Sentence example with the word 'contrives'

contrives

Last update: September 22, 2015


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What this is cannot easily be defined; it consists, perhaps, in the beauty of the atmosphere which Tennyson contrives to cast around his work, moulding it in the blue mystery of twilight, in the opaline haze of sunset: this atmosphere, suffused over his poetry with inestimable skill and with a tact very rarely at fault, produces an almost unfailing illusion or mirage of loveliness, so that, even where (as must sometimes be the case with every poet) the thought and the imagery have little value in themselves, the fictive aura of beauty broods over the otherwise undistinguished verse.   [Please select]

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Saint-Marceaux always contrives to endue it.   [Please select]

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In this way it contrives to dig itself a shallow pit.   [Please select]

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"But the Beauty contrives to keep him awake," said Storer.   [Please select]

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This every writer on things Himalayan contrives to drag into his composition.   [Please select]

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How much at home he always contrives to make himself in a family.   [Please select]

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Swift contrives to keep his book from end to end real, passionate, even intense.   [Please select]

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] To be present at the construction of the nest--to learn how the Mantis contrives to build so complex a structure--such was the main point of my researches.   [Please select]

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The clay stopper, the work of my fingers, is perforated with a round hole, differing in no wise from that which the Mason-bee contrives through her native mortar dome.   [Please select]

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