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  • said Alice, surprised at her own ingenuity.   (source)
    ingenuity = cleverness (smart creativity)
  • To truly test a chef's ingenuity, one must instead look to a period of want.†   (source)
  • In ingenuity.†   (source)
  • A long time ago, Erudite pursued knowledge and ingenuity for the sake of doing good.†   (source)
  • You've all shown ingenuity in one form or another — and yes, in one form or another, you're all alone."†   (source)
  • That you have exercised all of your considerable ingenuity?†   (source)
  • It took unbelievable courage and ingenuity, not to mention enormous bribes, for Schindler to get the necessary approvals to disassemble lathes, punch presses, and other heavy equipment and transport all of the parts to that distant location.†   (source)
  • The world's misery was a challenge to her ingenuity.†   (source)
  • Crake had no very high opinion of human ingenuity, despite the large amount of it he himself possessed.†   (source)
  • They had been "transformed" into an invention and were now the product of Golde's "human ingenuity" and "inventive effort."†   (source)
  • "And are you not," said Fook, leaning anxiously forward, "a greater analyst than the Googleplex Star Thinker in the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity which can calculate the trajectory of every single dust particle throughout a five-week Dangrabad Beta sand blizzard?"†   (source)
  • Fortunately, after applying his extensive tool kit and considerable ingenuity to the problem, Rob managed to rivet together a special strap that made the crampons work.†   (source)
  • There are myriad uses for it, limited only by your ingenuity.†   (source)
  • It was a complicated project requiring real ingenuity and a friend named Vincent, who helped, but I made the mistake of asking my sister Kathy to fill out the one I used for myself, because I was afraid Mommy would recognize my handwriting.†   (source)
  • Szpirglas was smiling, as though marveling at our ingenuity.†   (source)
  • At first my role was to provide Web ingenuity to help the colonists do what they do best-destroy truly indigenous life.†   (source)
  • Mae understood it as most Circlers did: as a show of strength, and as a demonstration that with the will and ingenuity and economic wherewithal of the Circle, no earthly question would remain unanswered.†   (source)
  • She saw the beauty of two battered cloth roses, the ingenuity of beds rigged from chairs, the cleverness and courage and triumph of two girls living on their own.†   (source)
  • The very idea, the very existence, the wondrous ingenuity.†   (source)
  • An unparalleled feat of architectural ingenuity for the 1850s.†   (source)
  • I had to laugh at the ingenuity of fate.†   (source)
  • Though Dal never said as much, we knew we were being taught something beyond mere concentration and ingenuity.†   (source)
  • Children of Athena are sprung from the divine thoughts of our mother and the mortal ingenuity of our father.†   (source)
  • Of patience, planning, and ingenuity.†   (source)
  • Dr. Urbino, a good loser, bowed to the ingenuity of his wife and was even surprised at how amused he was by the advances the parrot made when he was excited by the servant girls.†   (source)
  • This state of affairs rewarded people's diligence, imagination, and ingenuity.†   (source)
  • I laugh at the ingenuity of my poor, trapped countryman.†   (source)
  • Her hard work, her ingenuity, and now, despite everything, the wasps were going to escape.†   (source)
  • But their first sight of a horse pulling a cart will set them pointing and laughing at the ingenuity of the fellow who thought of that one.†   (source)
  • The monitor has a special frequency developed with ingenuity.†   (source)
  • He had little money, a small set of hand tools, and his ingenuity.†   (source)
  • In our earlier encounter, I saw enough to realize that it was due to your ingenuity that the Indigo Dragon escaped.†   (source)
  • When our drinks arrived, Claire and I toasted Cindy's ingenuity in coming up with Jenks's name in such short time.†   (source)
  • Severo del Valle was obliged to use all his legal ingenuity to bring his brother-in-law back to life and the full rights of citizenship.†   (source)
  • With a little ingenuity and vision, he had made it all but impossible for anyone in the squadron to talk to him, which was just fine with everyone, he noticed, since no one wanted to talk to him anyway.†   (source)
  • This is the culmination of a semesterlong exercise in ingenuity and teamwork that the MITES do every year.†   (source)
  • Naturally, my men could've swept in and taken you at any point after that, but I thought it better to let you twist in the wind awhile and see if your ingenuity might not lead us to the one ymbryne who's consistently managed to evade us."†   (source)
  • The woman's ingenuity was quite unexpected.†   (source)
  • I make it a point to compliment the strength and ingenuity of the people who sit in my office.†   (source)
  • Yet when you have lived invisible as long as I have you develop a certain ingenuity.†   (source)
