Hornblower possesses a hyper-developed sense of duty, though on occasion he is able to set it aside ; for example, in Hornblower and the Hotspur, he contrives an escape for his personal steward, who would otherwise have to be hanged for striking a superior officer.

D ´ Artagnan meets the young king and watches over him as some Frondeurs-including Planchet, under a false name-who wanted to make sure that the king and queen were not about to escape, enter the king's bedroom demanding to see him: immediately after this, he contrives for all of the royal household to escape from Paris anyway, bluffing his way past Planchet at the gates ( the two men retain their friendship despite their differing allegiances in this conflict ).

Diana, understanding that Admiral Stranraer wants Jack to miss the parliamentary vote on enclosing Simmon's Lea, contrives for Jack to leave immediately for London without receiving his orders so that duty will not compel him to miss the vote.

In Gilchrist ’ s room on the first floor, and Ras ’ s room on the second, Holmes cleverly contrives a ruse which will make it necessary for him to borrow a pencil, and a knife to sharpen his own.

He eats his meal, then contrives a reason to leave ( typically he is short a little money, but this could be any of a variety of reasons, as long as it allows for a swift return for payment ).

He contrives to reward the Richards for their supposed honesty by buying the sack at auction for its price in gold.

Maria Edgeworth's Leonora, for example, depicts the " sensible " Olivia as a villainess who contrives her passions or at least bends them to suit her selfish wants ; the text also makes a point to say that Olivia has lived in France and thus adopted " French " manners.

* The Horse in the Camel Suit ( 1967 ): The town policeman, in a huff, locks up a show troupe and a young detective contrives to set them free without hurting the policeman's feelings.

Bond contrives to meet and have a round of golf with Goldfinger ; Goldfinger attempts to win the golf match by cheating, but Bond turns the tables on him, beating him in the process.

Having met Bill Oakshott ( the nominal owner of Ashenden Manor, but under the thumb of his uncle Sir Aylmer ) on the train, he contrives to get invited to the house — under the name of Major Brabazon-Plank.

The wife of one of his captains, Lady Clonfert, seeks passage with Aubrey to enable her to join her husband but Aubrey is not keen on this and contrives to leave early one morning without her.

She contrives an elaborate plan to lure him into the " Black House ", to see ' a hundred bright inventions ', and end their relationship on a high note.

When they arrive in London and he contrives to slip on a banana skin when he gets out of the car, thereby getting down on one knee.

He contrives to accompany them on a train trip to Munich with Marsen and two guards.

In Dougra Mansion, after being told that Sano joined Robert's Ten to save him from the Death Pentagon ( a small black bug that Karlpacchio attaches to Inumaru's neck, that would suck all of Wanko's blood out of him on command, thus killing him ), he contrives to destroy himself, so that Sano can be freed from his obligation.

Besides this, the devil contrives in every way to paint it as something good so that having inclined us toward it, he could upset our spiritual tranquility or inflict harm on us.

The Gestalt therapist contrives experiments that lead the client to greater awareness and fuller experience of his or her possibilities.

Furious with her sister's plight, Dakki contrives a plan to reclaim her sister.

Woodrow Tyler ( Rob Schneider ), an employee in Drysdale's bank, catches wind of this and contrives a scheme with his con artist girlfriend, Laura Jackson ( Lea Thompson ), to steal Jed's money by having her marry Jed.

Louis, in a moment of weakness, feeds from the six year old orphan, and Lestat contrives to make her into a vampire to, in his own words, " bind Louis to.

Knowing that the owners of these properties ordered to be demolished by the city government were compensated handsomely, Saccard contrives to borrow money in order to buy up these properties before their status becomes public and then make massive profits.

In order to seek a cure Tristan travels to Ireland incognito ( under the name Tantris ), and contrives to get himself cured by Gurmun's Queen Isolde ( Isolde the Wise ).

Although the poem deals with universal history, the author contrives to give some sort of unity to his work by grouping it around the theme of man's redemption.

Aurally it contrives to suggest something at once slippery and tortuous.

Aside from the initial appeal to plausibility of desires that do not directly contribute to one's life going well, Parfit contrives situations where S is indirectly self-defeating.

