And Lady Rety racked her inventive mind to find a means to cross her son's plans; but she sickened at the thought that the notary, whom she hated because she could not despise him, was likely to triumph over her.
Discovery here required an inventive mind like Plato's to deal with and arrange new and varied facts.
Their temper was too stubborn to acquiesce in the absolute authority of the Greek philosophy, although their minds were not inventive enough to establish a rival by its side.
A valuable history of the development of the inventive faculty.
I should not fail to mention the suppression of the inventive power of society, a factor less obvious, but probably in the long run even greater.
To the inventive activity of the discoverer he had already united the patient skill of the observer and the practical sagacity of the experimentalist.
Hampel's success gave a general impetus to the inventive faculty of musical instrument makers in Europe.
In the judgment he passes on the older poetry of Rome and on that of his contemporaries, he seems to attach more importance to the critical and artistic than to the creative and inventive functions of genius.
Don't you know all that a man should know, who is distinguished for his wisdom and inventive daring?
It has been disputed whether the Antinous statues are portraits or idealised works of inventive art; and it is usually conceded that the sculptors of Hadrian's age were not able to produce a new ideal type.
Some captains with lessinventive genius are much more cruel than was our friend Jerry in their black list punishments.
The opportunity for exhibiting his inventive genius was not to be lost.
On this, Jerry, who was possessed of an inventive turn of mind, set himself to work to devise such as would to a certainty be so hated by the men that they would answer the purpose of maintaining discipline fully as much as flogging.
There can be no doubt at all that their work is exacting and incessant; it is also inventive in its variety and its ready application to the practical needs of life.
The mothers, their inventive faculties quickened by the stress of child-bearing and child-rearing, would learn to convert to their own uses the most available portion of their environment.
Who can doubt the inventive genius of Palamedes after all the tales told of him?
Who after this can doubt the inventive powers of Palamedes or his historian, and who can say that either might not have invented chess?
So much for the domestic setting of this diamond of inventive genius.
It is not immoderate to say that no other judicial pronouncement in history was so wedded to the inventive genius of man and so interwoven with the economic and social evolution of a nation and a people.
For many years inventive minds had been at work on the problem of steam navigation.
He had an inventive craftiness, which led him to take unexpected routes.
He was a natural-born carpenter, with inventive powers of a high order.
The inventive powers of man are divine; and also his stupidity is divine--as Cowper so playfully illustrates in the slow development of the sofa through successive generations of immortal dulness.
Many of the most picturesque bridges in Britain, which every tourist has admired, often without inquiring or thinking of the hand that planned them, were designed by his inventive brain.
He had the clocks and watches to mend; he had Robert's schooling to look after; and he had another practical matter even nearer home than the locomotive on which to exercise his inventive genius.
This part of the inventive problem, to many an inventor, is insolvable for many reasons.
