" "Why do you propose such a plan as that?"

He proposed an amendment to the Constitution, to provide that a dinner of at least three courses should be given to cows daily.

I wish to inform such, that Mr. Dundas, afterwards Lord Melville, an acute Man, and a Friend to the Planters, proposed this very measure to Parliament in the year 1792.

She said I had no business to lead the poor girl on, in a manner of speaking, and walk out with her, and pay her marked attention, and then not propose marriage like a gentleman.'

The Japanese took the lead in proposing healths and toasts, and were by no means the most backward in drinking them.

Who dares insult me proposing such a thing?

She proposed to an academy the question of serf emancipation as a subject for their prize essay.

"Don't finish up your cocoa," he began, "because, before we dissolve the Alliance, I'm going to propose a toast.

There was a hint that they were about to assume the helm when the rank and file of union workers voted down at the conference of the Women's Trade Union League the resolution proposing a law to forbid women acting as conductors.

It is clear that four years before a Philadelphia merchant, one Peletiah Webster, had published a brochure proposing a scheme of dual sovereignty, under which the citizens would owe a double allegianceone to the constituent States within the sphere of their reserved powers, and one to a federated government within the sphere of its delegated powers.

If we take a view, my lords, of their late conduct, without suffering our desires to mislead our understandings, we shall find no reason for imagining, that they propose any sudden alteration of their conduct, which has been hitherto consistent and steady, and appears to arise from established principles, which nothing has lately happened to incline them to forsake.

I have often heard political men who deplored and condemned the law say that no minister would dare to propose a change.

One was the remnant of the Mexican army, which slunk silently and noiselessly through the northern gate, and fled to Guadalupe-Hidalgo; the other was a body of officers who came under a white flag, to propose terms of capitulation.

GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN proposed an alliance with her for the purpose of hurling imperial jackassery from its tottering throne.

I am simply about to propose a game.

The girl and I had no share in the conversation; indeed, we were clearly out of place: so she could not refuse when I proposed a walk in the garden.

My chief purpose and warmest desire being to secure to the peasants as soon as possible their personal freedom and complete liberty of labor, I proposed a method of emancipation, claiming the entire property of their homes; that is to say, cottages and orchards and a small quantity of arable land, and that without the slightest indemnity from them to their masters, which was to be left to the Government.

Hunt proposing a vote of thanks to Lord Anglesey and O'Connell, and Lord Darnley!

At this meeting I proposed a resolution which has proved to be exceedingly important.

Because these simple ideas that co-exist, and are united in the same subject, being very numerous, and having all an equal right to go into the complex specific idea which the specific name is to stand for, men, though they propose to themselves the very same subject to consider, yet frame very different ideas about it; and so the name they use for it unavoidably comes to have, in several men, very different significations.

" "I did want to come, but I really think you proposed the visit," Ruth remarked.

He points outquite correctly, I am afraidthat as the conditions as to burial have not been complied with, the property must come to him, and he proposes a very neat little arrangement, which is this: That I shall support him and Jellicoe in their application for permission to presume death and administer the will, and that he shall pay me four hundred a year for life; the arrangement to hold good in all eventualities.

I proposed the abolition of the octroi duties and of the duty on liquors.

When, half a century ago, John Quincy Adams proposed the establishment of an astronomical observatory, at a cost of $100,000, it was ridiculed by the newspapers, considered Utopian, and dismissed from the public mind.

One of them, who had drunk less than the others, came up to me and very civilly proposed a match.