also unnerved her.†   (source)
  • The Vogon began to read—a fetid little passage of his own devising.†   (source)
  • It does not escape me that this deposition may be devised to blind us; it may well be that Mary Warren has been conquered by Satan, who sends her here to distract our sacred purpose.†   (source)
  • Artemis Fowl had devised a plan to restore his family's fortune.†   (source)
  • Since my new friends and I never had any money, we devised what we thought was an extraordinarily clever way to ride for free.†   (source)
  • And yet every time I devised some pretext to get her on her own, here he came, thump thump thump, sheepish grin, arm around her shoulder, wrecking everything.†   (source)
  • Maraa Isabel devises a plan to stay.†   (source)
  • One other category that Kim and I devised was people who tried to be cool and people who did not.†   (source)
  • It took me a while, but I was able to devise its meaning, at least where it's legible.†   (source)
  • It was a World War Two film: the Allies devise a scheme to mislead Germany about the site of the upcoming landings in Europe.†   (source)
  • The Shrike Cult saw the monster as an avenging angel; the Ousters saw it as a tool of human devising, sent back through time to deliver humanity from the TechnoCore.†   (source)
  • In order to keep you safe, we devised a way for you to be separated from us.†   (source)
  • The song was obviously of his own devising, a rather candid revelation about the personal habits of a local nobleman.†   (source)
  • What other diabolical things have they devised?†   (source)
  • She begins to pride herself on doing it alone, in devising a routine.†   (source)
  • In the biblical story, King Solomon devises a way to find out what is in each woman's heart.†   (source)
  • Together they devised an elaborate life insurance fraud, which Mudgett described in his memoir.†   (source)
  • But slowly it dawned upon my love-drunk skull: he had only welcomed me there after devising his program to make me whole!†   (source)
  • The team was a very large one, there being a surfeit of able bodies and a shortage of machinery, and the foreman was constantly devising methods of using so many people efficiently.†   (source)
  • She sat for a while wondering what the plan was that Alberto was devising.†   (source)
  • Jace had woken the rest of the Institute's residents at the crack of dawn and dragged them to the library to, as he said, "devise battle strategies.†   (source)
  • Ever since my former best friend (and werewolf), Jacob Black, had informed on me about the motorcycle I'd been riding on the sly — a betrayal he had devised in order to get me grounded so that I couldn't spend time with my boyfriend (and vampire), Edward Cullen — Edward had been allowed to see me only from seven till nine-thirty p. m., always inside the confines of my home and under the supervision of my dad's unfailingly crabby glare.†   (source)
  • Beneath his ejection seat a tape recorder was making a continuous record of the signal characteristics of the American aircraft so that the scientific people would be able to devise a means of jamming and foiling the vaunted American flying eye.†   (source)
  • So for us, he devised a means for extracting the virus from human blood serum and packaged it as a drug known as Snow Crash.†   (source)
  • Fat, kindly Dr. Cuevas attempted to treat her with pills of his own devising, with vitamins in syrup and throat swabbings with borax honey, but all to no apparent effect.†   (source)
  • The exhausted primary neurosurgeon who had devised the plan for the operation was a ghetto kid from the streets of Detroit.†   (source)
  • Palmer was given the task of finding out whether the elaborate educational curriculum that had been devised for Sesame Street by its academic advisers was actually reaching the show's viewers.†   (source)
  • Then, as if we had devised a plan in advance, some of us headed one way and others headed another way, zig-zagging around to throw off the reporters and camera crew.†   (source)
  • The way she looked at him, as if to say, Yes, yes, I did it, I made you sick, I made you hurt, I devised this agony just for you and it will be with you always now.†   (source)
  • I know only one man capable of devising this masterful trap.†   (source)
  • According to the schedule he had devised, he wanted to have a final draft for Henrik Vanger to look at by the first of September, so that he could spend the autumn revising the text.†   (source)
  • Between the two of us, we devised a plan for dealing with requests, giving highest priority to the ones where people needed help the most and we might be able to make a difference.†   (source)
  • Is it not regrettable you were unable to devise this delicious scheme by yourself?†   (source)
