1 The rule was against sheets, which are a human invention.
2 But necessity, according to the ancient proverb, sharpens invention, and he muttered something under his cowl concerning the men in question being excommunicated outlaws both to church and to kingdom.
3 The light, the food, the wine, set my invention to work.
4 And then he bowed in a manner of his own invention and moved to go.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression 5 My father had a small factory at Coventry, which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS 6 That is what dismayed me: the sense of some hitherto unsuspected power, through whose intervention my invention had vanished.
7 "Little goose girl, who kept a hundred fat geese in the field," said Amy, when Sallie's invention gave out.
8 Bingley of course returned with him to dinner; and in the evening Mrs. Bennet's invention was again at work to get every body away from him and her daughter.
9 However it is not doubted, that this invention may be capable of great improvement.
10 He had therefore begun to think it not unwise in us to cover our bodies, and by that invention conceal many of our deformities from each other, which would else be hardly supportable.
11 Life is a hideous invention of I know not whom.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN 12 The invention of this fable was attributed to the coachman.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND 13 The invention is old, my friends, but it is perfectly new.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING 14 The invention of the mousetrap does not date from our days; as soon as societies, in forming, had invented any kind of police, that police invented mousetraps.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 10 A MOUSETRAP IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 15 But that the end of it, like the Rhine, was very insignificant, proved, in his opinion, the author's want of invention; he was without genius, etc.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE