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Example sentences for "schemes"

Lexicographically close words:
schematism; scheme; schemed; schemer; schemers; scheming; schen; schene; schepens; scher
  1. She was to join him a week later, after he had had time to spy out the land and make his nefarious schemes for a mock marriage.

  2. So we laid deep schemes to fill the house to overflowing and to have a roystering time.

  3. Something in his manner told George that the child was bursting with schemes for his benefit.

  4. Ever since, looking over her shoulder, she had perceived her brother Percy dodging about in the background, her active young mind had been busying itself with schemes for throwing him off the trail.

  5. If you had only realized the possibility of somebody some day busting you on the jaw when you tried to get into a cab, you might have thought out dozens of crafty schemes for dealing with the matter.

  6. In the future administration of our country," President Adams wrote to Jay, "the firmest security we can have against the effects of visionary schemes or fluctuating theories will be in a solid judiciary.

  7. Wilhelmina marked it well and then she turned back with crazy schemes still chasing through her brain.

  8. Fate had snatched him from behind the bar to carry out a part not unconnected with certain schemes of Judson Eells and any tendency to run out on his trusting backers would be visited with summary punishment.

  9. Calhoun laugh as he rode off through the night, for his schemes had gone awry again.

  10. For the coming colony they had no pity, and for the balked schemes of the Homeseekers' Syndicate no compunctions whatever.

  11. So Fate was kinder to the Little Doctor than were those who would wring anew the mother heart of her that their own petty schemes might succeed.

  12. Miss Nightingale's eye for detail did not prevent her from taking comprehensive views, and from time to time she sent to Mr. Herbert schemes of reorganization.

  13. Mr. Herbert could by no means always count upon the Treasury for consent in all his schemes for improving the sanitary and moral condition of the Army.

  14. For many years Colonel Lefroy was one of Miss Nightingale's most constant correspondents on subjects connected with military hospitals and nurses, and they often co-operated in schemes for the welfare of the soldiers.

  15. She took measures to let her schemes be made known in England, and the popularity of the heroine led to a speedy and generous response from all classes--from the Royal Family to the humblest printer's boy.

  16. She drafted instructions and schemes for each of the Sub-Commissions.

  17. Pastor Fliedner started his work not with grandiose schemes or full-fledged programmes, but with individual cases and personal devotion.

  18. Sidney Herbert, aided by the ready sympathy of his wife, was devoting much thought, now liberated from official duties, to schemes of benevolence among the poor on his estates.

  19. Large as were Miss Nightingale's schemes for army reorganization, she never dared to suggest the abolition of the Horse Guards and the retirement of its chief.

  20. If he would save, there are agents of unsound financial schemes ready to take advantage of his ignorance.

  21. No matter how carefully laid were the plans of the villains, whenever Old Neverfail appeared on the scene, the schemes and plots went to smash.

  22. This story shows how shrewd a detective must be to baffle the cunning schemes of the rogues of New York.

  23. The sight of Albert recalled the adventure of the loft, CĂ©lestin's insolence, and his schemes to seduce Elina.

  24. The sectional agitation which now stirred the country outstripped all precedent, and completely demonstrated the folly of all schemes of compromise.

  25. He had declared that "the schemes of the Abolitionists were fraught with horrors, upon which an incarnate devil only could look with approbation.

  26. Footnote 209: William was earnestly intreated by his friends, after the peace of Ryswick, to speak seriously to the French ambassador about the schemes of assassination which the Jacobites of St. Germains were constantly contriving.

  27. His judgment and his resentment alike induced him to relinquish the schemes of reconciliation on which he had hitherto been intent, and to place himself at the head of those who were bent on raising William to the throne.

  28. Even victory would have deranged all his deeply meditated schemes of policy.

  29. It had got abroad that some of the King's advisers, and even the King himself, had meditated schemes for defrauding the Lady Mary, either wholly or in part, of her rightful inheritance.

  30. One of Penn's schemes was that a law should be passed dividing the patronage of the crown into three equal parts; and that to one only of those parts members of the Church of Rome should be admitted.

  31. At first Fritz had indulged in ideal schemes of educating his wife, but they all came to grief.

  32. She went out every evening, leaving Fritz at home with the children, revolving all kinds of improbable possibilities which might suddenly improve his condition, and devising schemes dependant upon lucky accidents that never happened.

