Cook says Omai "would take no advice, but permitted himself to be made the dupe of every designing knave."

'The auditors,' he was assured, 'were mostly weak, well-meaning people, who were inclined to Methodism;' but among the speakers were 'some designing villains, and a few coxcombs, with more wit than understanding.'

That greatest and best of men, who served his country so long and loved it so much, foresaw with "serious concern" the danger to our Union of "characterizing parties by geographical discriminationsNorthern and Southern, Atlantic and Westernwhence designing men may endeavor to excite a belief that there is a real difference of local interests and views," and warned his countrymen against it.

Sir Eric held the view that inspection should come under the officials in charge of production and that the designing staff should also be under him, the designs being drawn up to meet the views of the naval officers and finally approved by them.

Young Hermes next, a close-contriving god, Her brows encircled with his serpent rod; 70 Then plots, and fair excuses, fill'd her brain, The views of breaking amorous vows for gain, The price of favours, the designing arts That aim at riches in contempt of hearts; And for a comfort in the marriage life, The little, pilfering temper of a wife.

Poor Garibaldi is made a tool of by a set of designing intriguers, who will sacrifice him at any moment.

how often he would break loose from Lady Dorchester's designing care, long before she thought it right for him to do so, and 'command' his partners for their pretty faces instead of by precedence.

Nor could our nobles hope their bold attempt 30 Who ruin'd crowns would coronets exempt: For when by their designing leaders taught To strike at power, which for themselves they sought, The vulgar, gull'd into rebellion, arm'd; Their blood to action by the prize was warm'd.

She has become the victim of her own indiscretion, and of the intrigue and artifice of a designing libertine, who is the husband of another.

His high designing thoughts were figured there.

This goodly world is not the patch-work of many and different gods, but of one designing mind,one executing power; and that one, Jehovah.

'She is a designing minx,' exclaimed Lesbia, 'and has set her cap at that man from the very beginning.'

It is easy to see that under such legislation everybody holds his land not only subject to public need, but to the greed of any designing neighbor.

The automobile has become less of a designing proposition and more of a manufacturing proposition; less of an engineering problem and more of a factory problem.

[Footnote 1: In Moratin's play the niña has married the old man after a designing relative has assured her that her youthful lover has married someone else.

It must have permanent guardians, and it can never exercise its rights itself, without creating dangers of which no one can foresee the end; especially as like all minors, it is very apt to become the sport of designing sharpers, in the shape of what are called demagogues.

The Duchess had penetrated her designing character, and regarded her with a prejudice, as violent as was her nature.

The second operation of making the pieces that go into the structure is simply the following out of the clearly drawn plans furnished by the designing engineers.

"An honest, tender mind," she says, "is betrayed to ruin by the charms that make the fortune of a designing head, which, when joined with a beautiful face, can never fail of advancement, except barred by a wise mother, who locks up her daughters from view till nobody cares to look on them."