Projects

Examples

• Traders and other undertakers may, no doubt with great propriety, carry on a very considerable part of their projects with borrowed money. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I have my projects and my plans here in my big head. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Los Angeles is undertaking one of the greatest municipal projects of the day. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• I revolved many projects; but that on which I finally fixed was, to enter the dwelling when the blind old man should be alone. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• She wrote out his numerous memorials, letters, prospectuses, and projects. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The four people of whom I inquired gave me four different accounts of his plans and projects when he left Knowlesbury. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• These caveats served their purpose thoroughly in many instances, but there have remained a great variety of projects upon which no definite action was ever taken. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• A sober and parsimonious people, who are strangers to all such projects, do not feel that they have occasion for any such concealment. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• This stud projects from the fact and near the edge of a small steel disc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Before their projects can be brought to bear, their stock is gone, and their credit with it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The ruin of their credit, and the miscarriage of their projects, they foresee, would too often be the consequence. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Dear uncle, you know, has many projects. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• A wooden peg, a foot and a half high, with two slight crooks or curves in one side of it and one in the other, projects above the starboard gunwale. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Small republics have sometimes derived a considerable revenue from the profit of mercantile projects. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In a country where the ordinary profits of stock, in the greater part of mercantile projects, are supposed to run between six and ten per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• His name as Protector was the burthen of every tongue; his achievements, projects, and magnificence, the argument of every story. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He has always the wherewithal to back up his projects; they strengthen France and never weaken her. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I want to know how you are to be kept out of danger, how long you are going to stay, what projects you have. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• It is quite true that children tend to exaggerate their powers of execution and to select projects that are beyond them. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• They think the feelings and projects of others on the subject of love similar to their own, and judge them accordingly. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Let her keep to her own matrimonial projects--if she has any. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The council-chamber was deserted; the crowds which attended on him as agents to his various projects were neglected. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• And you have found me, said Cedric, ready to resume our brave projects of honour and liberty. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I sweep your cobweb projects from my path, that I may pass on unsullied. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Afterwards we will have time for other projects. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• While this quotation refers to the method as simple, the patent under consideration covers one of the most bold and daring projects that Edison has ever evolved. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Such comparisons, however, between the profit and expense of new projects are commonly very fallacious; and in nothing more so than in agriculture. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Their mercantile projects were not much better conducted. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The priming pan is fitted with a sliding cover, and a vertical wheel with a serrated edge projects into it, nearly in contact with the powder in the pan. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• You show that you carry your business cares an projects about, instead of leaving them in the City, or wherever else they belong to,' said Mrs Merdle. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.

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