Do we say plane or plain

plane 2133 occurrences

An enemy plane came over and bombed Treviso, when we were in the station square, trying in vain to find a conveyance.

But if the Government will grievously err, if they carry out the sentences, the people will equally err if they give way to anger or grief over the hanging if it has unfortunately to take plane.

There was a pretty little running exercise up and down a gently inclined plane that was in great favor at the school; and when the three swung down from the bars, Alice proposed that they should try the race-track, as they called it.

There is little to show that diplomacy has been raised to a higher plane or has won a better reputation in the world at large than it possessed before the nations assembled at Paris to make peace.

When he returned he began to teach the doctrines of his master, which he did, like him, gratuitously, in a garden near Athens, planted with lofty plane-trees and adorned with temples and statues.

The tools used by the carpenters, as appear from the representations on the monuments, were the axe, the adze, the hand-saw, the chisel, the drill, and the plane.

It took many years for her to reach this plane, to attain to the fulness of this close spiritual communion with things seen and unseen.

2. Geometry demonstrated by Lines & Numbers; from thence, Astronomy, Cosmgraphy, and Navigation proved and delineated by the Doctrine of Plane and Spherical Trangles: by T. Wilsford.

Driving a plane through clouds, mist and sunshine for hours had made every nerve alert.

Had he really been misdirected by the compass on the plane?

To prove that he had not, he drew from his pocket a small compass, and placing it in a spot of moonlight, took the relative direction of the last ridge over which they had passed and the plane in the wheat-field.

He wished they had brought the rifles from the plane.

But Barney, missing a familiar pungent odor that should go with such a breakfast in a wilderness, hurried back to the plane to return with a coffee pot and a sack of coffee.

True, they had spent twelve days repairing the damage done to the plane by the wind and its collision with the white bear, but it was a rather patched-up affair now it was finishedas it needs must be with the few materials and tools at their command.

"Well, here's hoping," he murmured to Bruce, as the plane hopped off.

Observations from the plane were impossible.

But suddenly, as they were soaring over the wildest, most treacherous-looking stretch of floe ice that eyes have ever rested upon, the plane gave a lurch.

With the added weight to the right the plane became steadier.

"What a landing-place!" groaned Barney, almost touching the starting lever in his eagerness to save the plane.

Tilting the left plane to its utmost, adjusting the tail, Barney glided onward.

The moving plane fairly ate up the scant level space, yet she slowed and slowed until at last, with hardly a tremor, she rested against the outcropping ridge of ice at the floe's edge.

He found them in front of the plane calling to him for assistance.

Within a space of moments, the plane, unless turned and thrust backward, would be crushed beneath hundreds of tons of ice.

"We'd better get our stuff and what's left of the plane out of the way of danger," said Bruce at length.

"The stuffblankets, grub and the like, yes, but"Barney smiled in spite of himself"why the plane?

plain 14170 occurrences

His dress was very plain and simple, and the fashion of it between the Asiatic and the European; but he had on his head a light helmet of gold, adorned with jewels, and a plume on the crest.

" "Your feeling of the position is very correct," said Goethe; "indeed, I have doubted whether I ought not to put some verses into the mouth of Mephistopheles as he goes to Wagner, and the Homunculus is still in a state of formation, so that his cooperation may be expressed and rendered plain to the reader.

I come to the plain issue before you.

The majority of the jury were ready to convict, if they felt sure that Mr. Truelove would not be punished, but one of them boldly declared in Court: "As to the book, it is written in plain language for plain people, and I think that many more persons ought to know what the contents of the book are".

Men clamor for a new version of the Sacred Scriptures, and profess to be shocked at its plain outspokenness, forgetting that to the pure all things are pure, and that to the prurient all things are foul.

He rose from table convinced that the woman whom he once loved with the whole fervor of youth and strength and buoyant life was no more, that she did not exist, and that Mr. Raleigh might experience a new passion, but his old one was as dead as the ashes that cover the Five Cities of the Plain.

loveliest building of the plain Where Cherwell winds towards the distant main; How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared the scene!

all these charms are fled, Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And rude pavilions sadden all thy green; One selfish pastime grasps the whole domain, And half a faction swallows up the plain; Adown thy glades,

This will contain Problems worked out in the dark, Logarithms without Tables, Sines and angles do., a paper I am now writing on "Infinities and Infinitesimals," condensed Long Multiplication, and perhaps others. (4) Euclid V. (5) "Plain Facts for Circle-Squarers," which is nearly complete, and gives actual proof of limits 3.14158, 3.14160.

" In accordance with his expressed wish, the funeral was simple in the extremeflowers, and flowers only, adorned the plain coffin.

The beasts | that roam o | -ver the plain,

Oh, for the antique world, its plain passion, its plain joys in the sea, where the Triton blew a plaintive blast, and the forest where the whiteness of the nymph was seen escaping!

Oh, for the antique world, its plain passion, its plain joys in the sea, where the Triton blew a plaintive blast, and the forest where the whiteness of the nymph was seen escaping!

Your hair was reddish brown, and your face wore that plain honest look that is so essentially English.

UPON THE PLAIN Beth awoke early Christmas morning, and leaned out of the window to look at the East.

I would keep up the play as well as I could, but soon some luckless word would show that I was only plain Jock Calder of West Inch, and out would come her lip again in scorn of me.

Edie had been kinder than usual the night before, and I had fallen asleep with the thought that maybe at last I had caught the rainbow, and that without any imaginings or make-believes she was learning to love plain, rough Jock Calder of West Inch.

se pourrait-il que l'homme, ancien forçat, Que l'esprit humain, vieux reptile, Devînt ange et, brisant le carcan qui le mord, Fût soudain de plain-pied avec les cieux?

Mountains in the distance, seen over a plain, appear very much nearer than they are, and these two poor fellows walked and walked, until they were pretty nearly dead.

From the letter of September 17th it is plain that Bettina indulged, in all seriousness, the fanciful notion that her inspiration was, in a sense, necessary to Goethe's fame.

Hence I am rather of the opinion that the attack in the mountains which surround our plain did not take place very far from here.

The estate lay entirely alone on the border of the fertile plain, at the point where it passes over into hilly woodland; indeed, the Justice's last fields lay on a gentle slope, and a mile away were the mountains.

From the foot of the hills the fields ran down in beautiful order across the plain.

I'll tell yuh in plain American what you are, if yuh don't git outa here.

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Do we say   plane   or  plain