  33. As with several historic characters, the timidity of his temperament culminated in an aversion to women, which rendered futile all the bold schemes of ambitious mammas.

  34. The schemes are impracticable, but never mind!

  35. They acquired control of several tube railway schemes and obtained powers for new lines, so as to organise a comprehensive system of underground electric transport in London.

  36. During the course of this siege, Charles had taken St. Disier; and finding the season much advanced, he began to hearken to a treaty of peace with France, since all his schemes for subduing that kingdom were likely to prove abortive.

  37. But all these schemes for promoting industry were likely to prove abortive by the fear of domestic convulsions, arising from the ambition of Warwick.

  38. And he was wholly occupied in forming schemes how, from this great incident, he might draw the utmost advantage, and gratify that exorbitant ambition by which, in all his actions, he was ever governed.

  39. Sometimes there were schemes in which a leader of thieves, would take a profit in the stolen goods by posing as a good citizen who tracked down and returned them to the owners for a fee.

  40. He was also presented with the power to call and dismiss Parliament, but later, in 1694, a statute required that Parliament be held at least once every three years, to avoid royal schemes of non-parliamentary government.

  41. Benevolent schemes which are of the nature of mere charity he never concerns himself about.

  42. In helping Mr. Maurice to carry out these schemes Kingsley was brought into frequent intercourse with some of the London Chartists, and especially with the working tailors, who have nearly all a strong radical tendency.

  43. The humor of the present day is to devise means--schemes of federation or federative representation for example--whereby the colonies may still be kept in cohesion with England.

  44. His life was one of entire seclusion from political schemes or agitations.

  45. Now she, too, began to lay little schemes by which, without his being aware of it, she might influence his judgment, divert or modify his plans.

  46. And a little imploringly, and very apologetically, Polly unfolded her artless schemes for self-advertisement.

  47. It was like a form of revenge taken on them, for their loveless schemes of robbing and fleeing; a revenge contrived by the ancient, barbaric country they had so lightly invaded.

  48. No, he must leave the diggings--and Mahony rolled various schemes in his mind.

  49. There the more liberal theology rapidly made way among a people who judged it more by its fruits than its arguments, and Macleod won many adherents by his practical schemes for the social improvement of the people.

  50. When the ill-fated Ollivier cabinet was formed the emperor abandoned his Algerian schemes and MacMahon was recalled.

  51. Whatever schemes you have in the future you will have to work yourself, and whatever trouble comes of it you may also enjoy alone--because I'll throw you.

  52. You drag me into dark corners and talk over schemes to throw the hooks into Johnny Gamble--and I tell you I'm afraid of him!

  53. To talk of morality and virtue in conjunction with such schemes is an insult to common sense; dissoluteness of manners alone can bring men to think of it.

  54. In all the revolutions of other countries, the schemes and plots have extended no farther than the nation where they took their rise.

  55. If it be just, nothing but the absurdity of the ostensible motives of their occupations could have prevented this combination from carrying on schemes big with hazard to the peace of the world.

  56. To be discontented, and not to think of schemes of redress, is what we cannot think natural or manly--and where can such sentiments and schemes find such safe utterance and such probable support as in a secret society?

  57. Cambaceres, as the representative of a commission of the Convention, brought forward two successive schemes for the Code Civil.

  58. And other parts of Colbert's schemes deserve still less equivocal condemnation.

  59. As a part of the plans of the national government for reclamation of land in the arid states, imposing schemes have been formulated for such work in Colorado, including a great reservoir on the Gunnison.

  60. For various schemes of classification of the Coleoptera see E.

  61. In recent years classifications in part agreeing with the older schemes but largely original, in accord with researches on the comparative anatomy of the insects, have been put forward.

  62. The type forms in light and shade are less pronounced than those of linear construction, though through all compositions of effect, certain well defined schemes of chiaroscuro are traceable.

  63. Mr. King and the settlers on the west side of the river early devised schemes by which to get in touch with the east side and the county seat.

  64. These men saw into schemes which were frequently played upon men of the community and woe unto the man who got caught in such a game in the new community where all stood by the justice and the justice's rule was the supreme law in those days.

  65. Soon opposition schemes were started for east and west lines, and our project was ignominiously called the 'Ram's Horn.


  66. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "schemes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    connections; deal; game; intrigue; lobbying; ploy; scheme; strings