  • He conducted the debate not only with great ingenuity and eloquence, but with equal politeness and candor.†   (source)
  • There was nothing else, nothing to dilute it, so that one could admire naked purpose and the ingenuity that had achieved it.†   (source)
  • For a moment, Max thought Bellagrog would conjure another argument, right her ship with the same wily ingenuity she had demonstrated throughout the afternoon.†   (source)
  • I was put in charge, made a general, and sent into Serbia, where, by dint of my own ingenuity, we served honorably but did not kill a soul.†   (source)
  • He would, however, rely on the ingenuity of the Vigilance Committee to take care of the matter after the merchandise reached Baltimore.†   (source)
  • Some are unquestionably founded on sound political principles, and all are framed with singular ingenuity and precision.†   (source)
  • They fought many pitched battles against flying monkeys and melting witches, and with a little ingenuity and some luck at just the right moments, good always triumphed over evil on the glorious Virginia mountain.†   (source)
  • A little ingenuity can produce anything.†   (source)
  • If you do anything at all beautiful on a stage, anything nameless and joy-making, anything above and beyond the call of theatrical ingenuity, S. and I will both rent tuxedos and rhinestone hats and solemnly come around to the stage door with bouquets of snapdragons.†   (source)
  • I've always been impressed by his ingenuity.†   (source)
  • Randy left the house in time to see Missouri wedge herself under the wheel of the Henrys' Model-A Ford, an antique—so certified with a "Q" tag issued by the state—but kept in perfect running order by Malachai's mechanical ingenuity.†   (source)
  • He had sat here holding blank negatives, masterpieces of human ingenuity wasted.†   (source)
  • It was observed, however, that after the concert Thanthalteresco sought out the three composers who had been present, and complimented them all on what he called their "great ingenuity".†   (source)
  • Through a combination of her own ingenuity, for instance, and oversight on the part of one of the SS guards, Sophie managed to keep a much worn but still serviceable pair of leather boots which she had owned since her last days in Cracow.†   (source)
  • Enormous ingenuity is apparent with some of the loners in placing the water supply higher than the unit and connecting it with plastic pipe so that a gravity flow is insured.†   (source)
  • Ultimately, we'll be reduced to walking, I'm sure, and it will doubtless take all of our strength and ingenuity to make it, if we make it at all.†   (source)
  • Christina, by a miracle of courage and ingenuity, got inside the German lines and blew it up, and was taken alive and hanged.†   (source)
  • Every device of which human ingenuity is capable, has been used to deny this right.†   (source)
  • Over the sticks set in among the plants they laid the quilts one by one, spreading them with a slow ingenuity.†   (source)
  • The borealis flickered around her features and tightly gowned figure, but it could not disguise the fact that although she had ambition, avarice, and ingenuity, she was utterly devoid of sensitivity and clairvoyance.†   (source)
  • In it copper bats fly on electronic beams, brass rats scuttle in plastic cellars, robot skeletons dance; robot vampires, harlequins, wolves, and white phantoms, compounded of chemical and ingenuity, live here.†   (source)
  • ...I reflected upon the daring, dashing, and discriminating ingenuity of D—   (source)
    ingenuity = ability to solve problems in smart creative ways
  • You see, ingenuity—one of the qualities we most value in Erudite—requires creativity.†   (source)
  • Darwin studied the ingenuity of plant pollination in great detail.†   (source)
  • Now they pursue knowledge and ingenuity with greedy hearts.†   (source)
  • And what youcan do is only limited by your ingenuity and by your knowledge of the ancient language?†   (source)
  • All this ingenuity and labor, this delicate effort to fit maximum waste into diminishing space.†   (source)
  • It would require some ingenuity and some luck, but he would do it if needed.†   (source)
  • But they should do so by their own ingenuity.†   (source)
  • An incomparable mind could not turn its ingenuity to the invention of melting ballrooms.†   (source)
  • The extraordinary ingenuity and industry of the Dutch in wresting land from the sea were legendary.†   (source)
  • The emphasis was on cooperation and ingenuity, and it proved to be a combustible mix.†   (source)
  • Lorenzo, left to his own ingenuity, decided to use a balloon.†   (source)
  • If he concealed his ingenuity, he concealed his hurts too.†   (source)
  • It was a brilliant stroke, and confirms us in our opinion that Waterford was, in his prime, a man of considerable ingenuity.†   (source)
  • I put my own ingenuity to work, coming up with a dozen names from my reading, because, of course, I don't want to give the sons any real Dominican names and get someone in trouble.†   (source)
  • His ingenuity was wearing thin.†   (source)
  • Chakrabarty's lawyers argued that since normal bacteria don't consume oil, Chakrabarty's bacteria weren't naturally occurring—they only existed because he'd altered them using "human ingenuity."†   (source)