  • It seemed to me like he was buying time while he devised an answer.†   (source)
  • Thank you, sir, but Mr. Curran and I will devise a sufficient punishment.†   (source)
  • It is, of course, the responsibility of every butler to devote his utmost care in the devising of a staff plan.†   (source)
  • You can make lists, invent categories, devise charts and graphs.†   (source)
  • Dorothy Chen, who had devised a kind of matador technique to give him his daily shots, was rewarded by a perfect set of teeth marks on her shoulder.†   (source)
  • The managers had devised a number of creative ways to do so.†   (source)
  • Each state line they crossed brought Adam nearer to twenty-seven weeks of the most torturous military training ever devised.†   (source)
  • A task force of top-level state and federal experts on contagious diseases spent much of yesterday devising a detailed program to trace the path of the rare Ebola virus and who might have been exposed to it.†   (source)
  • Soraya's program, Injaz, teaches kids how to devise a business plan and then start and operate a small business.†   (source)
  • Becky Bloomwood was working as a financial journalist when she devised the innovative concept of Bloomwood Stores.†   (source)
  • No. Because the plan was Dick's, and from first footfall to final silence, flawlessly devised.†   (source)
  • I would have to use my all to perhaps find an unknown metal, strong but very light, or devise a different formula for a known one, mix some bronze with some iron and some air in a way ignored for a thousand years.†   (source)
  • I think she lacked the imagination to devise more interesting commands.†   (source)
  • So I've devised a system for you to get them right now.†   (source)
  • In time, they devised a plan, in order to escape the watchful eyes of Kathryn's parents.†   (source)
  • Governor William Tryon went further, implying in a letter to Germain that Washington himself had devised the plot and instructed the incendiaries.†   (source)
  • Needing to create a compromise between fear and desire, he devised what he called erotic friendship.†   (source)
  • Because of this, I had to devise new ways for him to pick me up.†   (source)
  • So a new technique was devised.†   (source)
  • Insanity—the simplest insanity ever devised!†   (source)
  • "As cunning a tale, Sire, as ever was devised," said Poggin.†   (source)
  • The engineers devised a plan to use the force of that river to carry its own water in a pipe up to communal water spigots that would be constructed in Cange.†   (source)
  • Colonel Cathcart pledged eternal gratitude to Colonel Korn for the ingenious moves he devised and was furious with him afterward when he realized they might not work.†   (source)
  • And that same part was coldly devising the punishment to fit the crime, even while the rest of me was terrified, and relieved, so pitifully relieved I was holding my dirty, sweaty boy.†   (source)
  • As such, I am more interested in hearing what you have learned than devising some sort of punishment.†   (source)
  • I had to devise numerous substitutions.†   (source)
  • My interactions with him had grown unpleasant, as I resented the fact that I worked for the nastiest man in construction services, and he seemed to take perverse pleasure in treating me in as degrading a manner as he could devise.†   (source)
  • I give, devise, etc., 5% of my estate to the Irish Road Christian Church.†   (source)
  • But as the hours pass—one, then two and three—and it becomes obvious that help is not coming, Kennedy knows he must devise a new plan.†   (source)
  • 'There is some new devilry here,' he said, 'devised for our welcome no doubt.†   (source)
  • And this trick, Blackberry, is going to be devised by you.†   (source)
  • He tests off the charts of every intelligence scale devised.†   (source)
  • Obediently, I waited, my face buried in my hands, wondering what game he was devising.†   (source)
  • d devised to try to short credit her.†   (source)
  • When Jack was nineteen he knew he was about to be drafted, so he devised a plan to enlist in the Navy and avoid land battle.†   (source)
  • They were still devising a plan to get it back to him.†   (source)
  • I try to devise some way to help her.†   (source)
  • Pansexual—Devised to cover a wider definition than bisexual—for example, a man or woman loving a transgender person.†   (source)
  • As we were driving, Jenny confided to me that she'd been missing Josh lately and had devised a plan to get him back.†   (source)
  • While I'm sure your men won't like that much, we'll have a very long time to devise our next move.†   (source)
  • Every single one I can devise in this primitive Menningers of Port Noir.†   (source)
