contriver

1 All the acts for encouraging plantations of forest-trees are, I am told, extremely defective; which, with great submission, must have been owing to a defect of skill in the contrivers of them.

2 The argument gives us a contriver only and not a creator… Well,  so much for Leibniz and Paley.

3 Factions, jealousies, and fears together with the dangerous intrigues which the great carried on against each other, and which oft-times brought the heads of such contrivers to the block, kept the grandees apart.

4 Ah! how could noble Siegfried, or any else beware The trains of that vile treason, which, for the guiltless spread, Soon brought down death and ruin on each contriver's head?

5 He, too, had crept into the confidence of the revolutionary party by a series of deceptions, equally well contrived, and by the same contrivers who had put forward the diplomatist.

6 Though of a rude kind, they were perfect enough for the purpose required of them; while at the same time they gave evidence of great ingenuity on the part of the contriver.

7 But the contriver was not satisfied with his attempt to break the bones of the unfortunate person whom he thus entrapped.

8 I think there are as many kinds of gardening as poetry; your makers of parterres and flower-gardens are epigrammatists and sonneteers in this art; contrivers of bowers and grottoes, treillages, and cascades, are Romance writers.

9 He had two brothers and one sister, all of whom are thieves, the sister being the contriver of crime, they its executors.

10 A contriver of masks for the Court, Inigo Jones, was in this way tempted to build palaces, if one may say so, in mask-style.

11 Professor Ficker signals Guala as the real contriver of the régime of terror, and the man who acquired the influence imported the idea and directed the policy.

12 I held the project in the utmost abhorrence, and used every argument I was mistress of to induce its contrivers to abandon it.”

13 “I do not think we have far to look for the contrivers of the outrage,” Amuba said.

14 So declared the dealer in hog-meat, who seemed rather gratified that he no longer stood alone as a contriver of false alarms.

15 He was the contriver of what may be considered as the first hour clock that was made in Rome, and which measured time by a hand entirely moved by mechanism.

16 The fungibility of money can feel by turns sublime, magical, contrived.

17 He contrived a meeting with the president.

18 But the person who furnished the work to Curll had, by an elaborate device, provided against a charge which no one except its contriver could have foreseen.

19 On that day the-31- people of Boston rose against Andros and his government, but no hint is given us of the real contrivers of the revolution.

20 Lord Molesworth said he should be satisfied to see the contrivers of the scheme tied in sacks and thrown into the Thames.

1 创制者

architect

2 发明者

invent devise

3 设计者

planner composer projector devise artificer designer architect framer schemer deviser