Contriving [verb]

If any of her work were turned into a screenplay, there would be no need to contrive sets or costumes.

Wonderful ingenuity has been shown in contriving a means to enable people to ascend the Wetterhorn Mountain in Switzerland.

Before church time walking with my father in the garden contriving.

Now they were this day contriving to get her presently to marry one Hayes that was there, and I did seem to persuade her to it.

My thoughts had been almost entirely occupied in contriving means to get into prison.

Rash young creatures, elder of them hardly above five-and-twenty yet: not good at contriving measures.

Have not later generations the same faculty as the earlier of contriving schemes to reach their ends?

Even as a child he busied himself with contriving and constructing mechanical appliances, mostly toys.

Their first trip was marked by an accident—Williams contriving to overturn the boat.

If ever there were a pair of artful, contriving, scheming humbugs, it is this worthy couple.