  • And so, they devise a desperate plan—they sacrifice a princess to the dragon to satisfy his hunger—a daily sacrifice!†   (source)
  • Dany had refused to compensate any of the Great Masters for the value of their slaves, but the Meereenese kept devising other ways to squeeze coin from her.†   (source)
  • The important thing is that we must devise two plans, a main strategy and a backup.†   (source)
  • It was recognized that this was a relatively minor achievement compared to other toxins that had been devised in recent years.†   (source)
  • Over the years, we devised many ways of obtaining them, but back then we were not so adept.†   (source)
  • He began devising different games, each of which was designed to improve the boys' reflexes, stamina and camaraderie.†   (source)
  • Line marriage is the strongest possible device for conserving capital and insuring the welfare of children—the two basic societal functions for marriage everywhere—in an enviroment in which there is no security, neither for capital nor for children, other than that devised by individuals.†   (source)
  • Archie alone was always under pressure, devising the assignments, working them out.†   (source)
  • LONG BEFORE the war, AJessandro and Rafi had devised a system of self-belay for solo climbing.†   (source)
  • He had devised a new type of truss.†   (source)
  • DCY/M had devised them at very short notice.†   (source)
  • No time to devise anything else.†   (source)
  • She devised and enforced Joe's punishment herself, and together they concealed the incident from Frank.†   (source)
  • A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in enacting or devising the law.†   (source)
  • In the front yard we regularly spent hours playing a game we devised using a broomstick or a broken hoe handle for a bat and several discarded socks stuffed tightly into one another for a ball.†   (source)
  • The truth is, juries in that court are rare and not necessary except where the validity of a devise of land comes into question.†   (source)
  • Their systems were barely beyond what Boeing had devised.†   (source)
  • They had also devised new methods of communication to avoid detection by the NSA and other Western eavesdropping services.†   (source)
  • The crux of that problem involves an ongoing partition of the island between British and Irish jurisdictions, and an equally persistent partition of the affections in Northern Ireland between the British and Irish heritages; but surely every dweller in the country must hope that the governments involved in its governance can devise institutions which will allow that partition to become a bit more like the net on a tennis court, a demarcation allowing for agile give-and-take, for encounter and contending, prefiguring a future where the vitality that flowed in the beginning from those bracing words "enemy" and "allies" might finally derive from a less binary and altogethe†   (source)
  • I was young then, and my youth permitted me to believe that I could change the world if only I could devise a cunning enough strategy.†   (source)
  • She slowed her pace, then at the thought of having to go back to Miss Susan and whatever form of punishment she and her husband would have devised, she started running again.†   (source)
  • Some insects of bolder inventiveness have devised personal refrigeration systems.†   (source)
  • Is it not consistent with their record of sabotage, subversion and human trafficking that the British should devise this desperate plot?†   (source)
  • Leaning against the tree, he reads parts of the letter aloud, commenting, sarcastic, on what is blatantly a pack of lies devised to soothe Gennaro until Angelo can muster his own army of Squamuglians to invade Faggio.†   (source)
  • Three hours later dinner was ready ( it consisted of fish balls cooked Polynesian style with a sweet-and-sour sauce of my own devising), and there was no sign of my guests.†   (source)
  • I challenge the engineers in this audience to devise new techniques for developing cheap, clean, and plentiful energy, and as a byproduct, to control floods.†   (source)
  • After I'd devised a system whereby key weather stations and meteorological observation satellites fed their reports directly into the central system, I was promoted to the position of senior programmer and given some supervisory responsibility.†   (source)
  • But one late afternoon in June nearly brought a disastrous ending to the precarious equilibrium she had devised for herself.†   (source)
  • The officials were in the regulation dress devised by the President—short-sleeved jackets, cravats, in place of shirts and ties.†   (source)
  • Yes, perhaps instruments could be devised.... What he had refused to do under duress, he might yet attempt of his own free wilL 4 .†   (source)
