5619 examples of schemed in sentences

But for the place which I hold, brother mine, I've schemed with my wits, played fast and loose, and killed men.

Defeat cooled his ardor for a few days, but taught him the great lesson that there were other fanged and flesh-eating animals besides himself and that nature had so schemed things that fang must not prey upon fangfor food.

So they turned into the north, not knowing that nature had already schemed that they fourthe dog, wolf, otter and beavershould soon be engaged in one of those merciless struggles of the wild which keep animal life down to the survival of the fittest, and whose tragic histories are kept secret under the stars and the moon and the winds that tell no tales.

How this, in turn, destroyed the beavers will be seen in the feud in which nature had already schemed that he should play a part with Kazan and Gray Wolf.

It is true she schemed and intrigued to advance her personal welfare and position in life; but even her schemes were undertaken lightly and carelessly, and if they failed the girl would be the first to laugh at her disappointment and try to mend her fortunes.

And yet, he noticed also, that not one of them was more perfectly at his ease than Sir Stephen, who laughed and talked as if his only aim was that of enjoyment, and as if he had never "planned a plan or schemed a scheme."

Red Dog smoked long, and the lines upon his forehead grew deeper as he thought and schemed.

In talk he often fell silent and then asked some question, schemed to permit his vice to flourish.

And for means of bringing the offenders to justice they plotted and schemed as none but Venetians could do.

So did the old Hugh Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, who had already fought and schemed against Henry in vain twenty years before.

The dreadful denunciation of sin in high places was as offensive to the Pope as the exposure of a tyrannical usurpation was to the family of the old lords of Florence; and his enemies took counsel together, and schemed for his overthrow.

If he had not wanted her, he would not have schemed to have her with him at Rushing River Camp.

It is scarcely worth while to say, either, that he valued more highly than if he had inherited them the slaves he had toiled and schemed for.

The Colonel, he convinced himself, had disapproved of his prosperity, and had schemed to destroy it.

The Village had been schemed and composed in parts before Crabbe knew Burke.

I must say, however, I'd like to scheme out something I'd get some satisfaction in having schemed out.

The Raja fell in love with the Potter's wife and schemed to get rid of the husband.

His bent of mind was solely toward money and material things, and he at once conceived a bitter and unreasoning hatred for Martin, who, he believed, had 'schemed' to capture his daughter and an easy living.

I had reason enough to hate the girl, I had schemed with Lillian to save Dicky from her influence, but in that moment, as I gazed at her, I felt nothing but deep pity for her.

Many of the impecunious newcomers schemed against me because I could not furnish them all with light work and heavy pay.

Two years later, indeed, my sister schemed to marry me to our common governess.

In them lay every kind of precious stone for which, from remotest antiquity, men had cheated, schemed, lied, fought, murdered.

But in a general way it has been discovered that the New England delegates again sought the aid of the Lee faction in Virginia, and that this coalition, with the aid of such votes as they could obtain, schemed several methods which should lessen the influence of Washington, if they did not force him to resign.

For, in the hope that, by the time it did come, its way would have been prepared by a host of foregone thoughts, Dorothy had schemed to delay as much as she could the discovery which she trusted in her heart must come at last; and had therefore contrived, not by drawn curtains merely, but by closed Venetian shutters as well, to darken the room greatly.

But there is always the killingthe well-schemed smashing of a full trench, the rushing out and the mowing down of its occupants; the unsuspicious battalion far in the rear, located after two nights' extreme risk alone among rubbish of masonry, and wiped out as it eats or washes itself; and, more rarely, the body to body encounter with animals removed from the protection of their machinery, when the bayonets get their chance.

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