He could never have been responsible for the crude device that's attached to the underside of my bed.

A crude device, really, lacking any sort of technical elegance.

This crude device showed two hours to go until the next contact.

The Shadow had turned that crude device to his own use.

But the crude device placed that night turned out to be a bombshell of a different sort.

And cross-dressing - potentially a crude device - is used to especially powerful effect.

It was probably all the gold Nelson had panned out in a couple of years, working alone and with crude devices.

Yes, it is true that I am a fairly crude device.

In its heyday, circa 1920, the player piano was a rather crude device.

This is only a crude device to prevent you getting on the track of these scoundrels.