  • for what, when the excitement of the House shall have subsided, will be regarded as insufficient cause, no future President will be safe who happens to differ with a majority of the House and two-thirds of the Senate on any measure deemed by them important...What then becomes of the checks and balances of the Constitution so carefully devised and so vital to its perpetuity?†   (source)
  • Unwilling to run the risk of having Wilson Jordon, the physiologist who had developed the Rhodopsin Ionizer for Monarch picked up and questioned by the police, Reich phoned Keno Quizzard and devised a ruse to get Dr. Jordon off the planet.†   (source)
  • It seemed to me that God himself had devised, to mark my father's end, the most sustained and brutally dissonant of codas.†   (source)
  • Then he devised a way.   (source)
    devised = came up with (invented or created)
  • Jackson has devised a game called "Real or Not Real" to help Peeta.†   (source)
  • By the next morning, I had devised a new plan.†   (source)
  • This test was devised by a very clever psychologist named John Bargh.†   (source)
  • History of Magic was by common consent the most boring subject ever devised by wizardkind.†   (source)
  • A practical way to enter the trailer had never been devised, and now the Zeitouns didn't need it.†   (source)
  • Whoever devised the Quarter Quell system had prepared for centuries of Hunger Games.†   (source)
  • For a while, we dig roots, we gather berries and greens, we devise a strategy in hushed voices.†   (source)
  • So much so, he said, that they were already devising a system for installing it on boats.†   (source)
  • "Reverend Mother," he said, "we must devise a plan."†   (source)
  • We're going out a window," I said, devising a plan off the top of my head.†   (source)
  • Wizards much older and cleverer than you have devised our new programme of study.†   (source)
  • He couldn't devise the right thing to say, and soon she was gone.†   (source)
  • Together we finally devised a way that we would actually get the tumor out.†   (source)
  • A man who spent a lifetime devising iron bolts and locks understood the value of privacy.†   (source)
  • Then he devised an ingenious treasure hunt to ensure only Sophie would find it.†   (source)
  • Years later he still remembered the extra practise drills that Captain Adolfsson used to devise.†   (source)
  • My mother and Mrs. Bircz had devised a strategy they hoped would protect us.†   (source)
  • Now ....it took nine years for the elves' wisest magicians to devise the needed spell.†   (source)
  • If you can, devise some means of bodily protection.†   (source)
  • She used to discuss my games as if she had devised the strategies.†   (source)
  • Reason says that it can be done, but no one has managed to devise a spell that allows it.†   (source)
  • The plan Thufir Hawat had devised was admirably simple and direct, Feyd-Rautha thought.†   (source)
  • This has all been devised by the Gamemakers to guarantee the most dramatic showdown in history.†   (source)
  • Is there not some magick the four of you can devise to give us the best chance of it?†   (source)
  • Even the gods couldn't devise a fate so twisted.†   (source)
  • Sleep and be separated for some few hours from all the torments you have devised for yourself.†   (source)
  • I have no need of Roran's help in devising my plans, Eragon.†   (source)
  • Tell us, creature, or when I get you home, I will set to torturing you in every way I can devise....†   (source)
  • They'd already devised a nickname for it.†   (source)
  • I suppose if one wished to destroy Astaroth, they'd have to devise a very special weapon.†   (source)
  • The mother had devised the color code to save time.†   (source)
  • The plan Ser Axell had devised with Salladhor Saan was simple.†   (source)
  • Umaroth says that you have devised a battle plan.†   (source)
  • As we surge up into the world, we try to devise a shape, a plan.†   (source)
  • She wasn't so good at devising plans on the fly.†   (source)
  • No doubt someone made a blunder when the cover story was devised.†   (source)
  • In short, you devise an organism to carry your message.†   (source)
  • And so Mrs. Dyer's boys devised a sly technique to help him.†   (source)
  • Farmer had devised the regimen for Christian.†   (source)
  • Make yourself do it and devise some simple and sure way about the lines.†   (source)
  • What better gesture might I devise than an outstretched hailing hand?†   (source)
  • You'll text me if you devise some grand scheme," she said to Branna.†   (source)
  • I broke their code, but I fell into the trap they intended, the trap of a code devised to be broken.†   (source)
  • A fell weapon, perchance, devised by the Dark Lord.†   (source)
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