86 Metaphors for planning

Nature's plan is wondrous kind Could we understand her mind ...

" I cannot truly say that Sergeant Corney convinced us his plan was the best; but certain it is we were silenced, as was no more than proper, since it stood to reason he knew best about such affairs.

" This stopped the first squad; and seeing that my plan was a success, I remained at my post during the passage of the entire command and kept out all intruders.

" "I understand all that," said Jim, who saw that the plan was only a simple precaution against drawing suspicion to them; "

This plan should become, by your influence, the text of all the bailiwick memorials.

The plan was hers, every thought of it, and now she saw him safely stored in the forecastle.

In its inception the plan was almost exclusively Pre-Raphaelite, but extended itself, on after-consideration, so far as to admit the worthiest artists of the conventional stamp.

My elaborate plan for the capture of burglars was no exception to the rule.

But your plan is the bestif you really mean it.

Its plan is quite simple consisting of a nave and choir with north and south aisles, a transept not projecting beyond the aisles at either end and a central tower.

His photograph at this time has a worn, hunted look, and he has become addicted to cold baths, of which his new plan was the coldest of all.

The plan of the church is cruciform, the tower (which is octagonal) being placed in the angle formed by the N. transept and the chancel.

In both cases the plans are the most complete and progressive ever made.

The plan of a gradual succession of teeth is a beautiful provision of nature, permitting the jaws to increase in size, and preserving the relative position and regularity of the successive teeth.

A plan of the intended constitution, entitled "the [Footnote 1: Lilburne in his youth had been a partisan of Bastwick, and had printed one of his tracts in Holland.

" A plan for appointing presidents of provinces had been a favourite with the late deputy, Sussex, and was now revived.

The course of the canal appeared to him to be something quite new; the plan of it and the guide-books were quite foreign objects to him: he turned them and turned themfor

" Le Grange's Plan "The whole fact is this Joe, I am in an awkward fix.

The plan was a piece of calculated savagery in which murder and outrage were considered means to accomplish a purpose.

The plan he proposed was too plainly their only way of escape from a terrible death.

Remains of the Celtic age are practically non-existent beneath Winchester, though the surrounding hills are plentifully strewn with them, and if Roman antiquities occasionally turn up when the foundations of new buildings are being prepared, any plan of the Roman town is pure conjecture.

'I have thought long,' said I, 'and I have made a plana plan which cannot be effective without your consent and co-operation: and the plan is this: we go from this place togetherthis same nightto some unknown spot, some town, say a hundred miles henceby train.

The plan of it is the life-story of a group of persons in a provincial factory town in those Victorian days when trade-unions were first starting, when the caricaturists lived upon Mr. GLADSTONE'S collars and the Irish Question was very much in the same state as it is to-day.

Her plan was not the outgrowth of a whim; it was the result of a tremendous motive conceived in the depths of her soul.

Another plan proposed was the revival of the old colonization idea of sending Negroes to Africa, but this exhibited still less wisdom than the first in that it was based on the hypothesis of deporting a nation, an expense which no government would be willing to incur.

86 Metaphors for  planning