Plans

Examples

• Johnson and I went to the Charleston end to carry out Edison's plans, which were rapidly unfolded by telegraph every night from a loft on lower Broadway, New York. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I never made any plans about what I'd do when I grew up. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I will draw plenty of plans while I have time. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The _fad_ of drawing plans! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Raymond, while he knew that his plans and prospects were to be discussed and decided during the expected debate, was gay and careless. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Then I was compelled to change my plans and go upward in the air where real estate was cheap. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But we'll talk of that by and bye--tell me now where you're staying and what your plans are. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• She had heard nothing of him since her leaving London, nothing new of his plans, nothing certain even of his present abode. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• It was evident to me that he was becoming uneasy, and that his plans were not working out altogether as he had hoped. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The engineering establishment of Mr. Hall, at Dartford, in Kent, was selected as best adapted for the purpose of making the machinery and for carrying the plans into operation. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Nine years later Sir Isaac Newton, having studied Gregory’s plans, built the first reflecting telescope, which is now to be seen in the hall of the Royal Society in London. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The winter remained mild for an unusually long time--he could have escaped; but instead he remained in Moscow, making impossible plans, at a loss. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It will probably be the 5th of October before any of the plans herein indicated will be executed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• So even if the Commission had drawn splendid plans for housing, work conditions, education, and play it would have done only part of the task of statesmanship. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Colonel Rawlins showed me the letter, but I did not see any reason for changing my plans. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Inform me at the earliest practicable day of the time when you will embark, and such plans as may then be matured. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• One morning at breakfast, Diana, after looking a little pensive for some minutes, asked him, If his plans were yet unchanged. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• In this small building Edison has made some of his most important experiments in the process of working out his plans for the poured house. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I did not communicate my plans to the President, nor did I to the Secretary of War or to General Halleck. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I have my projects and my plans here in my big head. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Plans which had lately appeared to her in the guise of tasks, now appeared like pleasures. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Well, he proceeds, throwing off his disappointment, next and last, those plans of mine. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Edison tried a dozen different plans before he brought anything like order out of that engine chaos. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• What is the secret of Madame Fosco's unhesitating devotion of herself to the fulfilment of my boldest wishes, to the furtherance of my deepest plans? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Instead of my being on the defensive, I would be on the offensive; instead of guessing at what he means to do, he would have to guess at my plans. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I can substitute some other plans. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I'm sorry to interfere with your plans,' said Bitzer, shaking his head, 'but I can't allow myself to be done by horse-riders. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• All went on cheerfully now; we met as usual, and talked without dread of our future plans. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Yet, to the best of my knowledge, no word of our real plans has reached the villain's ear. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• To the remaining members of the party Lily gave no special thought; wherever they were, they were not likely to interfere with her plans. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.

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