Does this seem very bare worldly scheming among young girls who should simply have been having a good time?

He is continually scheming as to how he may protect himself against his enemies, being too self-centered to perceive that he is his own enemy.

Joy deliberately schemed for and planned is apt to evaporate.

He proved the impracticability of reforming by sudden bounds, and of introducing changes haughtily schemed on the heights of official self-complacencychanges which were not justified by any intimate acquaintance with the country, nor by a living faith in any ideal, not even in one of negation, and in illustration of this he adduced his own education.

Julius would have enjoyed scheming involvedly, but Waldron had been too peremptory about that to allow of a particle of intrigue.

But after this he devised and founded an ingenious organisation for consolidating the literary interests of all the four continents (subsequently including Australasia and Polynesia), he himself presiding in the central office, which thus became a new theatre for the constantly repeated situation of an astonished stranger in the presence of a boldly scheming administrator found to be remarkably young.

Europe was in the throes of the Napoleonic disturbance, and for more than twenty-five years both France and England schemed, sometimes openly and sometimes secretly, for the possession of Cuba.

And now, if your words have the meaning I read into them, you are mooting precisely the same drivelling scheme.

The scheme, although no Christian scheme could be wholly dislinked from religion, was yet most prominently a social scheme; its origin was The Salvation Army, but it was intended to promote the work of the common Church.

This system permits the separate divisions to fight near each other, and leaves room for the withdrawal of a reserve, the formation of a detachment, or the employment of the subdivisions in lines (Treffen), for the principle of the wing attack must not be allowed to remain merely a scheme.