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  • They are neither well clothed nor well armed, they can't read, and they possess no ingenious metal contraptions.†   (source)
  • And when he introduced her to the ingenious design of their new bunk bed, she barely took notice.†   (source)
  • She wondered if Emma had found some kind of ingenious hiding place.†   (source)
  • You really think we've never had the ingenious thought of climbing the freaking walls?†   (source)
  • Then he devised an ingenious treasure hunt to ensure only Sophie would find it.†   (source)
  • He must do something brilliant, something absolutely ingenious.†   (source)
  • ... when Mother realized that after she's dead, she won't be able to tell me what to wear anymore, she came up with this ingenious postmortem system.†   (source)
  • Ellie's first thought was that she was looking at a hoax-an ingenious, skillful hoax, but a hoax nonetheless.†   (source)
  • My father, ever ingenious, found a way to trade our apartment for one a gentile friend had inside the ghetto, hoping the swap might provide better accommodations than any the Nazis would arrange.†   (source)
  • My brothers were generous, loyal, ingenious men, but they couldn't get together fifty thousand fixing motor scooters in Hasnapur.†   (source)
  • "Ingenious," whispers von Rumpel.†   (source)
  • A situation had now been reached in which whoever threw the next hit had to earn general approval by being ingenious or funny.†   (source)
  • This outburst does little but boost the boy's status in the eyes of his friends, who take to devising ingenious ways to irritate Mr. Curran without giving themselves away.†   (source)
  • While Kit resorted to ingenious tricks, Mercy possessed the patience.†   (source)
  • And that's pretty ingenious, to divert water from the gutter to her room.†   (source)
  • He came up with the ingenious idea of building a giant wooden horse with a hollow belly.†   (source)
  • Had he actually been searching for the ingenious lock on her magic—Linh Garan's prototype?†   (source)
  • ...he saw the first trap—a hundred-foot-wide crater ringed with boulders.
    Leo had to admit it was pretty ingenious. ...vat the size of a hot tub had been
    filled with bubbly dark liquid ...  suspended over the vat, an electric fan rotated in a circle, spreading the fumes across the forest. ... pressure sensitive...†   (source)
  • The hide was ingenious in design and interest had already been expressed in the manufacturing rights mostly by military representatives — but Artemis had resolved to sell the patent to a sporting-goods multinational.†   (source)
  • The insurgents were fighting among themselves, their ingenious plan to kill Americans now turned against them.†   (source)
  • The life rafts were ingenious things, packed into small bundles in the ship's hull.†   (source)
  • The subterfuges people have used to get their parents here—wow, pretty ingenious.†   (source)
  • Father hatched a plan, an ingenious way to get around the Nazi rules.†   (source)
  • Always a bit leery of the way Walsh viewed them—as cogs in his intricate machine—the players would later point to that playoff loss as the beginning of the end of their feeling for their ingenious coach.†   (source)
  • Few stories from Greek mythology capture the imagination like that of Daedalus and Icarus: the ingenious father's attempt to save his son from a tyrant as well as from his own invention (the labyrinth) by coming up with an even more marvelous creation; the solemn parental warning ignored in a burst of youthful exuberance; the fall from a great height; a father's terrible grief and guilt.†   (source)
  • Ingenious design!†   (source)
  • It seemed an ingenious plan.†   (source)
  • Franchising was an ingenious way to grow a new company in a new industry.†   (source)
  • A marvelous and sad invention, so roundabout, ingenious, human.†   (source)
  • It's ingenious.†   (source)
  • But then he always was ingenious.†   (source)
  • But Lorenzo Daza had an infinite capacity for assimilating humiliations, and he continued his ingenious strategies for arranging casual encounters with Juvenal Urbino, not realizing that it was Juvenal Urbino who went out of his way to let himself be encountered.†   (source)
  • Democritus the most ingenious toy in the world Sophie put all the typed pages from the unknown philosopher back into the cookie tin and put the lid on it.†   (source)
