devise

“Oh, that coat is not his own idea; it is the Republic’s, which deputed David to devise a uniform for the Academicians.”

“But the Professor was fenced round with safeguards so cunningly devised that, do what I would, it seemed impossible to get evidence which would convict in a court of law.

But in vain did he rack his imagination; fertile as it was, he could not devise any plan for reaching the island without companionship.

During the six years which had passed since Noirtier first fell into this sad state, Valentine’s powers of invention had been too often put to the test not to render her expert in devising expedients for gaining a knowledge of his wishes, and the constant practice had so perfected her in the art that she guessed the old man’s meaning as quickly as if he himself had been able to seek for what he wanted.