What is "contrivers"

Usage examples of "contrivers".

Back there in the city even the pursuit of pleasure was a mad mechanical rush, promoted by contrivers with something to gain from it.

He looked upon the contrivers and executors of the villanous South Sea scheme as the parricides of their country, and should be satisfied to see them tied in like manner in sacks, and thrown into the Thames.

Thus these conspiracies quickly occasion the destruction of their contrivers, and, in time, inevitably injure their primary object.

Such was the din of the bells and the squalling of the cats, that though the duke and duchess were the contrivers of the joke they were startled by it, while Don Quixote stood paralysed with fear.

If the contrivers of this scheme meant any sort of favour to the rich in consequence of their contribution, they ought to have conferred the privilege either on the individual rich, or on some class formed of rich persons.