  • I thought it was quite ingenious of me to suggest sitting in on the chemistry course even after I'd changed over to Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • Hatsumomo could be ingenious in her devilishness.†   (source)
  • But the ingenious part is that the email is rewritten and a few bytes of source code are added.†   (source)
  • Ingenious, right?†   (source)
  • Mac ingeniously hid the transcribed version of the manuscript inside the binding of a number of notebooks he used for his studies.†   (source)
  • These gaieties were rather singular and ingenious affairs, sterilized dances, Mrs. Hexter irreverently dubbed them.†   (source)
  • There were no daring helicopter rescues, no tunnels, no ingenious plans to dress up as a guard and stroll out through the front door.†   (source)
  • The two authors were impressed by one ingenious effort: "Locomotives …. were rigged to pumps and set to work with all their might; and with such success that, in a week after the fire, about a third of the people of the inhabited portions of the city had water…."†   (source)
  • They were ingeniously constructed: double soles from shower shoes were bound together and then completely covered in pink and white cotton yarn crocheted into intricate designs.†   (source)
  • One of the things that Klin wanted to discover, in talking to Peter, was how someone with his condition makes sense of the world, so he and his colleagues devised an ingenious experiment.†   (source)
  • He had pulled one of the ingenious pranks for which Cal Tech students were justly famous, only it hadn't worked.†   (source)
  • A long strip of wood advertising Pears' soap ingeniously hides their ankles from view, for modesty's sake.†   (source)
  • Without satellites, without an air force, with even their primitive radar knocked out, they were ingenious enough to use plain old commercial flights to keep track of the Fifth Fleet's positions.†   (source)
  • It was a practical, cheap, and ingenious solution.†   (source)
  • He set about building the most ingenious fortress in the history of warfare.†   (source)
  • It was such an ingenious design.†   (source)
  • They brought in a lawn rolled up like a carpet, an ingenious invention of the gringos, and in less than a week we even had tall birches; water gushed from the singing fountains, and the Olympian statues once again stood tall and proud, free at last of so much bird droppings and neglect.†   (source)
  • 'That's a very ingenious explanation.†   (source)
  • He is a natural mimic, but also an ingenious creator of his own original material.†   (source)
  • Your father was an ingenious man.†   (source)
  • "Quite ingenious how it works, given all the time differences," he said.†   (source)
  • I had heard others do this before, and I enjoyed listening because sometimes they were quite clever and ingenious.†   (source)
  • Noah had never slid his hand further than my neck, had never found ingenious ways to get places I was trying zealously to guard.†   (source)
  • It's really ingenious.†   (source)
  • Heard friend Thayer preach two ingenious discourses from Jeremy [Jeremiah] loth, 6, and 7.†   (source)
  • There was a cabin, an ingenious dwelling tucked into a nook in the red sandstone, perilously close to the flash flood line.†   (source)
  • He had something in reserve, some ingenious product of his counselor's wits that would overwhelm their scheme.†   (source)
  • They were only ingenious half-humans, little better than savages; all living shut off from one another, with only clumsy words to link them.†   (source)
  • Whenever Skeedle grew too tired, they pulled the wagons over and secured the mules while David or Toby kept watch from inside via an ingenious device the Broadbrims installed in their best wagons.†   (source)
  • It was an ingenious idea thought up by someone long before Archie's time, someone who was wise enough ... to realize that an assigner could go off the deep end if there wasn't some kind of control.†   (source)
  • At least 100,000 Hutus were murdered, not a few, it seems, in ingeniously horrible ways.†   (source)
  • It was the forgotten delight of being held in rapt attention by the reins of the ingenious, the unexpected, the logical, the purposeful, the new-and of seeing it embodied in a performance of superlative artistry by a woman playing a character whose beauty of spirit matched her own physical perfection.†   (source)
  • Once I had ensnared myself in its ingenious trap, there was no way I could turn back.†   (source)
