All 14 Uses of
contrived
in
Emma
- She was delighted to see her father look comfortable, and very much pleased with herself for contriving things so well; but the quiet prosings of three such women made her feel that every evening so spent was indeed one of the long evenings she had fearfully anticipated.†
Chpt 1.3-4
- "I wish we could contrive it," said she; "but I cannot think of any tolerable pretence for going in;—no servant that I want to inquire about of his housekeeper—no message from my father."†
Chpt 1.9-10
- "Part of my lace is gone," said she, "and I do not know how I am to contrive.†
Chpt 1.9-10
- The contrivances of modern days indeed have rendered a gentleman's carriage perfectly complete.†
Chpt 1.13-14 *
- He wished the road might be impassable, that he might be able to keep them all at Randalls; and with the utmost good-will was sure that accommodation might be found for every body, calling on his wife to agree with him, that with a little contrivance, every body might be lodged, which she hardly knew how to do, from the consciousness of there being but two spare rooms in the house.†
Chpt 1.15-16
- She admired him for contriving it, though not able to give him much credit for the manner in which it was announced.†
Chpt 1.17-18
- If Frank Churchill had wanted to see his father, he would have contrived it between September and January.†
Chpt 1.17-18
- —And then I tell her, I am sure she would contrive to make it out herself, if she had nobody to do it for her—every word of it—I am sure she would pore over it till she had made out every word.†
Chpt 2.1-2
- But when satisfied on all these points, and their acquaintance proportionably advanced, he contrived to find an opportunity, while their two fathers were engaged with each other, of introducing his mother-in-law, and speaking of her with so much handsome praise, so much warm admiration, so much gratitude for the happiness she secured to his father, and her very kind reception of himself, as was an additional proof of his knowing how to please—and of his certainly thinking it worth…†
Chpt 2.5-6
- He contrived that she should be seated by him; and was sufficiently employed in looking out the best baked apple for her, and trying to make her help or advise him in his work, till Jane Fairfax was quite ready to sit down to the pianoforte again.†
Chpt 2.9-10
- If it can be contrived to be at the Crown, papa, it will be very convenient for the horses.†
Chpt 2.11-12
- Would Jane but go, means were to be found, servants sent, friends contrived—no travelling difficulty allowed to exist; but still she had declined it!†
Chpt 2.15-16
- 'How could he contrive to come?†
Chpt 2.17-18
- —Excellently contrived, upon my word.†
Chpt 3.1-2
Definition:
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(contrived) unnatural seeming (due to careful planning)
or more rarely:
arranged (that something should happen)