1 I know what's good for them, or I try to, and then I just contrive to manage them for their own good.
2 Mrs. Norris offered to contrive his dress, Mr. Yates assured him that Anhalt's last scene with the Baron admitted a good deal of action and emphasis, and Mr. Rushworth undertook to count his speeches.
3 I have been slaving myself till I can hardly stand, to contrive Mr. Rushworth's cloak without sending for any more satin; and now I think you may give me your help in putting it together.
4 Once she did contrive to push him away, but the boy had the greater pleasure in getting upon her back again directly.
5 Yes; and he do contrive to stumble upon her whenever she walks out on fine days with the chiel.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 6: 3 The Serious Discourse of Clym with His Cousin 6 My first was to secure some safe place of refuge, and to make myself such arms of metal or stone as I could contrive.
7 Yet the newly-arrived guest kept his head sufficiently to contrive to murmur some such compliment as might fittingly come from a middle-aged individual of a rank neither excessively high nor excessively low.
8 Meditating in solitude, he fell to thinking how best he could contrive to recompense his guest for the latter's measureless benevolence.
9 How they contrive to be so God only knows.
10 "However, we must contrive to wet our bargain somehow," continued Khlobuev.
11 We are oppressed at being men--men with a real individual body and blood, we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalised man.
12 Soon we shall contrive to be born somehow from an idea.
13 You never can tell what mischief these men may contrive.
14 You must contrive to send somebody.
15 The queen commanded her own cabinet-maker to contrive a box, that might serve me for a bedchamber, after the model that Glumdalclitch and I should agree upon.