  • And that, believe me, is very hard with the Serbs, because they are very ingenious themselves, and they have a passion for martyrdom.†   (source)
  • "Tell Miss Anna," he wrote of his sister, "that I thought of collecting her a peck of Yankee finger nails to make her a sewing basket of as she is ingenious at such things but I feared I could not get them to her."†   (source)
  • He failed to disclose that for another client, he had once designed an ingenious cable-and-winch lift system to raise and lower a chandelier at will.†   (source)
  • I agree that to be "deep, solid, and ingenious, the executive power is more easily confined when it is ONE."†   (source)
  • It was an ingenious move and proved a boon to the small town on the southeastern corner of Lac Dinneshere.†   (source)
  • "Isn't that ingenious, how they speed the transfer of cargo," said La Fayette.†   (source)
  • How else do you suppose I think of such ingenious questions?†   (source)
  • His fighter was armed with Sidewinders, ingenious, single-minded rockets, heat-seekers.†   (source)
  • The green neon sign outside ingeniously depicted the face of an oscilloscope tube, over which flowed an ever-changing dance of Lissajous figures.†   (source)
  • Arriving back himself from the awful war with one eye missing and with a shattered kneecap—both wounds received at Chancellorsville—my great-grandfather unearthed the gold, and after the house once again became habitable, stashed it away in an ingeniously concealed compartment in the cellar.†   (source)
  • He had also supplied himself with an assortment of puzzles composed of metal rings and intersecting links and keys chained together, impossible for the rest of us, however patiently shown, to take apart; he had an almost childlike love of the ingenious.†   (source)
  • Left to her own devices, my mother, I suspect, would not have thought of such a beautiful, ingenious machine but would have given me a book.†   (source)
  • However, Peter Holmes was an ingenious man and good with tools, and he had contrived a tolerable substitute.†   (source)
  • Experience has clearly shown that the existing process of law cannot overcome systematic and ingenious discrimination.†   (source)
  • "His elaborate and ingenious explanation," said the World Herald, is "foolish nonsense …. a silly statement, which has disgusted the people."†   (source)
  • I had scarcely arrivedbefore I had earned the enmity, which was extraordinarily ingenious, of all my superiors and nearly all my co-workers.†   (source)
  • An ingenious theory, young man.†   (source)
  • They are an ingenious people,   (source)
    ingenious = inventive and skilled
  • Mrs. Penniman desired to represent the ingenious Mr. Townsend as the hero.   (source)
    ingenious = clever (inventive and skillful)
  • My husband had contrived a very ingenious sort of Spiritoscope….†   (source)
  • The Illuminati created a kind of ingenious map directing scientists to their sanctuary.†   (source)
  • But my control over your movements is more ingenious than that.†   (source)
  • C#81 CHAPTER 81 The subterranean space in which Mal'akh performed the Art was ingeniously hidden.†   (source)
  • Dylar is almost as ingenious as the microorganisms that ate the billowing cloud.†   (source)
  • It was ingenious, definitely, and it made sense to him.†   (source)
  • There's a certain black flag flown from a certain window How ingenious of Mama!†   (source)
  • Ingeniously concealed by overlapping walls, a narrow slit in the stone served as an exit.†   (source)
  • They claim the Grail legend—that of a chalice—is actually an ingeniously conceived allegory.†   (source)
  • I'm not a very ingenious person but I know how to break things down, how to separate and classify.†   (source)
  • Ingeniously hidden… but present nonetheless.†   (source)
  • She felt that Democritus's ideas had been so simple and yet so ingenious.†   (source)
  • First of all, Sophie got a question to think about: Why is Lego the most ingenious toy in the world?†   (source)
  • So shall we establish here and now that Hilde has an ingenious father?†   (source)
  • Sophie decided that Lego really could be called the most ingenious toy in the world.†   (source)
  • Ingeniously, the triangular result doubled as both a mirror and a shank.†   (source)
  • As I say, it was ingenious, even down to every move made by his own people against Cain.†   (source)
  • He made some seriously ingenious mechanical stuff.†   (source)
  • Second, through an ingenious method devised by Smith, they helped the horse stay in racing trim.†   (source)
