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Contrive Quotes
Making do and making up
Some quotes describe people who contrive a living from the land by fishing and gathering various seeds, an Actual account of subsistence.
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We have seen Indians in immense numbers, and all those on this coast of the Pacific contrive to make a good subsistence on various seeds, and by fishing.
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When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make.
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The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song.
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