Слово "contrivance". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

When the liner nudged alongside it, Hoddan's last contrivance operated and the yacht clung fast to the larger ship's hull.

Till the next morning, however, she was not aware of all the felicity of her contrivance.

"And this," said she, "is the end of all his friend's anxious circumspection! of all his sister's falsehood and contrivance! the happiest, wisest, most reasonable end!"

If the universe is the contrivance of some being, that being can only be a criminal imbecile.”

"And this," said she, "is the end of all his friend's anxious circumspection! of all his sister's falsehood and contrivance! the happiest, wisest, most reasonable end!"

Till the next morning, however, she was not aware of all the felicity of her contrivance.

Karl was very clever at fixing pieces of cardboard together, and had devised this contrivance for shielding his weak eyes from any very strong light.

"I suppose the Big Four couldn't have had some diabolical contrivance concealed in the ceiling - something which descended automatically and cut the old man's throat and was afterwards drawn up again?"  

The cold-air process, that latest of scientific contrivances to arrest the waste of tissue, has now been applied at the Morgue to preserve and keep the bodies fresh, and allow them to be for a longer time exposed than when running water was the only aid.

Margaret's quickly-adjusted spirit-lamp was the most efficacious contrivance, though not so like the gypsy-encampment which Edith, in some of her moods, chose to consider the nearest resemblance to a barrack-life.