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  • He had no wish for them to witness his less than harmo - nious love life.

    The Bellini Bride Reid, Michelle 2002

  • Equally satisfying in its way, and certainly no less inge? nious, is the little-known fireplace ashpit.

    I'm A Stranger Here Myself Bryson, Bill 1999

  • He broke into a hearty laugh, for it appeared that this Radziwill, one of the more impecu - nious ones, had managed to place himself in the paid service of five different countries.

    Poland Michener, James 1983

  • The panspermist theory was further confirmed by the inge - nious experiments devised by John Tyndall to prove that exposed infusions of sterile organic matter fail to produce bacteria when surrounded by optically pure air.

    SPONTANEOUS GENERATION ARAM VARTANIAN 1968

  • “With wit, talent, and taste,” he promises, “one can produce inge - nious works, without any erudition, and with little literature.”

    LITERATURE AND ITS COGNATES REN 1968

  • The application of science is seen incidentally in Lewes's comparison of style to an efficient machine, and systematically in Herbert Spencer's naïvely inge - nious reduction of style to the law of minimum effort.

    STYLE IN LITERATURE R. A. SAYCE 1968

  • Thus beauty and truth are plainly joined with the notion of utility and convenience, even in the apprehension of every inge - nious artist, the architect, the statuary or the painter

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas HERBERT DIECKMANN 1968

  • [(Sir Philip; for this time, therefore, he was disappointed of fulfilling) 9.9 (his ing) 9.9 (e) 3.9 (nious intention, and)] TJ

    The Enchantress; or, Where Shall I Find Her? A Tale 1801

  • [(Mrs. Macfarlane proposed a thousand ing) 9.5 (e) 3.5 (nious contrivances; but Sir Philip, with equal)] TJ

    The Enchantress; or, Where Shall I Find Her? A Tale 1801

  • You already know she was at Law most part of her widdowhood with her Son in Law Swan both before our Generall and County Courts a most Virulent and Vene nious person he was he married the Daughter of one

    Letter from Robert Carter to Landon Jones, July 22, 1723 1723

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