devisable
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Stolberg offers him the favorablest terms devisable: "Withdraw freely, with all your honors, all your properties; only withdraw!"
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19 by Thomas Carlyle
True liberty is not to be virtually secured by any framework of rules and limitations, devisable only by statecraft.
From Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by Adam G. de Gurowski, Count
When once any soul is truly enlightened, it cannot but put forth every devisable effort to compel the attention of others.
From The Authoritative Life of General William Booth by George S. (George Scott) Railton
Would to Heaven that we had a sieve; that we could so much as fancy any kind of sieve, wind- fanners, or ne-plus-ultra of machinery, devisable by man, that would do it!
From Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle
Would to Heaven that we had a sieve; that we could so much as fancy any kind of sieve, wind-fanners, or ne-plus-ultra of machinery, devisable by man, that would do it!
From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Thomas Carlyle
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