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Usage examples of devised.

Melkor hath devised heats and fire without restraint, and hath not dried up thy desire nor utterly quelled the music of the sea.

Shall nothing that I have devised be free from the dominion of others?

In his youth, bettering the work of Rúmil, he devised those letters which bear his name, and which the Eldar used ever after.

In those days, it is said, Daeron the Minstrel, chief loremaster of the kingdom of Thingol, devised his Runes.

It is said indeed that Maedhros himself devised this plan, to lessen the chances of strife, and because he was very willing that the chief peril of assault should fall upon himself.

For with the aid and counsel of Sauron they multiplied then: possessions, and they devised engines, and they built ever greater ships.

The Noldor may have devised this name because the first Elves of this origin whom they met with were in the north, under the grey skies and mists about Lake Mithrim (see Mithrim).

The name of the hidden city of King Turgon was devised by him in Quenya as Ondolindë (Quenya ondo= Sindarin gond, and lindë 'singing, song').

It was to avoid moments such as this that all the complex twistings of their minds had been devised, They wished the directive to go into effect.

I would not surrender them to the educational systems devised to stunt a child's brain, to convince him that reason is impotent, that existence is an irrational chaos with which he's unable to deal, and thus reduce him to a state of chronic terror.

They acted like savages performing a ritual devised to set them free of objective reality.

The pull of one of the small levers, which protruded like bookmarks from the shelves, threw thousands of electric circuits into motion, made thousands of contacts and broke as many others, set dozens of switches to clear a chosen course and dozens of signals to light it, with no error left possible, no chance, no contradiction —an enormous complexity of thought condensed into one movement of a human hand to set and insure the course of a train, that hundreds of trains might safely rush by, that thousands of tons of metal and lives might pass in speeding streaks a breath away from one another, protected by nothing but a thought, the thought of the man who devised the levers.

You would not be able to desire the clothes that had not been made, the automobile that had not been invented, the money that had not been devised, as exchange for goods that did not exist, the admiration that had not been experienced for men who had achieved nothing, the love that belongs and pertains only to those who preserve their capacity to think, to choose, to value.

Theirs is a system of white blackmail devised to bleed you, not by means of your sins, but by means of your love for existence.

The saddles Our People devised were an improvement over the heavy affairs used by the Pawnee or the crude wooden efforts of the Ute.