I’ll tell thee, Charles, it is the stubbornest young fellow of France; full of ambition, an envious emulator of every man’s good parts, a secret and villainous contriver against me his natural brother.
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Contriver
Synonyms for "contriver" (18 found)
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[…] those desctructive Machines, whereof he said, some evil Genius, Enemy to Mankind, must have been the first Contriver.
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A heroine returning, at the close of her career, to her native village, in all the triumph of recovered reputation, and all the dignity of a countess […] is an event on which the pen of the contriver may well delight to dwell;
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They had toured the world together with their Soirée of Illusions, combining his art as a public performer with her skill as a technician, a contriver of magical apparatus, and her artistic taste, which was far beyond his own.
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