An underground movement, fearing that the leader is not human, contrives to place Tung at a party where the leader will be present.

He contrives a meeting and believes he can then marry Kitty.

He contrives a stealthy plan to build an eighth bridge so that he can begin in the evening at his Schloß, walk the bridges, and end at the Gasthaus to brag of his victory.

The plot-lines of Dinosaur Island and Skartaris are but a few examples of the experiments the DC universe contrives yet its role in DC comics are played down when in comparison to other companies therefore they are included as being a race from earth.

She contrives to become his page – a youth named Sebastian – until she can decide upon a course of action.

These plays are in the form of a trilogy in the first of which Fra Rupert contrives the death of Andrea husband of Giovanna.

Eve, as Margo's ever-present assitant, knows Margo's part in the play completely, and Eve contrives to get herself hired as Margo's understudy.

" Time Out wrote: " The casting of innumerable major film-makers in small roles seems an unnecessary bit of elbow-jogging, but David Bowie makes an excellent contribution as an English hit man, and the two leading players are excellent: Pfeiffer in particular takes the sort of glamorous yet preposterous part that generally defeats even the best actress and somehow contrives to make it credible every inch of the way.

When I mentioned that for my first long voyage I did not even have the money for the return fare, but had trusted to luck that I would earn a sufficient amount, the young people looked at me doubtingly.

I think that we are here also talking of the kind of fear that a young boy has for a group of boys who are approaching at night along the streets of a large city.

We enjoyed a paradoxical freedom when we were still too young for school.

In the following year her father undertook to give a course in Hebrew theology to Johns Hopkins students, and this brought to the Szold house a group of bright young Jews who had come to Baltimore to study, and who enjoyed being fed and mothered by Mamma and entertained by Henrietta and Rachel, who played and sang for them in the upstairs sitting room on Sunday evenings.

A smart, shrewd and ambitious young man, well connected, and with a knack for getting in the good graces of important people, he was bound to go far.

`` This is no place for a young girl '', he said.

She was pious, too, once kneeling through the night from Holy Thursday to Good Friday, despite the protest of the nuns that this was too much for a young girl.

Defoe then commented, `` If they Could Draw that young Gentleman into Their Measures They would show themselves quickly, for they are not asham'd to Say They want only a head to Make a beginning ''.

In `` My Song's Young Virgin Date '', for example, Thompson wrote: `` Yea, she that had my song's young virgin date Not now, alas, that noble singular she, I nobler hold, though marred from her once state, Than others in their best integrity.

That she was affected by his protestations seems obvious, but since she was evidently a sensible young woman -- as well as an outgoing and sympathetic type -- it would seem that for her the word friendship had a far less intense emotional significance than that which Thompson gave it.

England contributed a young subaltern named Newton and the naval architect Samuel Bentham, brother to the economist, who for his colonel's commission was proving a godsend to the Russian fleet.

While Aristotle censors literature only for the young, Plato would banish all poets from his ideal state.

In the ideal state, for instance, he argues that the young citizens should hear only the most carefully selected tales and stories.

At the same time, a major proportion of these young men and women see religion as a means of personal adjustment, an anchor for family life, a source of emotional security.

Affirmatively Baker worked on the premise that `` young men spontaneously prefer to be decent, and that opportunities for wholesome recreation are the best possible cure for irregularities in conduct which arise from idleness and the baser temptations ''.

He was in London `` searching records for our town's causes '' in 1600 with young Henry Sturley, the assistant schoolmaster.

Perhaps, in that short piece or letter written to Hartlib in which he sketched his scheme for educating young men, he merely overlooked that phase of their exercises.

We often say of a person that he `` looks young for his age '' or `` old for his age ''.

`` Looking young for your age '' means `` for your age '' and it means no more.

The pessimism of the young is defiant, anxious to confess or even exaggerate its ostensible gloom, and so exuberant as to reveal the fact that it regards its ability to face up to the awful truth as more than enough to compensate for the awfulness of that truth.

Some of the marble busts in the park are of young Englishmen who fought and died for Garibaldi.