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  • You'll have to fabricate a believable story and get them trust you.
    fabricate = make up something false
  • Let's assume the story you gave me is true, though I'd bet my pension a good deal of it is either fabricated or omitted.   (source)
    fabricated = made up (not true)
  • The document was discredited as a fabrication but still it spread, fueling anti-Semitism in the decades before World War II.   (source)
    fabrication = something that was made up (not true)
  • It was much the same as the way he left his family in Stuttgart, under a veil of fabricated loyalty.   (source)
    fabricated = made up (not true)
  • To say my thoughts aloud would be tipping off the audience that the romance has been fabricated to play on their sympathies and that would result in no food at all.   (source)
  • There's one kid Connor speaks to who actually listens and can tell the truth from the fabrications.   (source)
    fabrications = things that are made up (not true)
  • "They've been stirring people up by fabricating stories like that for years," Peter said.   (source)
    fabricating = making up (something that is not true)
  • I'm trying to think of what I can say to reassure her, trying to fabricate a lie, but then, miracle of miracles, she just lies back down in bed and closes her eyes.   (source)
    fabricate = make up
  • So tricky a piece of work would never be entrusted to a single person: on the other hand, to turn it over to a committee would be to admit openly that an act of fabrication was taking place.   (source)
    fabrication = something that was made up (not true)
  • Because, you see, if the man were an invention-a fabrication-how much easier to make him disappear!   (source)
    fabrication = something that was made up (not real)
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  • This extraordinary story probably a fabrication.   (source)
    fabrication = something that was made up (not true)
  • And now the look on Alex's face—the little, crooked smile that used to creep onto Rob's face whenever he'd successfully gotten an extension from one of his teachers for some completely fabricated reason—makes me want to smack him.   (source)
    fabricated = made up something false
  • Winters has been getting her freak on with Mr. Shaw, and how I got off without a detention, because I promised her I would destroy a camera-phone pic of one of her love sessions in Shaw's office (fabricated, obviously—there's no way I'd ever hang on to evidence of their coupling, much less in high-digital format).   (source)
    fabricated = made up (not true)
  • Probably a fabrication!   (source)
    fabrication = something that was made up (not true)
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  • The company fabricates plastic chairs.
    fabricates = makes or manufactures
  • AN AESTHETIC VOYAGER WHOSE HOME IS THE ROAD…… Immediately below this manifesto squats the stove, fabricated from a rusty oil drum.   (source)
    fabricated = made
  • Twenty men worked during the day shift producing replacement parts for mine machinery and fabricating a variety of ductwork and support structures.   (source)
    fabricating = making or manufacturing
  • In 1994, Juan Arcega, Cristian's father, traveled to the United States and found work in Arizona fabricating mobile storage containers.   (source)
  • Some colleges had machine shops and could custom-fabricate parts.   (source)
    fabricate = make or manufacture
  • Juan had gotten a job as a welder at a company that fabricated metal ramps for disabled people.   (source)
    fabricated = made or manufactured
  • She fabricates art and sculptures of various metals.
