nious

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