All 9 Uses of
contrived
in
The Scarlet Pimpernel
- "At what time do you expect Sir Percy and Lady Blakeney?" he contrived to whisper unobserved, to mine host.†
Chpt 4 *contrived = unnatural or arranged
- When he wants to speak to us, he will contrive to let us know.†
Chpt 9contrive = arrange
- Though the autumn season had only just begun, everybody who was anybody had contrived to be in London in time to be present there, and to shine at this ball, to the best of his or her respective ability.†
Chpt 11contrived = unnatural or arranged
- Marguerite contrived for the moment to evade her present attentive cavalier, and she skirted the fashionable crowd, drawing nearer to the doorway, against which Sir Andrew was leaning.†
Chpt 12
- I contrived—no matter how—to detect Sir Andrew Ffoulkes in the very act of burning a paper at one of these candles, in this very room.†
Chpt 14
- He recounted to her some of the daring escapes the brave Scarlet Pimpernel had contrived for the poor French fugitives, whom a relentless and bloody revolution was driving out of their country.†
Chpt 21
- In this Marguerite managed to find shelter; she was quite hidden from view, yet could contrive to get within three yards of where Chauvelin stood, giving orders to his men.†
Chpt 28contrive = arrange
- How he had contrived to reach the hut, without being seen by one of the thirty soldiers who guarded the spot, was more than Chauvelin could conceive.†
Chpt 30contrived = unnatural or arranged
- I fancy that I contrived to make myself look about as loathsome an object as it is possible to conceive.†
Chpt 31
Definition:
unnatural seeming (due to careful planning)
or more rarely:
arranged (that something should happen)
or more rarely:
arranged (that something should happen)