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The man was moody and irritable as the hours passed, tired of waiting for a crazy gnome in a sailing contriv - ance, who probably would never return anyway.
The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990
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The man was moody and irritable as the hours passed, tired of waiting for a crazy gnome in a sailing contriv - ance, who probably would never return anyway.
The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990
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A crosswind fluttered the box-kite nose of the contriv - ance, and it veered aside, then nosed up and headed for the sky again, straight up and gaining speed.
The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990
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The man was moody and irritable as the hours passed, tired of waiting for a crazy gnome in a sailing contriv - ance, who probably would never return anyway.
The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990
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A crosswind fluttered the box-kite nose of the contriv - ance, and it veered aside, then nosed up and headed for the sky again, straight up and gaining speed.
The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990
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A crosswind fluttered the box-kite nose of the contriv - ance, and it veered aside, then nosed up and headed for the sky again, straight up and gaining speed.
The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990
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A straight and well-contriv'd _Mind_, finds it easier to yield to a perverse one, than to direct and manage it.
The Present State of Wit (1711) In a Letter to a Friend in the Country John Gay 1708
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Per. 1 believe you never heard of such a contriv - ance, Mr. freeman, as this fellow had found out.
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The parallax of the rul* ing point, againft which I had made no provifion, is, by a very fimple and happy contriv - ance, taken away in common ruling, or rendered variable at pleafure, for the purpofe of thickening the ftroke in ihadCng.
A Journal of natural philosophy, chemistry, and the arts .. 1797
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The houfes of the town of Puna are built on pofts ten or twelve feet high, into which they go up by ladders, and are thatched with palmeto-leaves: the like contriv - ance I have feen among the Malayans in the Eaft Indies.
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