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Spedding, "failed to devise a practicable method for the discovery of the Forms of Nature, because he misconceived the conditions of the case.... For the same reason he failed to make any single discovery which holds its place as one of the steps by which science has in any direction really advanced.
"He had an only daughter, Mariora by name, and has your ladyship any idea of what Roumanian beauties are? A sculptor could not devise a nobler model.
They would no more fit under European forest conditions than would foreign systems be suitable in this country. American lumbermen are slowly coming to devise and follow a combination method which includes all the good points of foreign forestry revised to apply to our conditions.
How could he explain this intrusion? He stood still, his fingers clinched on the door-handle, trying to devise a reason, an excuse. Then he remembered that a week ago he had lent his brother a phial of laudanum to relieve a fit of toothache. He might himself have been in pain this night and have come to find the drug. So he went in with a stealthy step, like a robber.
As we had nothing to do with the cargo, of course, our duties were light enough; and the chief mate was often put to it to devise some employment for us. We had no watches to stand, a ship-keeper, hired from shore, relieving us from that; and all the while the men's wages ran on, as at sea. Sundays we had to ourselves.
The meat of which saying is in the well known fact, that Jud is never in a good humor when he is not sober, that he is never sober when he has money; and that with the exception of three or four kindred spirits, whose admiration for the bad man is equalled only by their fear of him, no one has ever been able to devise a way to avoid crossing him when he is in his normal condition.
"My sister, too, will be hostile. Don't let's forget that." Sir James shrugged his shoulders, with the smile of one who is determined to keep his spirits up. "Well, my dear Marsham, you have your battle cut out for you! Don't delay it. Where is Lady Lucy?" "In town." "Can't you devise some excuse that will take you back to her early to-morrow morning?" Marsham thought over it.
It seemed to him a menace. "I must keep it up I must keep it up," he murmured to himself as he left the room. "Winifred loves fancies loves me for what she thinks mine." He went to his library, and sat down heavily, to devise fresh outrages on the ordinary. His pranks became innumerable, and Society called him the most original figure of London. The papers quoted him his doings, not his sayings.
The hope, if I could only live long enough, of increasing it to a certain sum, has impelled me to resist the disease by such palliative means as I could devise. The one effectual palliative in my case, is opium. To that all-potent and all-merciful drug I am indebted for a respite of many years from my sentence of death. But even the virtues of opium have their limit.
He finally thought that a good storage battery was a great requisite, and decided to try and devise a new type, for he declared emphatically he would make no battery requiring sulphuric acid. After a little thought he conceived the nickel-iron idea, and started to work at once with characteristic energy.
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