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  • What fabrications they are, mothers.†   (source)
  • But why would you fabricate such a ridiculous story?†   (source)
  • It was a softball, but I'd gotten so used to talking about my budding interest in antitrust litigation (an interest that was at least a little fabricated) that I was laughably unprepared.†   (source)
  • Their sky had to have been—and still was—fabricated.†   (source)
  • They fabricated all kinds of charges.†   (source)
  • Madame Manec brings her omelets, cassoulet, brochettes of fish, fabricating miracles out of ration tickets and the dregs of her cupboards, but Marie-Laure refuses to eat.†   (source)
  • Even being lied to constantly, though hardly like love, was sustained attention; he must care about her to fabricate so elaborately and over such a long stretch of time.†   (source)
  • Amazing what they can fabricate these days.†   (source)
  • No names have been changed, no characters invented, no events fabricated.†   (source)
  • " A pang of guilt hits me since I've fabricated said mission.†   (source)
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  • I used to fabricate reasons to come back here all the time, and Hana would show up at some point in the early afternoon and knock on the door five times, really soft.†   (source)
  • Mother's fabrication is so elaborate I can hardly describe it.†   (source)
  • Alice had a little bit too much fun fabricating evidence.†   (source)
  • The dates and places were correct; his description of his boyhood as a typical country idyll was most certainly a fabrication.†   (source)
  • We start at the end of the line, the fabricating room.†   (source)
  • She is becoming a ghostly outline, a hollow shell, that he feels compelled to fill with bogus details and fabricated character traits, as though false memories are better than none at all.†   (source)
  • He watched his mother, spoke to her in half -words, sensible-sounding fragments that were mainly fabricated.†   (source)
  • But don't fabricate some story out of a misguided desire to pacify or impress me."†   (source)
  • Fabricated odors: deodorant and old shoes and starchy foods, stale mattresses.†   (source)
  • Thus the conversion from pristine sadism to fabricated hatred, to fraudulent love.†   (source)
  • We grew suspicious, for a stranger in our midst probably meant a SIM plant with a fabricated name.†   (source)
  • He declared the allegations unfounded and said that the documentation referred to was fabricated.†   (source)
  • I fabricated another smile.†   (source)
  • He had thought that in the handful of hours since he had left her, Rhunon would only have had enough time to fabricate a plain hilt and crossguard for the sword, and maybe a simple wooden scabbard.†   (source)
  • But the big question, and source of heartache, was what to do with his much-loved memorabilia-the two huge boxes heavy with books and maps, yellowing letters, song lyrics, poems, and unusual souvenirs (suspenders and a belt fabricated from the skins of Nevada rattlers he himself had slain; an erotic netsuke bought in Kyoto; a petrified dwarf tree, also from Japan; the foot of an Alaskan bear).†   (source)
  • So he was more than just a parental fabrication meant to scare kids away from abandoned mine shafts?†   (source)
  • WorldCom and Global Crossing fabricated billions of dollars in revenues to pump up their stock prices.†   (source)
  • Don't try to tell us that this missile is some kind of fabrication—even if we had wanted to do such a foolish thing, we wouldn't have had the time.†   (source)
  • Some were in so far over their heads that they resorted to invention, fabricating preposterous stories or quotations out of thin air.†   (source)
  • Everything you've told me is a fabrication."†   (source)
  • Nothing has been contrived, dramatized, or fabricated.†   (source)
  • However he responded, it could not have fulfilled the rescue fantasy I had fabricated.†   (source)
  • It was no effort for him to believe that the misery his granddaughter reported was a Marxist fabrication.†   (source)
  • I think there's just too much evidence to fabricate.†   (source)
  • Of course we here on earth (planet number one, the planet of inexperience) can only fabricate vague fantasies of what will happen to man on those other planets.†   (source)
  • I am fabricating this for you, like a storyteller would.†   (source)
  • You know you'll be charged a hundred and fifty dollars for an emergency room visit, even a fabricated one.†   (source)
  • Ian slinked to the stand, no doubt primed and ready to fabricate another trip down memory lane.†   (source)
  • Given its anticipated short lifespan, it was hastily fabricated.†   (source)
  • But the words of the others were stronger than the strength of philanthropic dollars, deeper than shafts sunk in the earth for oil and gold, more awe-inspiring than the miracles fabricated in scientific laboratories.†   (source)
  • A more impudent, false, and atrocious proclamation was never fabricated by the hands of man.†   (source)
