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Round, over, and under them we go: often progress seems impossible; but Bennen, ever in advance, and perched like a bird on some projecting crag, contrives to find a way.

He contrives and finishes a canoe by the help of a fellow-servant, and puts to sea at a venture.

He always contrives to be sick at the least cross!

If there is a sexual bit to be found in a story, Johnson usually contrives to slip it in.

The later, whimsical novels of Elmore Leonard have been all too put-downable, but Soderbergh contrives the perfect voice for Leonard's prose--laid-back and grooving when it needs to be, but also taut, with the eerie foreboding of violence about to erupt.

Covetous of Austin Powers' lack of inhibition, he contrives to go back in time--to 1969, when both he and Powers were cryogenically frozen--and steal the source of the secret agent's appeal: his life force, or "mojo.

When all the heavyweight bad guys are dead or in jail (and his celebrity endorsements dry up), he contrives to have one of his old nemeses, Casanova Frankenstein (Geoffrey Rush) released from the insane asylum--a bad move, as it turns out, since Amazing has got rusty and Frankenstein has had plenty of time to hatch a diabolical scheme.

Then seizing it in its jaws, and fixing its hind legs firmly as a pivot, it contrives to turn round and round, and so to strain the fibres of the fruit-stalk until they snap; it then patiently backs down the stem.

This is no other than a bat of monstrous size, that sucks the blood from men and cattle, sometimes even till they die; knowing, by instinct, that the person they intend to attack is in a sound slumber, they generally alight near the feet, where, while the creature continues fanning with his enormous wings, which keeps one cool, he bites a piece out of the tip of the great toe, so very small indeed, that the head of a pin could scarcely be received into the wound, which is consequently not painful; yet, through this orifice, he contrives to suck the blood, until he is obliged to disgorge.

Chance, millions of chances, give him power, and all men as if by agreement co-operate to confirm that power.


Chance forms the characters of the rulers of France, who submit to him; chance forms the character of Paul I of Russia who recognizes his government; chance contrives a plot against him which not only fails to harm him but confirms his power.


Chance puts the Duc d'Enghien in his hands and unexpectedly causes him to kill him-thereby convincing the mob more forcibly than in any other way that he had the right, since he had the might.


Chance contrives that though he directs all his efforts to prepare an expedition against England (which would inevitably have ruined him) he never carries out that intention, but unexpectedly falls upon Mack and the Austrians, who surrender without a battle.


Chance and genius give him the victory at Austerlitz; and by chance all men, not only the French but all Europe-except England which does not take part in the events about to happen-despite their former horror and detestation of his crimes, now recognize his authority, the title he has given himself, and his ideal of grandeur and glory, which seems excellent and reasonable to them all.


That is, he deliberately contrives to deceive and impose upon himself in a matter which he knew to be of the utmost importance.

But now some star, sinister to our pray'rs; Contrives new schemes, and calls you from affairs.

He has made excellent use of a table with a carpet, and the key of a closet; with these two implements, which would perhaps have been over-looked by an ordinary writer, he contrives the most natural perplexities (allowing only the use of these houshold goods in poetry) that ever were represented on a stage.

The Sovereign must esteem what all admire, Bromley and Baginton shall both raise higher, Fate oft contrives magnificence by fire. [Footnote 1: The ancient seat of the Bromleys in Warwickshire.] [Footnote 2: A famous Library burnt there.] [Footnote 3: Vide History of Warwickshire.] * * * * * ELKANAH SETTLE, Son of Joseph Settle of Dunstable in Bedfordshire, was born there; and in the 18th year of his age, 1666, was entered commoner of Trinity College, Oxon, and put under the tuition of Mr. Abraham Champion, fellow of that house; but he quitted the university without taking any degree, and came to London[1], where he addicted himself to the study of poetry, in which he lived to make no inconsiderable figure.

You are to know, my dear Harry, that with all [Page 12] my conquetry I am as much in love as yourself, and with almost as little prospect of success: this odious money is absolutely the bane of us true lovers, and always contrives to stand in our way.

And now a matter of some difficulty arose; and this was how his lordship himself should be conveyed; for though in stage-coaches, where passengers are properly considered as so much luggage, the ingenious coachman stows half a dozen with perfect ease into the place of four; for well he contrives that the fat hostess, or well-fed alderman, may take up no more room than the slim miss, or taper master; it being the nature of guts, when well squeezed, to give way, and to lie in a narrow compass; yet in these vehicles, which are called, for distinction's sake, gentlemen's coaches, though they are often larger than the others, this method of packing is never attempted.

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