Projected

Examples

• Selden, with a slight laugh, sat down beside her on the little sofa which projected from the hearth. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Confused, Mr. Huskisson tried to go around the open door of the carriage, which projected over the opposite rail. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It is true that the tower commanded a pretty view by land and water, but Colonel Sellers himself might have projected this enterprise as a possible source of steady income. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• They projected so far, and they rolled about so loosely, that you wondered uneasily why they remained in their sockets. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He projected great pilgrimages and a monastic life. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• May I hope for the honour of your hand for the two first dances of this little projected ball, to be given, not at Randalls, but at the Crown Inn? Jane Austen. Emma.
• Presently another old gentleman was projected from the same door with great violence. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In a doleful voice Mrs. Bennet began the projected conversation: Oh! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• We ought to know a little something about the composition of this film on which the image has been projected. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The main entrance was some hundred feet in width and projected from the building proper to form a huge canopy above the entrance hall. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• From the scabbard on the right of his saddle projected the stock and the long oblong clip of a short automatic rifle. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The men who were back of this railroad would very probably never have projected it had they realized that the building of it would cost five million pounds. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Mr. Holmes, Mr. Holmes, he said, turning the front of his coat and exhibiting the butt of a large revolver, which projected from the inside pocket. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• In 1880 Muybridge produced, in San Francisco, the ‘Zoopraxiscope,’ which projected pictures (on glass positives) on a screen. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• There was a sort of disk or moving-shutter movement which, on revolving, gave projected objects the appearance of animation. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• His complexion was of a gipsy darkness; his fleshless cheeks had fallen into deep hollows, over which the bone projected like a pent-house. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Water was projected by squeezing the bags. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Her introductions and recommendations must all wait, and every projected party be still only talked of. Jane Austen. Emma.
• He began, instead of answering, to speak of his projected economies, and of his having come to look at his life from a different point of view. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The mouth--a little while ago, so sullenly projected in defiance--was relaxed and livid. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Amy has, at this present writing, a great deal of work on her hands, owing to our general change or projected change of administration. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The cutter bar projected at the side. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• There certainly was much aggravation of sin in my projected intercourse with the Marquis of Worcester. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The words were projected sharply against Lily's silence, and she saw in a flash that her own act had given them their emphasis. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• In the position in which I stood, my shadow was projected in front of me by the last slanting rays of the sun. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Not a penny had been added to the money sewn in her dress: what her honest spirit had so long projected, was fulfilled. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The eaves projected nearly twenty feet from the wall to which I clung, and though I encircled the great building I could find no opening through them. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• He even struck a medal and erected a column at Boulogne to commemorate the triumph of this projected invasion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The immense advantages of this mode of travelling were at once apparent, and lines of railway in different parts of the country were quickly projected. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• But before long the great metropolis of London required railroad communication with the Midlands, and the London and Birmingham road was projected. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

Typist: Montague