contrive
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So this week: Contrive an elaborate scenario that ends in a novel groaner pun on a familiar expression, title, etc.
From Washington Post
Contrive something to make me forget it, won’t you?
From That Girl Montana by Ryan, Marah Ellis
Contrive to put a little bit of your handkerchief through the latticework of the window of your room, as a signal to us which it is.
From With Clive in India Or, The Beginnings of an Empire by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
Shall then the Greeks, unpunish'd and conceal'd, Contrive, perhaps, the ruin of our empire; League with our chiefs, and propagate sedition?
From Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes by Johnson, Samuel
Fix all the posts for different tribes; Our foes keep marching without sleep— Contrive to check them by surprise.
From Apu Ollantay A Drama of the Time of the Incas by Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir
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