411 collocations for plan

In planning their future she looked into her own heart instead of into theirs.

His son, Ethelwulf, who came to his throne in 836, was to see Winchester itself stormed before the invaders were beaten off; but beaten off they were, and it was in Winchester that Alfred was to reign, to give forth his laws and to plan his campaigns against the same enemy.

They planned bad things against my boy.

And yet, when we have thought and planned a really great and abiding work, whether we ever finish it or notfor many things in life may intervene between conception and completionto have thought of it is to have had in our lives a pleasure that can never die.

The first scene is the magician's cave where he plans his evil schemes.

This afternoon I learned that the Indians had planned an attack upon this place to-night.

I plan this trip so that I move counter to the procession that goes uptown in the late afternoon.

Here they walked through some vast halls, where students were working at easels, doing every kind of beautiful work: some painting pictures, some preparing drawings, planning houses and palaces.

CHAPTER XVII DAWSON TELEPHONES FOR A SURGEON I have never been able to plan this book upon any system which would hold together for half a dozen consecutive chapters.

After innumerable resolutions formed and neglected, I have retired hither, to plan a life of greater diligence, in hope that I may yet be useful, and be daily better prepared to appear before my Creator and my Judge, from whose infinite mercy I humbly call for assistance and support.

This was a very fortunate circumstance; for he planned an expedition for us of more variety than merely going to Mull.

he was a foolto copy his identical thoughts: "a gol dum blithering idjit!" All the way home he reflected dismally upon his lack of business foresight, and strove to plan ways to get money "out'n thet easy mark.

During this interval my mind was absorbed with our project; and when in company, I was so thoughtful and abstracted, that it has since seemed strange to me that Sing Fou's suspicions that I was planning my escape were not more excited.

If a general has reason to think that a tower or minaret is being used as an observation post, or that a church or mosque is sheltering a body of troops, there are those who hold that he is justified in deliberately planning its destruction, but here was a sacred building with associations held in reverence by all classes and creeds in a land where these things are counted high, and to have set about wrecking it was a crime.

Being now quite independent of him, she spoke of it to her fatherto every one; she sought garments of the colour and taste that she knew Edoardo liked; she imagined and planned a thousand surprises.

As coolly as another might sell a bolt of cloth, he would plan murder and rape, and then smilingly watch the execution.

He passed from court and study to plan buildings and instruct craftsmen in gold work, to teach even falconers and dog-keepers their business.

I think that this consideration ought not to be put out of sight in planning the courses of different Observatories.

The General sits in a quiet room far behind the lines, planning a battle he will never see.

Her heart felt lighter than it had been for some time when she set about planning the wedding.

Pitt, however, selected good leaders and planned a comprehensive method of warfare against France, both in Europe and in the colonies.

" Mr. Buxton was nearer happiness at this reply than he had ever been since his wife's death; for the only way he could devise to satisfy his reproachful conscience towards his neglected and unhappy sister, was to plan a marriage between his son and her child.

Birchill, who had been living on the girl, was furious with anger when he learnt that Sir Horace had cut off the monetary allowance he had been making her, and, on discovering by some means that his former prison associate Hill was now the butler at Sir Horace Fewbanks's house, he planned his revenge.

On our way back to camp after these first observations I planned a far-and-wide excursion for the morrow.

Every executive officer has a general knowledge of each subject, but it is not possible for any one officer to possess the knowledge of all three which is gained by the specialist, and if attempts are made to plan operations without the assistance of the specialists grave errors may be made, and, indeed, such errors were made during the late war, perhaps from this cause.

411 collocations for  plan