  • The errors in this book that I know of are omissions, not fabrications, intended to spare people who have enough pain in their lives, a little more.†   (source)
  • For fifteen years, like thousands of other truck drivers, he'd kept two logs, one telling the truth about driving times, mileage, rest-overs and all and the other, fabricated specially for situations like this, showing he'd stuck by all the legal limits.†   (source)
  • Erroneously thought to be nicknamed "John-John"—that name was fabricated by the press—John Jr. attended college at Brown and then went on to the New York University School of Law, which eventually led to a short stint in the Manhattan district attorney's office.†   (source)
  • He used words the way an artist used a palette and he fabricated stories of such color and simplicity a reader was drawn in from the first page.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, the government cannot suppress journalists, no matter how reckless or irresponsible they become with conjecture and fabrication.†   (source)
  • The duchesses and diplomats fabricated as much as laborers in a tavern.†   (source)
  • "I found it in a special box," I say, fabricating rapidly.†   (source)
  • Drizzt eyed the barbarian suspiciously and wondered just how deep ran Wulfgar's ability to fabricate a lie on demand.†   (source)
  • And steel was a problem—buying it, fabricating it, and above all moving it through meander of tunnels to new catapult site.†   (source)
  • Standard makes injectors and other parts for thousands of different makes and models of car, fabricating and shipping in small batches; Luke sometimes needs to switch the type of product he's making several times in a shift.†   (source)
  • Inwardly, she reviewed the elements of her fabricated curriculum vitae.†   (source)
  • When you are ready, I shall make arrangements to have a pre-fabricated two-bedroom house delivered at the float at the end of the inlet.†   (source)
  • All that is a simple fabrication.†   (source)
  • So he fabricated.†   (source)
  • Only this afternoon, Police Commissioner Crabbe had inquired about a routine blackmail case, and simply because he'd mispronounced a name, Powell had been inspired to fabricate a dramatic account involving a make-believe crime, a daring midnight raid, and the heroism of an imaginary Lieutenant Kopenick.†   (source)
  • Edward had fabricated a term paper to give himself an excuse to stay indoors during the day.†   (source)
  • The room had more Illuminati significance than any room Langdon could have fabricated in his mind.†   (source)
  • Whether it's a species-jumping mutation or a deliberate fabrication is anybody's guess.†   (source)
  • Possibly nobody ever talked like that in real life, it was all a fabrication from the beginning.†   (source)
  • But the others lost their lives defending me on a mission I fabricated.†   (source)
  • Sophie, every faith in the world is based on fabrication.†   (source)
  • Laura could be fabricating, I told myself.†   (source)
  • But you told me the New Testament is based on fabrications.†   (source)
  • The story he fabricated and rehearsed in his head so many times suddenly eludes him.†   (source)
  • How do we know that you're not just fabricating this story?†   (source)
  • But I suspect he'd know it was a fabrication.†   (source)
  • Then her daughter was locked up in a mental hospital on the basis of a fabricated diagnosis.†   (source)
  • Either I fabricated my interview with Patch, or I drove to Bo's Arcade.†   (source)
  • I won-der what Thomas Hunter is being paid to kidnap and fabricate all of these tales.†   (source)
  • It had been explained to him that the Salander report from 1991 had been fabricated.†   (source)
  • You can point to the alleged miracles of the Bible, or any other religious text, but they are nothing but old stories fabricated by man and then exaggerated over time.†   (source)
  • Bound by an iron principle of self-love, she would stay out longer in the darkness, wrapping herself in some fabricated misfortune, so that the general relief when she appeared would be all the more intense, and all the attention would be hers.†   (source)
  • Convinced that no such videotape existed and that IBP had fabricated the entire story in order to deny him medical treatment, Kevin Wilson sued the company for slander.†   (source)
  • I learned quickly, however, what I was expected to do with the doll: rock it, fabricate storied situations around it, even sleep with it.†   (source)
  • He should have been pleased by his success with these verbal fabrications, but instead he was depressed by it.†   (source)
  • The media craved apocalyptic headlines, and self-proclaimed "cult specialists" were still cashing in on millennium hype with fabricated stories that the Illuminati were alive and well and organizing their New World Order.†   (source)
  • I found my dad alone, nursing a beer at a table, so I pulled up a chair and began fabricating stories about my day while toweling off my face with napkins.†   (source)
  • In 1967 IBP opened a large plant in Dakota City, Nebraska, that not only slaughtered cattle but also "fabricated" them into smaller cuts of meat — into primals (chucks, loins, ribs, rounds) and subprimals (such as chuck rolls).†   (source)
