"Inventiveness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and so called after one of the troops of the Fatimite Caliphs. The name "Yamaniyah" is probably due to the story-teller's inventiveness. ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 6 • Richard F. Burton
... through study and experiment, to abolish child-labor, to promote public education, to encourage science art or American inventiveness? ...
— Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers • Arthur Brisbane
... there's no inventiveness, no brains in your head, oh, no!" rallied Griffith. "Wait till you make ...
— Out of the Primitive • Robert Ames Bennet
... owing to the prolonged efforts of Mr. Romfrey and Cecil Baskelett to get fun out of him, at the cost of considerable inventiveness, that the electoral Address of the candidate, signing himself 'R. C. S. Nevil Beauchamp,' to the borough of Bevisham, did not issue from ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... opening where Prometheus is nailed to the Scythian rock, and the close where the earthquake engulfs the rock, the hero and the chorus, action in the ordinary sense is ipso facto impossible. This is just the opportunity for the poet's bold inventiveness and fine imagination. The tortured sufferer is visited by the Oceanic Nymphs, who float in, borne by an (imaginary) winged car, to console; Oceanus (riding a griffin, doubtless also imaginary) follows, kind but timid, ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
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