" The denouement of August 4th, 1914, when Belgian neutrality was declared a "scrap of paper,"[140] was not the inspiration of a moment, nor a decision arrived at under the pressure of necessity, but the result of years of military preparation and planning.

" IX "S.P." AND THE BARON Dinner was over, and the salon deserted by all but the two young ladies, who sat apart, apparently absorbed in novels, while each was privately longing for somebody to come, and with the charming inconsistency of the fair sex, planning to fly if certain somebodies did appear.

"Well, we had a merry time planning our prank.

For his warped, cruel brain was planning death to these two men.

In this particular case I informed the clever and able officers to whom the planning of the operation was entrusted that they were to proceed on the assumption that we intended to seal the enemy's ports somehow, and that they were to devise the best possible scheme, drawing up all the necessary orders for the operations.

"My daughter's husbandhe owned a farm up in Cayuga Countywell, he died and I was planning to go up there and live with her.

"But if that's what they're planning I just won't go!" said Amy to herself, after one of those queer confidences she had broken up.

"I wonder what they can be planning?" murmured Alice.

The forward movement of the plot begins with this careful planning of the route that Rip is to take on his return trip, when twenty years shall have done their work.

"My company is planning big developments in connection with our business.

I couldn't have dreamed you were planning such a pleasant surprise for me.

You are planning some more pleasant surprises for me.

Don't you see that that is part of Fate also, that I should have a brain which is capable of planning.

I never look forward for less than two years, and I have been busy all morning, Monsieur de Laval, in planning out the events which will occur in the autumn and winter of 1807.

"Sure he did, but not the thing, for nobody in the wide world would ever dream we were planning such an unheard of thing as a non-stop flight across the Atlantic.

Are you planning a trip to the moon, after Jules Verne's yarn?" "No.

"But this is something of a Herculean task you're planning, Colin.

"You see, I've got a date for a little jazz with Dave up at the Pole, and I'd like him to know I'm planning to keep the appointment.

The mulatto's heart beat a trifle faster as he began planning a suitable response to this ovation.

The Discovery of the Future (1902) and The Future in America (1906) present possibilities of scientifically planning man's further development.

Howland spread out the paper in the light of the lamp, and read: "MY DEAR HOWLAND: "I forgot to tell you that our mail sledge starts for Le Pas to-morrow at noon, and as I'm planning on going down with it I want you to get over as early as you can in the morning.

But although the wonderful artisan was thus held as a prisoner, he did not build any more buildings for King Minos; he spent his time in planning how he might regain his freedom.

" So, all through the day he pretended to be planning some great work for the king, but every night he locked himself up in his chamber and wrought secretly by candle light.

He first met McGillivray, then in his early manhood, at the town of Coweta, the great war-town on the Chattahoochee, where the half-breed chief, seated on a bear-skin in the council-house, surrounded by his wise men and warriors, was planning to give aid to the British.

As already mentioned, the speculative North Carolinian Henderson had for some time been planning the establishment of a proprietary colony beyond the mountains, as a bold stroke to reestablish his ruined fortunes; and early in 1775, as the time seemed favorable, he proceeded to put his venturous scheme into execution.