  • Questioned about rumours that Miss Chase had run away from home and had been located in curious circumstances at the Sunnyside Beach Amusement Park, Mr. Griffen said he did not know who was responsible for these malicious fabrications but he would make it his business to find out.†   (source)
  • The Crake they're praising is his fabrication, a fabrication not unmixed with spite: Crake was against the notion of God, or of gods of any kind, and would surely be disgusted by the spectacle of his own gradual deification.†   (source)
  • Their stuffed comfort was narcotic and had produced recollections and fabrications of hallucinations.†   (source)
  • The scrolls highlight glaring historical discrepancies and fabrications, clearly confirming that the modern Bible was compiled and edited by men who possessed a political agenda—to promote the divinity of the man Jesus Christ and use His influence to solidify their own power base.†   (source)
  • It was so obviously fabricated.†   (source)
  • He'd come out of Iraq after supposedly encountering a kind of BoneMan in the desert, which could easily be a fabrication built upon his own obsession.†   (source)
  • When an exasperated James Duane told Adams it seemed "a machine for the fabrication of independence," Adams replied that he thought it "independence itself."†   (source)
  • The anger was what I wanted to hear—false, fabricated evidence that he cared, a dubious gift from my subconscious.†   (source)
  • The women do great two-handed pump shakes, fabricated words jumping out of their mouths, trance utterance—they're singing of things outside the known deliriums.†   (source)
  • It is almost entirely fabricated.†   (source)
  • Little by little he remembered fewer and fewer of the details, until finally he had to imagine them, even fabricate them, guess what they must have been.†   (source)
  • He thought about the sensitives, preparing for psychic war, and he thought about the penitentes, men in black hoods dragging heavy wooden crosses through the desert, a hundred years ago, or fifty years, and lashing themselves with sisal and hemp, all that Sister Edgarish stuff, and speaking fabricated words—the maunder of roaming holy men.†   (source)
  • Ultimately, when Snyder was pressed on his figure of 3 million homeless, he admitted that it was a fabrication.†   (source)
  • The letter in the Massachusetts Spy—a letter quoted repeatedly—was very likely a fake, fabricated as propaganda.†   (source)
  • If nothing else, his fabrications at church and at school over his nonexistent: grades confirmed what he'd already figured: he can't take everything pass/fail ever again.†   (source)
  • Powell gives his name as Lewis Payne and fabricates an elaborate story, saying that he has come to Mary Surratt's at her behest, in order to dig a ditch for her in the morning.†   (source)
  • They had talked about Seth Hubbard, with Lucien throwing in all the facts, gossip, fabrications, speculations, and rumors that had been roaring through Clanton during the past six months.†   (source)
  • Steel, glass, textile, cement, metal fabrication, breweries, smelting-there were dozens of major production facilities.†   (source)
  • The deportation of a million Lithuanians, the murder of hundreds of thousands of Poles, the liquidation of the Crimean Tatars remain in our memory, but no photographic documentation exists; sooner or later they will therefore be proclaimed as fabrications.†   (source)
  • With this view they will fabricate reports of accommodation with France—for this end they are constantly preaching up the improbability of a war with that nation, and some of the base traitors have even declared that in the event of war they will join France.†   (source)
  • Officials from the Japanese Sumo Association typically dismiss any such charges as fabrications by disgruntled former wrestlers.†   (source)
  • The solution was a highly sophisticated scheme whereby the fortifications would be fabricated elsewhere out of sight, then, with massed manpower and oxen, hauled, along with the heavy cannon, to the Heights of Dorchester, where all would have to be in place and ready for action before daylight.†   (source)
  • They were honeymooners still, shy but eager, and Marvin in his Brooklyn-bornness, his religion of skeptical response—he was only now beginning to see how hard it was to persist in the sentimental myth, after all these years, of their dissimilarity, a thing he'd fabricated out of her accent and complexion.†   (source)
  • For the first time, he'd awakened with a compulsion to treat this dream of Bangkok, this lucid fabrication in his mind, as real.†   (source)
  • Boys would replace their fathers in the foundries or fabrication mills, and girls would marry these boys.†   (source)
  • The enormous engine fabricated by the British Parliament for battering down all the rights and liberties of America, I mean the Stamp Act, has raised and spread through the whole continent a spirit that will be recorded to our honor, with all future generations.†   (source)