  • But finding ways to make them perform in the same manner as a long sentence or phrase stretched his ingenuity to the limit.†   (source)
  • At the closing ceremony of the convention, the mayor—a bald and brutish sort, whom we will have reason to revisit later—thanked the attendees for their artistry, their ingenuity, and their dedication to the Party.†   (source)
  • I was hoping that Denna would be impressed by my ingenuity, but she seemed distracted by the scene below.†   (source)
  • He had spent a great deal of money, ingenuity, and willpower to disguise the seventy-six years he had completed in March, and he was convinced in the solitude of his soul that he had loved in silence for a much longer time than anyone else in this world ever had.†   (source)
  • From our lonely corner of the cosmos we have used ingenuity and determination to touch the very limits of outer and inner space.†   (source)
  • They threw cow gall onto the courtyard and, rubbed hot chili on the walls, thinking they could defeat her pernicious vice with those methods, but she showed such signs of astuteness and ingenuity to find some earth that Ursula found herself forced to use more drastic methods.†   (source)
  • What Thomas called furniture was sparse among the Desert Dwellers-they lacked the wood-but their ingenuity was evident.†   (source)
  • She could because Morzan allowed her somewhat more freedom than his other servants so that she could use her own ingenuity and initiative while carrying out his orders.†   (source)
  • All during this meal he talks about the caterpillars: their numbers, their ingenuity, the various methods of defeating them.†   (source)
  • I have his stubborn streak and, on rare occasions, his temper; but I also possess his ambition and ingenuity.†   (source)
  • Certainly the audiences before whom she spoke offered no challenge to her ingenuity or her imagination.†   (source)
  • Meme felt with an aftershock that the box had been on the railing for a long time within reach of Fernanda's curiosity, and although she was flattered by the audacity and ingenuity of Mauricio Babilonia, she was moved by his Innocence in expecting that she would keep the date.†   (source)
  • Esteban Trueba was no adventurer, but the French count had the winged grace and ingenuity to seduce him, so he spent many sleepless nights mulling over the idea of the chinchilla farm and working out the figures.†   (source)
  • Kicking games, throwing games, rolling games … Max was amazed at the ingenuity behind each and the enthusiasm that followed.†   (source)
  • She found pleasure in watching the ingenuity of an open belt that moved slowly, carrying slices of bread past glowing electric coils.†   (source)
  • -but it's just that a man of culture is bored with the alleged wonders of purely material ingenuity," she was saying.†   (source)
  • She described Oscar's success in Santa Barbara, noting that his team triumphed due to their "ingenuity, positive outlook, and willingness to work hard."†   (source)
  • But they had all known that there was no way; ingenuity was a virtue of the mind-and in the issue confronting them, the mind had been discarded as irrelevant long ago.†   (source)
  • The robotics team swelled to more than fifty members, all of whom heard the tale of how Oscar, Luis, Lorenzo, and Cristian had succeeded with little more than their ingenuity and some spare parts.†   (source)
  • Her feeling for the railroad was the same: worship of the skill that had gone to make it, of the ingenuity of someone's clean, reasoning mind, worship with a secret smile that said she would know how to make it better some day.†   (source)
  • The homes were not lined along a street, they were spread at irregular intervals over the rises and hollows of the ground, they were small and simple, built of local materials, mostly of granite and pine, with a prodigal ingenuity of thought and a tight economy of physical effort.†   (source)
  • At a signal from Wesley Mouch, his voice boomed suddenly over the prairie, an unctuous, fraudulently solemn voice magnified by the microphone inventor's ingenuity into the sound and power of a giant: "Ladies and gentlemen ….†   (source)
  • He had had no advice to give them, no solution to offer; his ingenuity, which had made him famous as the man who would always find a way to keep production going, had not been able to discover a way to save them.†   (source)
  • …when, at its plunge into the tunnels, she had felt a sudden, solemn tension, as if this place were showing her in naked simplicity the essence of her railroad and of her life, the union of consciousness and matter, the frozen form of a mind's ingenuity giving physical existence to its purpose; she had felt a sense of sudden hope, as if this place held the meaning of all of her values, and a sense of secret excitement, as if a nameless promise were awaiting her under the ground-it was…†   (source)
