Outlines

Examples

• To go thither, to escape across the Ohio river, were the first hurried outlines of her plan of escape; beyond that, she could only hope in God. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• It outlines his plan for the establishment of the American Philosophical Society. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Such have been the general outlines of the policy of the different European nations with regard to their colonies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Far ahead of us and a trifle to the right we could distinguish the outlines of low mountains. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• You cannot go to any of the great philosophers even for the outlines of a statecraft which shall be fairly complete, and relevant to American life. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Much of this map is of course speculative, but its broad outlines must be fairly like those of the world in which men first became men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• However, the intense darkness dilated the pupils of our eyes so as to make them very sensitive, and we could just see at times the outlines of the road. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It has to be remembered that the outlines of the land of the world have changed greatly even in the last hundred centuries. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I shall endeavour to explain, however, as distinctly as I can, the great outlines of this very ingenious system. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• This diagram represents the outlines of a near object, as seen by each eye separately. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• By lamplight at home he worked out pencil outlines of a machine which would write figures and at the same time add them. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Then there was energy and attention to business until its dusky outlines came in sight again. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Wordsworth at times postponed the description of a scene that appealed to his poetic fancy with the express purpose of blurring the outlines, but enhancing the personal factor. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• As the printing is done directly from the type, the letters are formed with sharp and clear outlines that give beauty and neatness to the print. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• But the new thing did not fit into the little outlines and verbosities which served as a philosophy for our political hacks. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The outlines of the cypresses that lined it were sharp and clear. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.

Typist: Lottie