  • This symmetrical compositionthe same motif appears at the beginning and at the endmay seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agree, but only on condition that you refrain from reading such notions as fictive, fabricated, and untrue to life into the word novelistic.†   (source)
  • Is that the same Gunnar Björck who my client claims worked with Doctor Teleborian to fabricate the forensic psychiatric report about her in 1991?†   (source)
  • Now you're dreaming that you live in a world you've fabricated and are being chased by men with ill intent.†   (source)
  • To Maria Cosway he had described how "sublime" it was high on his mountaintop at Monticello "to look down into the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet!"†   (source)
  • I have never even heard of a case in which the prosecutor's chief witness is arrested during a court in session, or of a convincing argument turning out to be an utter fabrication.†   (source)
  • If Teeleh was stupid enough to think he'd fall for such a ridiculous fabrication, he was much less an opponent than Michal had suggested.†   (source)
  • From his tax returns it was clear that he made good money, but his clients were for the most part corporations with home offices in Switzerland or Liechtenstein, so it was not easy to prove that his work was a fabrication.†   (source)
  • He felt as though he stood in an open doorway on the edge of a vast expanse, bursting with raw emotion that was fabricated in colors and sights and sounds and smells, blasting into his face like a gale.†   (source)
  • Nor did she fabricate something or distort anything important; it is easy to substantiate nearly everything she told Nathan that evening.†   (source)
  • "It's a product of the war, son," said this engineer who had helped fabricate such naval behemoths as the aircraft carriers Yorktown and Enterprise, "everything in this country has become richer and richer.†   (source)
  • She realized how it undermined her credibility in other matters when she now was forced out of conscience to admit that all that stuff about her father was a simple fabrication.†   (source)
  • With anxiety she hesitated, then resumed, spinning out another of her lies, impelled forward like a splinter bobbingly afloat upon a rushing stream of fabrication and falsehood.†   (source)
  • But there it was— a fabrication, a wretched lie, another fantasy served up to provide a frail barrier, a hopeless and crumbly line of defense between those she cared for, like myself, and her smothering guilt.†   (source)
  • She knew, in the light of Floss's detestation of homosexuality, what would happen to her if such a scandal were fabricated, and suddenly felt—as had all her fellow trusty prisoners smothering in their fear-drenched limbo—the phantom needle squirting death into the center of her heart.†   (source)
  • Just before Pearl Harbor—Mr. Field went on in his quiet instructive tone—the Federal government opened bidding among fabricators of molded plastic for the manufacture of this dinky object, a bare two inches long, irregular in outline and containing at one end a squiggly bulge which had to fit into a similarly shaped aperture with absolute precision.†   (source)
  • The fabricator had, on this item, allowed himself the luxury of a little extra material.†   (source)
  • "Continue thy story," Marty said to Andres; using the term story as you would say lie, falsehood, or fabrication.†   (source)
  • After fifteen months in Pittsburgh he moved on to Dayton where he got employment at a boiler factory engaged in the fabrication of war materials.†   (source)
  • Only Mrs Davidson, whose statement, I suspected, was a deliberate fabrication uttered with the object of accounting for the missing pompon, which, of course, she cut from her own dress to replace the one missing on her husband's costume.†   (source)
  • But the real world is already created, and if your fabrication doesn't correspond, then even if you feel noble and insist on there being something better than what people call reality, that better something needn't try to exceed what, in its actuality, since we know it so little, may be very surprising.†   (source)
  • It was still being fabricated.†   (source)
  • Anne Stanton: the brown-toned, golden-lighted face, not as dark as Adam's, with a hint of the positive structure beneath the skin, which was drawn over the bone with something, a suggestion, of the tension which was in Adam's face, as though the fabricator of the job hadn't wanted to waste any material in softnesses and slacknesses and had stylized the product pretty cleanly.†   (source)
  • "I was saying to Steve last night, 'It wouldn't surprise me if your papa would come rolling in at any minute now'—I just had a feeling, I don't know what you'd call it," she said, her face plucked inward by the sudden fabrication of legend, "but it's pretty strange when you come to think of it.†   (source)
  • Yet you promise me, and then fabricate this tale of a telegram.†   (source)
  • It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a purpose.†   (source)
  • And so infatuated was Clyde by this picture of herself and the wonderful Keary that he accepted all of her petty fabrications as truth.†   (source)
