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He, full of fraudful arts, This well-invented tale for truth imparts: 'Ye lamps of heav'n!' he said, and lifted high His hands now free, 'thou venerable sky!

From The Aeneid English by Virgil

A certain portion of moral instruction must accompany every well-invented narrative.

From Famous Reviews by Johnson, R. Brimley

I might, it is true, find some stranger bound for the Italian coast, and with a well-invented tale about the vessel I had quitted, persuade them to carry me whither I may determine to go.”

From The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea by Tilney, F.C.

What means the bull, Unconscious of his strength, to play the coward, And flee before a feeble thing like man, That, knowing well the slackness of his arm, Trusts only in the well-invented knife?

From The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes by Gilfillan, George

But even if the anecdote be not well-invented, the invitation must have been more jest than earnest.

From De Libris: Prose and Verse by Dobson, Austin