Fountains and flower-beds abound on all sides in these inviting grounds, the sylvan aspect being carefully and ingeniously preserved.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
To locate the drawer without the woman's help would have been a difficult task, for it was ingeniously hidden in an apparently solid portion of the desk.
"The Gray Phantom's Return"
Herman Landon
The struggle on this subject began as early as 1847, and the government has been strong enough to declare that an effort to bring influence to bear will be treated as an offence on the part of the employee; or as the minutes adopted by the Treasury in 1867, and by the Admiralty a couple of years later, ingeniously and forcibly express it, the attempt by a public officer to support his application by any solicitation on the part of members of Parliament, or other persons of influence, will be treated .
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell