Carlyle concluded that Barrère had concocted a "cunningly devised fable", and changed his account of the sinking of the Vengeur in subsequent editions.

Callicles maintains that only power should rule because that is the law of nature and that all constraints on power are the chains cunningly devised by the weak to control the strong.

Or take another indie band of the moment, Belle and Sebastian, a cunningly devised sequel to the 80's indie band the Smiths.

Such scenes, coming of forethought, were they world-great, and never so cunningly devised, are at bottom mainly pasteboard and paint.

As a final tribute to that feminine instinct which knows no race she drew from some cunningly devised hiding place a small, cheap "vanity box," and proceeded very gravely to powder her nose.

CHAPTER 23 Reprogramming We have not followed cunningly devised fables... but were eyewitnesses.

Here he fumbled about for a moment until his fingers found the hidden catch that held the cunningly devised door in place.

The Tripods were not the Masters, as some had thought, but merely cunningly devised machines that carried them through the world outside.

But the Professor was fenced round with safeguards so cunningly devised that, do what I would, it seemed impossible to get evidence which would convict in a court of law.

TWO days later, he came across a log deadfall, so cunningly devised and so skilfully set that it had crushed a full-grown otter.