  • He was the man of extravagant energy-and reckless generosity-who knew that stagnation is not man's fate, that impotence is not his nature, that the ingenuity of his mind is his noblest and most joyous power-and in service to that love of existence he was alone to feel, he went on working, working at any price, working for his despoilers, for his jailers, for his torturers, paying with his life for the privilege of saving theirs.†   (source)
  • They were the nights spent at scorching ovens in the research laboratory of the mills—the nights spent in the workshop of his home, over sheets of paper which he filled with formulas, then tore up in angry failure—the days when the young scientists of the small staff he had chosen to assist him waited for instructions like soldiers ready for a hopeless battle, having exhausted their ingenuity, still willing, but silent, with the unspoken sentence hanging in the air: "Mr.†   (source)
  • With the British and the Dutch sole owners of Malaya and the East Indies, criminally fixing astronomical rates on the world market, what else could Germany do but employ its technological ingenuity to create a synthetic substitute that would not only be economical, durable, resilient, but "Oil-resistant!"†   (source)
  • Racists showed high ingenuity in developing schemes to destroy a man's reputation as a means of nullifying his work.†   (source)
  • But that requires the most enormous ingenuity.†   (source)
  • Your ingenuity will be equal to the task of explaining his reappearance.†   (source)
  • It is, perhaps, an invitation to use your ingenuity.†   (source)
  • A great natural ingenuity, and an apparently remorseless determination to mislead justice.†   (source)
  • No, the ingenuity of Hercule Poirot shall defeat your enemies!†   (source)
  • The House may be assured that the utmost ingenuity is being displayed and imagination is being evoked from large numbers of competent officers, well-trained in tactics and thoroughly up to date, to measure and counterwork novel possibilities.†   (source)
  • Sitting in the failing dusk, his head in its white bandage looming bigger and more ghostly than ever, he thinks, 'More things indeed,' thinking how ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crises with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.†   (source)
  • He had stolen several times, but the gains had not been sufficient to offset his dread of being locked up; he had sufficient ingenuity to escape on the field itself all the police in the world, but nothing could protect him against the tale bearing of his enemies.†   (source)
  • The Wart had no need to use ingenuity.†   (source)
  • Poirot coughed and said: "You know, Hastings, there is a little device-my hairdresser is a man of great ingenuity-one attaches it to the scalp and brushes one's own hair over it-it is not a wig, you comprehend-but-"†   (source)
  • All this slowly, for things had low action these mortified times, and even his ingenuity was numb from the speed and depth of the fall, and much of his thought went into tracing back the steps he should have taken to save at least Arthur's money--and Dingbat's.†   (source)
  • Once again Conway was captivated, and by the same qualities of charm and ingenuity that had made his years in China happier than others.†   (source)
  • You'll exercise your matchless ingenuity within forms chosen by the taste of the people—and you'll make money for me.†   (source)
  • And, as if nature were protecting man against his own ingenuity, the reproductive processes were affected for a time; men became sterile, women had miscarriages, menstruation stopped.†   (source)
  • How often the priest had heard the same confession - Man was so limited he hadn't even the ingenuity to invent a new vice: the animals knew as much.†   (source)
  • Either he is still hidden on the train in a place of such extraordinary ingenuity that we cannot even think of it; or else he is, as one might say, two persons .†   (source)
  • They spent their ingenuity in the other direction; in accommodating themselves to the scene in which they found themselves.†   (source)
  • The clay-coloured, earthy nondescript animal of the field here erects himself and with infinite ingenuity and effort puts up a fight against the green woods and green fields and sheep advancing with measured tread, munching.†   (source)
  • He did not leave the valley again, but it was his ingenuity which devised the complicated system by which the lamasery has ever since been able to obtain anything needful from the outer world.†   (source)
  • It must be the most brilliant, the most efficient exhibit of planning ingenuity and structural economy ever achieved anywhere.†   (source)
  • He was the ship's carpenter and handyman, and from one point of view I was in luck, having no manual skill or ingenuity myself.†   (source)
  • She couldn't satisfy her ingenuity in planning meals.†   (source)
  • And now the tiresome chirping of a cricket that no human ingenuity could locate, began.†   (source)
  • I'faith, 'twill be a tough job, and tax even the ingenuity of our chief.†   (source)
  • Nicole was the product of much ingenuity and toil.†   (source)
  • But it was to the mortification of touch he brought the most assiduous ingenuity of inventiveness.†   (source)
  • But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.†   (source)
  • I could no longer doubt the doom prepared for me by monkish ingenuity in torture.†   (source)
  • The eloquent auctioneer smiled at his own ingenuity.†   (source)
  • 'But he has been ingenious, and he has been trying to turn his ingenuity to his country's service.†   (source)
  • These recruits displayed some of the French ingenuity and fury.†   (source)
  • Then you began to use your ingenuity to get him out of the way.†   (source)
  • What better field could there be for a due ingenuity?†   (source)
  • He was an universal favourite, and his ingenuity in little things was transcendent.†   (source)
  • Still it exceeded his ingenuity to see how that alternative could well be avoided.†   (source)
  • Cosette's whole person was ingenuousness, ingenuity, transparency, whiteness, candor, radiance.†   (source)
  • His ingenuity will one day discover the philosopher's stone.†   (source)
  • Their eloquence and ingenuity were expended in vain.†   (source)
  • Energy and ingenuity can arrange everything.†   (source)
  • Now our ingenuity was taxed to the utmost.†   (source)
  • Mabel smiled at the readiness and ingenuity of the girl, and prepared to execute her requests.†   (source)
  • Never was ingenuity exercised so sorely as the traveller here exercised hers.†   (source)
  • But his ingenuity availed him little, against the cold artifices of the people he had encountered.†   (source)
  • 'I shall now show you that I am not at all behindhand in ingenuity.†   (source)
  • "Surely," said Mrs. Bread, apparently impressed by the ingenuity of this reflection.†   (source)
  • The words seemed to him for the moment a vivid description of infernal ingenuity.†   (source)
  • He was one of those boys who are too slack to play games, and he exercised great ingenuity in making excuses to avoid such as were compulsory.†   (source)
  • Early that morning a peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their whereabouts.†   (source)
  • Another of her principles was that parents should never (at least visibly) interfere with the plans of their married children; and the difficulty of adjusting this respect for May's independence with the exigency of Mr. Welland's claims could be overcome only by the exercise of an ingenuity which left not a second of Mrs. Welland's own time unprovided for.†   (source)
  • He satisfied my curiosity, for Erik, who is a real monster--I have seen him at work in Persia, alas--is also, in certain respects, a regular child, vain and self-conceited, and there is nothing he loves so much, after astonishing people, as to prove all the really miraculous ingenuity of his mind.†   (source)
  • He admired the ingenuity of the automatic dial, clicking off gallon by gallon; admired the smartness of the sign: "A fill in time saves getting stuck—gas to-day 31 cents"; admired the rhythmic gurgle of the gasoline as it flowed into the tank, and the mechanical regularity with which Moon turned the handle.†   (source)
  • He never formed an opinion on any subject until she had formed hers, his special duty being to carry out her wishes and those of the 'faithful' generally, which he did with boundless ingenuity.†   (source)
  • The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness.†   (source)
  • "And now be the judge yourself, Mr. Stewart," said Robin; and taking up the variations from the beginning, he worked them throughout to so new a purpose, with such ingenuity and sentiment, and with so odd a fancy and so quick a knack in the grace-notes, that I was amazed to hear him.†   (source)
  • A pathetic display of ingenuity!†   (source)
  • And beside the many duties she had added to this work was one of extreme delicacy, such as required all her tact and ingenuity.†   (source)
  • The praises they got for their 'prompt action, their 'common sense, their 'ingenuity, were enough to have turned anybody's head.†   (source)
  • The ingenuity of man could not have devised a stranger, a more enticing, a more overpoweringly fatal situation.†   (source)
  • His mathematics and physical chemistry were now as sound as Terry's, his indifference to publicity and to flowery hangings as great, his industry as fanatical, his ingenuity in devising new apparatus at least comparable, and his imagination far more swift.†   (source)
  • Its modest "effects," compact of enamel paint and ingenuity, spoke to him in the language just then sweetest to his ear.†   (source)
  • And yet the cause, necessarily to be assumed as the sole one assignable, is in its very realism as much charged with that prime element of Radcliffian romance, the mysterious, as any that the ingenuity of the author of the Mysteries of Udolpho could devise.†   (source)
  • All these lives and that of her husband, lay in Marguerite's hands; these she must save, if human pluck and ingenuity were equal to the task.†   (source)
  • As water gushed from the chamber under the car, Dick was impressed with the ingenuity of the whole idea—a complimentary car was now taking on mountain water at the top and would pull the lightened car up by gravity, as soon as the brakes were released.†   (source)
