Proposed

Examples

• He wished, too, that the officers should be appointed altogether by himself, and not be nominated by the people, as the bill had proposed. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I accordingly assembled my troop, and proposed to them this retrograde movement, instead of the continuation of our journey to Auxerre. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I now proceed to the second remarkable circumstance, which I proposed to take notice of. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• But the key was an instrument of such gigantic proportions, that before they started Riah proposed to carry it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It was proposed also to have submarine guns suspended from each bow. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• When it was thus settled on her sister's side, Emma proposed it to her friend, and found her very persuadable. Jane Austen. Emma.
• About a month before this period, some ingenious Frenchman had completed the discovery in the manner originally proposed by Dr. Franklin. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• He at length proposed to me travelling all over Europe together, supporting ourselves everywhere by working at our business. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• It is proposed to work as a unit plant for successful operation at least six sets of molds, to keep the men busy and the machinery going. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The method proposed ignores the human source: by a kind of poetic justice the great crowd of men will ignore the method. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Young Freeling was a gentleman, as far as grammar and eating with his fork went; and Fanny proposed our going to Covent Garden together that evening. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• These threads are proposed as prizes for those persons whom the emperor has a mind to distinguish by a peculiar mark of his favour. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• In the meantime, in 1801, Le Bon, a Frenchman at Paris, had succeeded in making illuminating gas from wood, lit his house therewith, and proposed to light the whole city of Paris. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• On the contrary, it appeared that she had proposed to herself the task of hiding that feeling, and bridling her lover's ardour. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• There were numerous other workers in the field, but they added nothing to what had already been proposed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• These were crimes his elders fretted over among themselves and proposed to punish when the opportunity should offer. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• My answer was the same as proposed in my reply to his letter. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Now, upon his father's marriage, it was very generally proposed, as a most proper attention, that the visit should take place. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Having received this order I went to New Orleans to confer with Banks about the proposed movement. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I went out, as I had proposed, to meet the messenger with my letter from London at the lodge gate. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He proposed to use gunpowder gas as the motive power. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Mr. Hale went the next morning, as he proposed. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• He has been proposed for the silver medal of valor. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Every day while I stayed with them, some little plan was proposed which resulted in beneficial enjoyment. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• No, not even when the sparkling host proposed that the quartette should take an appropriately sparkling glass of wine. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• May suddenly proposed. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• To prevent the possibility of this I proposed retiring into some quiet village in Devonshire. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I proposed to him to lend me the money on my note. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• He assured me that he now proposed to accompany me, if I still would permit him, to Astley's. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• He proposed in the recess--in the room that used to be a picture-gallery--that Sir Monckton converted into it saloon? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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