  • Cleve was telling this fabrication in a matter-of-fact way, growing a little less frank as he proceeded, and he paused while he lifted sand and let it drift through his fingers, watching it curiously.†   (source)
  • Looking back on the past six months, Margaret realised the chaotic nature of our daily life, and its difference from the orderly sequence that has been fabricated by historians.†   (source)
  • And yet we are not fabricating tales here, but are keeping exactly to our prosaic hero's personal experience— knowledge of which has been granted to us in ways that, to be sure, elude all investigation, but that plainly prove that under certain circumstances stupor can take on such character and instill such feelings.†   (source)
  • The whole thing is, of course, an absolute fabrication, though when he spoke of Nina Alexandrovna he wept!†   (source)
  • But Isabelle strung the names into a fabrication of gayety that would have dazzled a Viennese nobleman.†   (source)
  • The truth about his remarkable fabrications, however, had not become known to Castleton, solely because of the Englishman's obtuseness.†   (source)
  • Wherefore believe that she would enjoy down there with Forcheville or with other men intoxicating pleasures which she had never known with him, and which his jealousy alone had fabricated in all their elements?†   (source)
  • The general argued that it was only a whim of Aglaya's; and that, had not Prince S. unfortunately made that remark, which had confused the child and made her blush, she never would have said what she did; and that he was sure Aglaya knew well that anything she might have heard of the prince and Nastasia Philipovna was merely the fabrication of malicious tongues, and that the woman was going to marry Rogojin.†   (source)
  • My father spoke to him of it again, as often as we met him, and tortured him with questions, but it was labour in vain: like that scholarly swindler who devoted to the fabrication of forged palimpsests a wealth of skill and knowledge and industry the hundredth part of which would have sufficed to establish him in a more lucrative—but an honourable occupation, M. Legrandin, had we insisted further, would in the end have constructed a whole system of ethics, and a celestial geography of…†   (source)
  • …were not free to make the least alteration; it seemed to me that if I had, on my own initiative, substituted for the sweetness of a confession a pretence of indifference, I should not only have been depriving myself of one of the joys of which I had most often dreamed, I should have been fabricating, of my own free will, a love that was artificial and without value, that bore no relation to the truth, whose mysterious and foreordained ways I should thus have been declining to follow.†   (source)
  • If them varlets have passed a minute, they have spent hours in striving to fabricate a lying end to their trail!†   (source)
  • He had expected questions to close in round him, and unmask his fabrication in five minutes; yet such questioning had not come.†   (source)
  • In old Norse times, the thrones of the sea-loving Danish kings were fabricated, saith tradition, of the tusks of the narwhale.†   (source)
  • Except the knowledge of blazons, that enables me to decipher them, I am very ignorant of heraldry—I, a count of a fresh creation, fabricated in Tuscany by the aid of a commandery of St. Stephen, and who would not have taken the trouble had I not been told that when you travel much it is necessary.†   (source)
  • Of the fabricated tastes of good fashionable society she knew but little, and of the formulated self-indulgence of bad, nothing at all.†   (source)
  • There isn't a gaol in the colony as tight as this we are now in; for I've tried the vartues of two or three on 'em, and I know the mater'als they are made of, as well as the men that made 'em; takin' down being the next step in schoolin', to puttin' up, in all such fabrications."†   (source)
  • This tale was originally fabricated as a means of annoyance against one who hurt your trade and half cudgelled you to death, and to enable you to obtain repossession of a half-dead drudge, whom you wished to regain, because, while you wreaked your vengeance on him for his share in the business, you knew that the knowledge that he was again in your power would be the best punishment you could inflict upon your enemy.†   (source)
  • In the same belt was stuck one of those long, broad, sharp-pointed, and two-edged knives, with a buck's-horn handle, which were fabricated in the neighbourhood, and bore even at this early period the name of a Sheffield whittle.†   (source)
  • I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidian mind of man, that in the world's finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, of all…†   (source)
  • The platform, as well as the caves of the house, were surmounted by gaudily painted railings, and the genius of Hiram was exerted in the fabrication of divers urns and mouldings, that were scattered profusely around this part of their labors.†   (source)