  • Carry had in fact come dangerously near to being involved in the episode of Mrs. Norma Hatch, and it had taken some verbal ingenuity to extricate herself.†   (source)
  • Three-fourths of the mental ingenuity displayed, of the social falsehoods scattered broadcast ever since the world began by people whose importance they have served only to diminish, have been aimed at inferiors.†   (source)
  • When he took up diffusion problems, he began to develop his own apparatus, and whether it was from inborn ingenuity or merely from a fury of labor, he was so competent that he won from Terry the almost overwhelming praise: "Why, that's not so darn' bad, Slim!"†   (source)
  • When there were two cases of exactly the same sort and the student proposed the treatment which the physician had ordered for the first, Dr. Tyrell exercised considerable ingenuity in thinking of something else.†   (source)
  • Our earthly fire also consumes more or less rapidly according as the object which it attacks is more or less combustible, so that human ingenuity has even succeeded in inventing chemical preparations to check or frustrate its action.†   (source)
  • As soon as he is aware of his danger he will exercise more caution: his ingenuity is a veritable miracle.†   (source)
  • It was apparently Trenor himself who had been occupying the seat in question, for it was overhung by a cloud of cigar smoke, and near it stood one of those intricate folding tables which British ingenuity has devised to facilitate the circulation of tobacco and spirits.†   (source)
  • But none of the feelings which the joys or misfortunes of a 'real' person awaken in us can be awakened except through a mental picture of those joys or misfortunes; and the ingenuity of the first novelist lay in his understanding that, as the picture was the one essential element in the complicated structure of our emotions, so that simplification of it which consisted in the suppression, pure and simple, of 'real' people would be a decided improvement.†   (source)
  • It seemed so simple! and Marguerite could be marvel at the wonderful ingenuity, the boundless pluck and audacity which had evolved and helped to carry out this daring plan.†   (source)
  • Selden evinced an extraordinary interest in her household arrangements: complimented her on the ingenuity with which she had utilized every inch of her small quarters, asked how her servant managed about afternoons out, learned that one may improvise delicious dinners in a chafing-dish, and uttered thoughtful generalizations on the burden of a large establishment.†   (source)
  • "It is, of course, the case of the Comte de Tournay, this time; a dangerous task, for the Comte, whose escape from his chateau, after he had been declared a 'suspect' by the Committee of Public Safety, was a masterpiece of the Scarlet Pimpernel's ingenuity, is now under sentence of death.†   (source)
  • He made her eyes glow with enthusiasm by telling her of his bravery, his ingenuity, his resourcefulness, when it meant snatching the lives of men, women, and even children from beneath the very edge of that murderous, ever-ready guillotine.†   (source)
  • No wonder that Chauvelin's spies had failed to detect, in the apparently brainless nincompoop, the man whose reckless daring and resourceful ingenuity had baffled the keenest French spies, both in France and in England.†   (source)
  • Now, one of these persons whom I shall see anon in the supper-room, will be journeying to Calais, and I shall follow that person, until I have tracked him to where those fugitive aristocrats await him; for that person, fair lady, will be the man whom I have sought for, for nearly a year, the man whose energies has outdone me, whose ingenuity has baffled me, whose audacity has set me wondering—yes! me!†   (source)
  • …to lay down our lives for your husband, Lady Blakeney," Sir Andrew had said to her; and as she looked at the forehead, low, but square and broad, the eyes, blue, yet deep-set and intense, the whole aspect of the man, of indomitable energy, hiding, behind a perfectly acted comedy, his almost superhuman strength of will and marvellous ingenuity, she understood the fascination which he exercised over his followers, for had he not also cast his spells over her heart and her imagination?†   (source)
  • Newman's manner with women was peculiar, and it required some ingenuity on a lady's part to discover that he admired her.†   (source)
  • In spite of all the cunning and ingenuity of the German steward, who would try to tempt him into purchases by making his original estimate always far larger than really required, and then representing to Vronsky that he might get the thing cheaper, and so make a profit, Vronsky did not give in.†   (source)
  • Only some government could own such an engine of destruction, and in these disaster–filled times, when men tax their ingenuity to build increasingly powerful aggressive weapons, it was possible that, unknown to the rest of the world, some nation could have been testing such a fearsome machine.†   (source)
  • Then, with masterly ingenuity, the procurator had new maps drawn for delivery to a new keeper, with the omission, as we have seen, of cell VI.†   (source)
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