Arrangements

Examples

• He won't be here this three-quarters of an hour or more,' said the young lady who superintended the domestic arrangements of the Blue Boar. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Having completed these arrangements, he walked up to the gate, to read the bill. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Now, about the pecuniary arrangements between us--do tell me--are they satisfactory? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• There must be something short-sighted in the eternal arrangements, surely! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• There he made all the necessary arrangements for having the Diamond cut into separate stones. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Intense loyalty to the queen mother is apparent in all their activities and arrangements. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Are all your arrangements complete? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• But at this time his arrangements had most of them gone no farther than a stage at which he could recall them if they proved to be unnecessary. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Ah, she said, I envy Gerty that power she has of dressing up with romance all our ugly and prosaic arrangements! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• These arrangements is made by mutual consent between Mrs Boffin and me. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• As, of course, all family arrangements fell into the hands of servants, St. Clare found his menage anything but comfortable. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Quietly and steadily have all these arrangements made in the courtyard here, even to the taking of your own seat in the carriage. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I'd made all my arrangements--I very nearly crossed you in the train. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• A supper-table, glittering with plate and cut glass, was set out, on whose arrangements our former friend, old Chloe, was presiding. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• He went and made arrangements for the departure on the morrow. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• In both instances he connected the end plate of one kind with the opposite end plate of the other kind by a wire, and in both arrangements produced a current of electricity. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Mr Boffin seemed rather inclined to object to these precautionary arrangements, but, being immediately embraced by Wegg, resigned himself. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• This difficulty was overcome by Mr. Taylor, and the arrangements were completed, and the experiment was tried in 1788. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• As my business arrangements had not been very perfectly made, I lost the usual amount. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• We owe you many apologies, ma'am,' said Mr. Pickwick, 'for disturbing your domestic arrangements at so short a notice. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• It was easy to make my further arrangements; for I was troubled with no inquiries--no surmises. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• And, placing water in his reach, and making whatever little arrangements for his comforts she could, Cassy left the shed. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• There were few preparatory arrangements to be made for the marriage of Mr. Snodgrass. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Edison and his company, therefore, rejected the offer unconditionally and declined to enter into any arrangements whatever with Goebel. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• His constructions, his formal creeds, his law-making and social arrangements are local and temporary--for us they can have only an antiquarian interest. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• In wirtue o' vich, them arrangements is to be made as I told you on, last night, respectin' the funs. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Not as a business matter, for these arrangements are usually verbal, and there was no earthly business reason why this should be an exception. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• He thought it a pretty sight to see the two cousins so busy in their little arrangements about the table. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The new arrangements do approach this latter more closely than any previous system of boundaries. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The interference by social arrangements with Nature, God's work, is the primary source of corruption in individuals. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

Checker: Pamela