  • Bazarov had spoken of his departure with no idea of putting her to the test, of seeing what would come of it; he never 'fabricated.'†   (source)
  • The scaffold is the accomplice of the executioner; it devours, it eats flesh, it drinks blood; the scaffold is a sort of monster fabricated by the judge and the carpenter, a spectre which seems to live with a horrible vitality composed of all the death which it has inflicted.†   (source)
  • His mother consented 'to humour him', as she said, although without much faith in the value of the preparation; and in the course of two days a stock of pemmican, sufficient for a Polar expedition, was fabricated by our enthusiastic son.†   (source)
  • When a workman is unceasingly and exclusively engaged in the fabrication of one thing, he ultimately does his work with singular dexterity; but at the same time he loses the general faculty of applying his mind to the direction of the work.†   (source)
  • Imitation diamonds are now made which may be easily mistaken for real ones; as soon as the art of fabricating false diamonds shall have reached so high a degree of perfection that they cannot be distinguished from real ones, it is probable that both one and the other will be abandoned, and become mere pebbles again.†   (source)
  • 'tis wicked fabrication of the whites, and I say it to the shame of my color that would make the warrior bow down before images of his own creation.†   (source)
  • They fabricate systems, they recast society, they demolish the monarchy, they fling all laws to the earth, they put the attic in the cellar's place and my porter in the place of the King, they turn Europe topsy-turvy, they reconstruct the world, and all their love affairs consist in staring slily at the ankles of the laundresses as these women climb into their carts.†   (source)
  • Ay, lady, the fine cobweb-looking cloth you wear at your throat is coarse, and like a fishnet, to little spots I can show you, where the river fabricates all sorts of images, as if having broke loose from order, it would try its hand at everything.†   (source)
  • On the opposite side of the clearing, and near the point where the brook tumbled over some rocks, from a still higher level, some fifty or sixty lodges, rudely fabricated of logs brush, and earth intermingled, were to be discovered.†   (source)
  • Satisfied with this testimony in their favor, the girls proceeded to deposit the body in a shell, ingeniously, and not inelegantly, fabricated of the bark of the birch; after which they lowered it into its dark and final abode.†   (source)
  • He could not at first believe that such a work came from America, and said it must have been fabricated by his enemies at Paris, to decry his system.†   (source)
  • No, it was the daughter of the mother in the washkitchen that was fostersister to the heir of the house or else they were connected through the mother in some way, both occurrences happening at the same time if the whole thing wasn't a complete fabrication from start to finish.†   (source)
  • Yet still though his eyes were thick with sleep and sea air life was full of a host of things and coincidences of a terrible nature and it was quite within the bounds of possibility that it was not an entire fabrication though at first blush there was not much inherent probability in all the spoof he got off his chest being strictly accurate gospel.†   (source)
  • Should this at any time happen, how easy would it be to fabricate pretenses of approaching danger!†   (source)
  • On the other hand, I reflect that he related and told the story with all the circumstances detailed, and that he could not in so short a space have fabricated such a vast complication of absurdities; if, then, this adventure seems apocryphal, it is no fault of mine; and so, without affirming its falsehood or its truth, I write it down.†   (source)
  • Don Quixote was puzzled, wondering what could be the object of such precautions; whereupon Don Antonio taking his hand passed it over the bronze head and the whole table and the pedestal of jasper on which it stood, and then said, "This head, Senor Don Quixote, has been made and fabricated by one of the greatest magicians and wizards the world ever saw, a Pole, I believe, by birth, and a pupil of the famous Escotillo of whom such marvellous stories are told.†   (source)
  • With a disposition to invade the essential rights of the community, and with the means of gratifying that disposition, is it presumable that the persons who were actuated by it would amuse themselves in the ridiculous task of fabricating election laws for securing a preference to a favorite class of men?†   (source)
  • "But consider, brother," said the curate once more, "there never was any Felixmarte of Hircania in the world, nor any Cirongilio of Thrace, or any of the other knights of the same sort, that the books of chivalry talk of; the whole thing is the fabrication and invention of idle wits, devised by them for the purpose you describe of beguiling the time, as your reapers do when they read; for I swear to you in all seriousness there never were any such knights in the world, and no such…†   (source)
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