contrivers

a contriver who has a hand, or something tantamount to one; who does act; who, being a contriver, has what all other contrivers must have, if they are to be called contrivers -- a body which can suffer more or less pain or chagrin if the contrivance is unsuccessful.

Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin Samuel Butler 1868

“It cannot be very difficult to determine who have been the contrivers of this whole mercantile system; not the consumers, we may believe, whose interest has been entirely neglected; but the producers, whose interest has been so carefully attended to; and and among this latter class our merchants and manufacturers have been by far the principal architects.”

A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2010

“It cannot be very difficult to determine who have been the contrivers of this whole mercantile system; not the consumers, we may believe, whose interest has been entirely neglected; but the producers, whose interest has been so carefully attended to; and and among this latter class our merchants and manufacturers have been by far the principal architects.”

skzbrust: TWoN Book 3 Chapter 8 skzbrust 2010

The feeling which the Athenian generals displayed greatly contributed to the result; for, being compelled to proceed to Sicily themselves, they were well known to wish that no one else should gain the credit of bringing the prisoners to Athens; and therefore the agreement was interpreted to the letter,29 and the contrivers of the trick thought that they could execute it with impunity.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

There are no worse instruments, than these general contrivers of suits; for they are but a kind of poison, and infection, to public proceedings.

The Essays 2007

If the whole of the Dossiers Secrets was contrived from the start, then the contrivers have either been extraordinarily lucky—choosing locations that are coincidentally associated with other parts of the story—been staggeringly clever, or had access to genuine inside information, weaving it into an entirely fictitious scenario precisely in order to impress.

The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

If the whole of the Dossiers Secrets was contrived from the start, then the contrivers have either been extraordinarily lucky—choosing locations that are coincidentally associated with other parts of the story—been staggeringly clever, or had access to genuine inside information, weaving it into an entirely fictitious scenario precisely in order to impress.

The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

If the whole of the Dossiers Secrets was contrived from the start, then the contrivers have either been extraordinarily lucky—choosing locations that are coincidentally associated with other parts of the story—been staggeringly clever, or had access to genuine inside information, weaving it into an entirely fictitious scenario precisely in order to impress.

The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

Thus these conspiracies quickly occasion the destruction of their contrivers, and, in time, inevitably injure their primary object.

The History of Florence 2003

And now the three bodies being exposed to view, and the fact divulged, no fear was strong enough to hinder the people from expressing their abhorrence of what was done, and their detestation of Leonidas and Amphares, the contrivers of it.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003