contriving

In this abundant world, the role of publishers and editors is more crucial than ever, in contriving scarcity for the benefit of readers, whose time is short.

Journalism, Blogging, and Truth, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

The Relation's ingenuity in contriving to give away whatever plums were given to her was quite amazing, and she generally managed to

Juliana Horatia Ewing and Her Books 1885

As the child grew more accustomed to Miss Asphyxia, while her hatred of her increased, somewhat of that native hardihood which had characterized her happier days returned; and she began to use all the subtlety and secretiveness which belonged to her feminine nature in contriving how not to do the will of her tyrant, and yet not to seem designedly to oppose.

Oldtown Folks 1869

With men this is impossible: the wisdom of man would soon be nonplussed in contriving, and the power of man baffled in effecting, the salvation of a soul.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721

We will do it; Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, all concur in contriving, carrying on, and crowning, the blessed work when the time comes.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

-- The riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God, the abundant instances of his wisdom and knowledge in contriving and carrying on the work of our redemption by Christ, a depth which the angels pry into, 1 Pet. i.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

He is not liable to those uneasinesses, either in contriving what he shall do or reflecting on what he has done, which those are liable to that walk in deceit.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

The result of her contriving was a startling mixture of fashions widely separated as to periods.

In Old Kentucky Edward Marshall 1901

"Mean, sir; I mean to say that I've got a powder of my own contriving, which is a sovereign remedy."

Japhet in Search of a Father Frederick Marryat 1820

"Mean, sir; I mean to say that I've got a powder of my own contriving, which is a sovereign remedy."

Japhet, in Search of a Father Frederick Marryat 1820