  • In front of them lay the most ingenious and deadly fortress in military history.†   (source)
  • 'An ingenious device,' said Lin, frowning.†   (source)
  • International diplomatic efforts at peacemaking had been ingenious, even daring.†   (source)
  • "An ingenious device",' interrupted McAllister, obviously quoting.†   (source)
  • A beetle could not have been more laborious or more ingenious in the task of its destiny.†   (source)
  • It's an ingenious theory," grinned Stormgren.†   (source)
  • "Very ingenious, like all your theories," said Stormgren.†   (source)
  • The plan was an ingenious one, and it was quite possible that Karellen had been deceived.†   (source)
  • Your explanation, as usual, is much too ingenious to be true.†   (source)
  • Few men knew it existed …. and even fewer knew its awesome power or the ingenious way in which it had been hidden.†   (source)
  • Ingenious girl!†   (source)
  • "Yeah, very ingenious, Hermione."†   (source)
  • Wonderfully ingenious.†   (source)
  • Ingenious in every direction at once.†   (source)
  • …three schools compete in the tournament…… I'm guessing they submitted Potter's name under a fourth school, to make sure he was the only one in his category…… " "You seem to have given this a great deal of thought, Moody," said Karkaroff coldly, "and a very ingenious theory it is — though of course, I heard you recently got it into your head that one of your birthday presents contained a cunningly disguised basilisk egg, and smashed it to pieces before realizing it was a carriage clock.†   (source)
  • While Kroc traveled the country, spreading the word about Mc-Donald's, selling new franchises, his business partner, Harry J. Sonneborn, devised an ingenious strategy to ensure the chain's financial success and provide even more control of its franchisees.†   (source)
  • Ingenious, really.†   (source)
  • They were skilled metalworkers and inventors of ingenious mechanical devices, the secrets of which they carefully guarded.†   (source)
  • Ingenious, really.†   (source)
  • And as she stretched out on my bed with a silly smile, I remembered a minor scandal at our college dormitory when a fat, matronly-breasted senior, homely as a grandmother and a pious Religion major, and a tall, gawky freshman with a history of being deserted at an early hour in all sorts of ingenious ways by her blind dates, started seeing too much of each other.†   (source)
  • So ingenious was the design of these new apartment buildings, so intuitive their architecture, they could be built from a single page of specifications— regardless of which way the page was oriented!†   (source)
  • She shows him the transmitter in the attic: its double battery, its old-fashioned electrophone, the hand-machined antenna that can be raised and lowered along the chimney by an ingenious system of levers.†   (source)
  • "Ingenious man," Minos said.†   (source)
  • "How ingenious," said Kate de Vries.†   (source)
  • But of course,' he answered his own question, 'Rosmerta saw me leaving, she tipped you off using your ingenious coins, I'm sure …'†   (source)
  • The next day, Inmate 37 spoke privately to the administrator and suggested a plan—a bold, ingenious scheme that would give them both exactly what they wanted.†   (source)
  • Very ingenious.†   (source)
  • 'Ingenious,' said Dumbledore.†   (source)
  • "Ingenious," said Dumbledore.†   (source)
  • Exactly as her brother had predicted, she had found her way through the darkness that night, and every day since—thanks to an ingeniously simple guidance system that her brother had let her discover for herself.†   (source)
  • "This is… ingenious," he whispered.†   (source)
  • The legend, as Langdon recalled, never explained exactly what was supposed to be inside the Masonic Pyramid—whether it was ancient texts, occult writings, scientific revelations, or something far more mysterious—but the legend did say that the precious information inside was ingeniously encoded …. and understandable only to the most enlightened souls.†   (source)
  • Teabing had displayed ingenious precision in formulating a plan that protected his innocence at every turn.†   (source)
  • Utterly ingenious!†   (source)
  • In an ingenious way he used the language of his time to give the old war cries a totally new and broader content.†   (source)
  • Even so, the Teacher could not help but suspect that the solution would be ingeniously clean and simple—"a knight a pope interred."†   (source)
