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We Americans are proud of being called a nation of inventors; and most of us have made, or almost made, private discoveries of an inventional nature which, for some reason, have never come to fruition.

From Some War-time Lessons The Soldier's Standards of Conduct; The War As a Practical Test of American Scholarship; What Have We Learned? by Keppel, Frederick P. (Frederick Paul)

This is not evinced so much in creative directions as in poetical, musical, combinatory, inventional and what, if coupled with learning, we call literary imagination.

From The Negro Problem by Fortune, Timothy Thomas

Her unusual relationship to the other children, based on the difference in age, was perhaps a starting point for the development of her inventional theories of her own origin.

From Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology by Healy, William

In view of the dinosaur nonsense she was already prepared for a variety of inventional talk from him.

From Over the Pass by Palmer, Frederick

The errors themselves are of the purely inventional type, such as your ordinary report from a mentally normal person does not contain.

From Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology by Healy, William