Schemes

Examples

• I had seven different schemes for getting a glimpse of that telegram, but I could hardly hope to succeed the very first time. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Norfolk was what he had mostly to talk of: there he had been some time, and everything there was rising in importance from his present schemes. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• My trusty dog watched the sheep as I slipped away to the rendezvous of my comrades, and thence to the accomplishment of our schemes. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I share this horror when certain socialists begin to propound their schemes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Now tell me what your schemes are, or I will reveal all I know of you to Maurice Roylands. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• A number of schemes had floated in men's minds for the attainment of that end. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Indeed, I have some schemes of my own, which you and I will talk about on our own hearth one day. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• We, a commercial people, were obliged to bring such schemes under consideration; and the question of contagion became matter of earnest disquisition. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Now human nature and the changing social forces it generates are the very material which fit least well into most little schemes of things. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• And as to being in a hurry to put money into schemes--it won't do, you know. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But the question to me is, Is there not a God above all man's schemes? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• We begin to read less and less of the schemes and ambitions of King This or That, and more of the Designs of France or the Ambitions of Prussia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Men made sly and crude schemes to corner it, to hoard it, to send up prices by releasing hoarded metals. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This was not what he had intended; but other schemes would not be hindered: they would simply adjust themselves anew. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Other schemes, too, came into her head. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• In her kind schemes for Elizabeth, she sometimes planned her marrying Colonel Fitzwilliam. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• They're the best schemes afloat. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• During the progress of the pestilence he had entered upon various schemes, by which to acquire adherents and power. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I have told you all the schemes of your enemies. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• He interested Fulton in his schemes and gradually weaned his thoughts away from art to civil engineering. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Admirable schemes for banking development were available, and he made use of them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• To all sorts of new and crazy social schemes. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• No class of public-spirited and trustworthy men remained; no senate nor council shared and developed his schemes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Other schemes were proposed at different times down to the close of the century. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• People don't come with grudges and schemes of finishing their practice with live targets, I hope? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• However, it is all over now, and of all my schemes nothing remains. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• He was very much occupied perfecting new commercial schemes, protecting his patents from a horde of pirates, and planning to introduce his invention into Europe. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I will neither help you nor thwart you; so you can do as you please, but I don't think you'll succeed in your schemes. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• They pursued schemes in which the welfare of Carthage was no doubt subordinated to the advantage of their own group. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Here we cannot attempt to disentangle his schemes, much less to judge him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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