In his fiction, he used devices borrowed from classical and traditional works, as well as formal rhetoric.

The idea of such an animating spirit even applies to devices borrowed from age-old non-Western traditions.

The first successful measurement of heart activity was made on October 29, 1953 using a device borrowed from the ship construction company Kockums in Malmö.

Urdu extensively uses Izāfat, a morphological device borrowed from Persian, to make nominal compounds.

In Act I, several short all-dialogue scenes are punctuated with equally short go-go dances, an endearing device borrowed from the weekly party sketch on the 60's television show "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In."

It might be noted that a few months earlier he denounced runoffs as a racist device borrowed from the Jim Crow South.

Glubok, South, and Grue, North, were using a special device borrowed from Nick Nickell.

Proponents of the system say that while no computer can guarantee victory, this device, borrowed from commercial advertising, as many other political marketing tools have been, can produce the sort of fast, detailed information that candidates and their consultants have craved.

There are two cup holders in front, including a simply elegant pop-out device borrowed from the 9-5 sedan, and two more in the rear.

Mr. Harvey uses the frontal stare - a device borrowed from magazine illustrations, mug shots and Chuck Close - to focus attention on an image that, even when broken down to visual shorthand, is immediately recognizable.