  • But he must also be quite ingenious.†   (source)
  • Each had told Silas the exact same thing—that the keystone was ingeniously hidden at a precise location inside one of Paris's ancient churches—the Eglise de Saint-Sulpice.†   (source)
  • There was only one question today, but it was even dumber than the previous three: Why is Lego the most ingenious toy in the world?†   (source)
  • Working in concert with France's King Philippe IV, the Pope devised an ingeniously planned sting operation to quash the Templars and seize their treasure, thus taking control of the secrets held over the Vatican.†   (source)
  • Descartes made a point of the fact that ingenious inventions of that kind were actually assembled very simply from a relatively small number of parts compared with the vast number of bones, muscles, nerves, veins, and arteries that the human and the animal body consists of.†   (source)
  • Many great minds in history had invented cryptologic solutions to the challenge of data protection: Julius Caesar devised a code-writing scheme called the Caesar Box; Mary, Queen of Scots created a transposition cipher and sent secret communiqués from prison; and the brilliant Arab scientist Abu Yusuf Ismail al-Kindi protected his secrets with an ingeniously conceived polyalphabetic substitution cipher.†   (source)
  • So did Saint Olaf and Charlemagne, to say nothing of Romeo and Juliet, Joan of Arc, Ivanhoe, the Pied Piper of Hamelin, and many mighty princes and majestic kings, chivalrous knights and fair damsels, anonymous stained-glass window makers and ingenious organ builders.†   (source)
  • An ingeniously contrived philosophical system such as this may seem impressive, but it is pure fantasy.†   (source)
  • In spite of the fact that she could not see him, Ursula analyzed the clicking of his foreman's boots and was surprised at the unbridgeable distance that separated him from the family, even from the twin brother with whom he had played ingenious games of confusion in childhood and with whom he no longer had any traits in common.†   (source)
  • She looked at some improbable "work stations" with ingenious cabinets for storing computers and keyboards.†   (source)
  • Ingenious, wouldn't you say?'†   (source)
  • He built ingenious training devices out of whatever was lying around, brewed up homemade liniments, prepared his horses in exactly the way they said he shouldn't.†   (source)
  • …colors reciting Italian arias, and a hen who laid a hundred golden eggs to the sound of a tambourine, and a trained monkey who read minds, and the multi-use machine that could be used at the same time to sew on buttons and reduce fevers, and the apparatus to make a person forget his bad memories, and a poultice to lose time, and a thousand more inventions so ingenious and unusual that Jose Arcadio Buendia must have wanted to invent a memory machine so that he could remember them all.†   (source)
  • It was Cynthia who had devised the spell that allowed the soldiers' ordinary weapons to shoot the tracer bolts of light, an ingenious mixture of enchanted phosphoroil that was dabbed on the front of each bow before the simulations.†   (source)
  • His guildmaster, the Pasha Pook, possessed a wonderful collection of rubies — a dozen, at least — whose facets were so ingeniously cut that they seemed to cast an almost hypnotic spell on anyone who viewed them.†   (source)
  • The people who want to amend the Constitution before it is established must stop if they agree with the following observations of a writer equally solid and ingenious.'†   (source)
  • Ingenious.†   (source)
  • A blackened fire-hollow near the entrance, empty now, showed an ingenious draught-hole drilled to the outer air.†   (source)
  • She replied saying, "I begin to look upon you as a very dangerous man …. a most ingenious and agreeable flatterer."†   (source)
  • She looked at the spectacle of the most ingenious mining machinery she had ever seen, then at the trail where the plodding hoofs and swaying shapes of mules provided the most ancient form of transportation.†   (source)
  • It's an ingenious system," Rafi stated.†   (source)
  • Explored our far-flung underground world in an endless wargame of leaps onto nothing, ingenious twists into freedom or new perplexity, quick whispered plottings with invisible friends, wild cackles when vengeance was mine.†   (source)
  • Colonel Cathcart pledged eternal gratitude to Colonel Korn for the ingenious moves he devised and was furious with him afterward when he realized they might not work.†   (source)
