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" He contrives and finishes a canoe by the help of a fellow-servant, and puts to sea at a venture.
He always contrives to be sick at the least cross!
If there is a sexual bit to be found in a story, Johnson usually contrives to slip it in.
The later, whimsical novels of Elmore Leonard have been all too put-downable, but Soderbergh contrives the perfect voice for Leonard's prose--laid-back and grooving when it needs to be, but also taut, with the eerie foreboding of violence about to erupt.
Covetous of Austin Powers' lack of inhibition, he contrives to go back in time--to 1969, when both he and Powers were cryogenically frozen--and steal the source of the secret agent's appeal: his life force, or ""mojo.
When all the heavyweight bad guys are dead or in jail (and his celebrity endorsements dry up), he contrives to have one of his old nemeses, Casanova Frankenstein (Geoffrey Rush) released from the insane asylum--a bad move, as it turns out, since Amazing has got rusty and Frankenstein has had plenty of time to hatch a diabolical scheme.
Then seizing it in its jaws, and fixing its hind legs firmly as a pivot, it contrives to turn round and round, and so to strain the fibres of the fruit-stalk until they snap; it then patiently backs down the stem.
This is no other than a bat of monstrous size, that sucks the blood from men and cattle, sometimes even till they die; knowing, by instinct, that the person they intend to attack is in a sound slumber, they generally alight near the feet, where, while the creature continues fanning with his enormous wings, which keeps one cool, he bites a piece out of the tip of the great toe, so very small indeed, that the head of a pin could scarcely be received into the wound, which is consequently not painful; yet, through this orifice, he contrives to suck the blood, until he is obliged to disgorge.
Chance, millions of chances, give him power, and all men as if by agreement co-operate to confirm that power.
Chance forms the characters of the rulers of France, who submit to him; chance forms the character of Paul I of Russia who recognizes his government; chance contrives a plot against him which not only fails to harm him but confirms his power.
Chance puts the Duc d'Enghien in his hands and unexpectedly causes him to kill him-thereby convincing the mob more forcibly than in any other way that he had the right, since he had the might.
Chance contrives that though he directs all his efforts to prepare an expedition against England (which would inevitably have ruined him) he never carries out that intention, but unexpectedly falls upon Mack and the Austrians, who surrender without a battle.
Chance and genius give him the victory at Austerlitz; and by chance all men, not only the French but all Europe-except England which does not take part in the events about to happen-despite their former horror and detestation of his crimes, now recognize his authority, the title he has given himself, and his ideal of grandeur and glory, which seems excellent and reasonable to them all.
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