  • But even with all these ingenious methods, one of the best ways was also the easiest: getting sent to the prison hospital.†   (source)
  • Work on the mausoleum began soon after Clara's death, but it took almost two years to complete because I kept adding costly new details: tombstones with Gothic lettering in gold, a glass cupola to let the sunlight in, and an ingenious apparatus copied from the Roman fountains that allows a small interior garden, which I planted with roses and camellias, the favorite flowers of the two sisters who had won my heart, to be watered in perpetuity.†   (source)
  • They came on foot and in the baskets that serve traditionally as stretchers -- one man, near death, was brought encased in a bag, ingeniously strapped to a platform, itself ingeniously attached to the back of a bicycle.†   (source)
  • But the Japanese—even as their ingenious fortifications crumbled or were scorched hollow—were not quite done with their own desperate resolve.†   (source)
  • "He is ingenious," Adams wrote.†   (source)
  • Almost on cue, a nursing mother padded past holding an infant in black rags, and Yossarian wanted to smash her too, because she reminded him of the barefoot boy in the thin shirt and thin, tattered trousers and of all the shivering, stupefying misery in a world that never yet had provided enough heat and food and justice for all but an ingenious and unscrupulous handful.†   (source)
  • Kathy was in charge of communications, and he had thought of ingenious ways for us to pass information.†   (source)
  • Knowing he wouldn't be able to pull that off twice, Smith tried his most ingenious move: hiding in plain sight.†   (source)
  • It had taken place at the Treadstone sterile house on New York's 71st Street, an ingenious trap mounted by Conklin, which was aborted by Webb's hysterical efforts to survive and, oddly enough, the presence of Carlos the Jackal.†   (source)
  • How he wished he had the time and "tranquility of mind" for "these elegant and ingenious arts of painting, sculpture, statuary, architecture, and music."†   (source)
  • And the respect and affection he felt for Rush were abundantly apparent, even in the ways Adams would address him : "Honored and Learned Sir," "My dear Philosopher and Friend," "My Sensible and Humorous Friend," "Learned, Ingenious, Benevolent, Beneficient Old Friend of 1774," "My Dear Old Friend."†   (source)
  • His whole life was an ingenious toggle, a belated but painstaking shoring up against last year's ruin, destructions in no way his own but his to repair.†   (source)
  • They could smile at themselves as quickly as at anything else, and yet, however sunny their dispositions, their minds raced smoothly on, ingenious and just.†   (source)
  • This bill will establish a simple, uniform standard which cannot be used, however ingenious the effort, to flout our Constitution.†   (source)
  • The doctor must have waited a long time to come face to face with Sophie and her children, hoping to perpetrate his ingenious deed.†   (source)
  • Very ingenious.†   (source)
  • That transfer in the tunnel was ingenious, but when the first car ceased to react it gave the plan away and I soon located you again.†   (source)
  • I have devised for my own private amusement the most ingenious ways of carrying out a murder.†   (source)
  • The Russian technique for infecting water supplies was particularly ingenious.†   (source)
  • Some of the new developments are most ingenious.†   (source)
  • Very interesting and ingenious, but why tell me all this?†   (source)
  • I don't recall what ingenious person made this collection, but it certainly was a whopper.†   (source)
  • And it was at the bottom of the pile-a very ingenious hiding-place.†   (source)
  • A third ingenious punishment might possibly have been inflicted in the market-place below you.†   (source)
  • Not sighs and laughter, not circling and ingenious phrases; not Rhoda's strange communications when she looks past us, over our shoulders; nor Jinny's pirouetting, all of a piece, limbs and body.†   (source)
  • One summer the Friar, who did not make long journeys now that he had grown large in girth, decided that he would like company,— someone to admire his fine garden, his ingenious kitchen, his airy loggia with its rugs and water jars, where he meditated and took his after-dinner siesta.†   (source)
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