Then, having placed all the colonies on the mainland under tribute, he designed to conquer the islands as well, and proposed to build ships for that purpose.
On the evening of the next day Archias and Philippus designed to have a banquet.
The latter was designed to make them cunning and skilful, and if detected in the act they were severely punished.
He designed to take him now to the land he had bought on Christina Kill, and have it put in order.
Commandant Defforges, of France, also designed and used cylindrical reversible pendulums, but of different length so that the effect of flexure was eliminated in the reduction of observations.
The pendulum wasdesigned so that the period would be a minimum.
In an experiment designed to confirm his laws of falling bodies, Galileo lifted the ball to the level of a given altitude and released it.
He also used a pendulum to measure lapse of time, and he designed a pendulum clock.
It was designed to achieve an accuracy within one ten-millionth of the true value of gravity, and represents the extreme development of pendulum apparatus for relative gravity measurement.
Mendenhall, with the cooperation of members of his staff in Washington, designed a new pendulum apparatus of the Von Sterneck type, and in October 1890 he ordered construction of the first model.
Kater designed an invariable compound pendulum with a single knife edge but otherwise similar in external form to the convertible pendulum[27] (fig.
To the left is a "vertical comparator" designedby Repsold to measure the distance between the knife edges of the pendulum.
It was not designed to illustrate the evils or the blessings of slavery.
He evidently understood that it was done for his benefit; that his torturer was his friend; that this necessary cruelty was designed for his cure.
Is the system, which was evidently designed to foster justice and happiness, accomplishing this end for a reasonable majority?
A short experience with the factory system showed the need of regulations designed to protect the laborer.
The third and most permanent defense against heresy was the establishment, under the headship of the pope, of a system of tribunals designed to ferret out secret cases of unbelief and bring the offenders to punishment.
Thirdly, in order to carry on investigation and make careful measurements and the desired experiments, apparatus designed for the special purpose of discovering truth was necessary.
Giotto's dominating influence upon the art of his century is due partly to the fact that he was a builder as well as a painter, and alsodesigned reliefs for sculpture.
It is hard to believe that it could have been composed by the greatest man of the time and that it was designed for adults.
A German Bible for Catholic readers was soon issued, and a new religious literature grew up designed to prove the truth of the beliefs sanctioned by the Roman Catholic Church and to spiritualize its institutions and rites.
Whatever use he designed anything for, that use it should be always put to.
We will sum up the argument thus, When the Creator first designed the universe, either it was his will that all should exist and be in the manner they are at this time, or it was his will that they should be otherwise.
No generous and impartial person then can blame the present undertaking which is designed purely for the diversion and merriment of the reader.
His shoes were adorned with great rosettes; a ribbon was tied in the love-lock hanging by his ear; and a huge ruff compelled him to hold high a head naturally designed to sink low between his sharp shoulders.
Cutting Tom grumbled a little; but Ravenshaw, after applying to him a few terms designed to make him think no better of himself, threatened to employ another man, and so brought him to agreement.
This is a prescription for every thing, and is designed as a punishment rather than a remedy.
That place was designed or ignorantly constructed, as a fit house in which Revenge might feed in luxury on the tears of distress, and dance to the groans of despair.
The evils of solitary cells are far greater than the evils they were designed to remedy.
This gave offence, and he immediately corrected the expression, and gave, as what he designed to say, that he had wove more than he thought he had.
Of the volume which I am now bringing to a close, I can say in the presence of my Creator, that I designed it as a sacrifice to benevolence; and I have labored to render it an acceptable one.
Satan occupied the pulpit, and delivered 'a sermon of doubtful speeches,' designed for their encouragement.
The severe legislation against witchcraft had thus the effect--which invariably attends legislation when it becomes unduly repressive--of increasing the offence it had been designed to exterminate.
Hence our action is designed to produce an effect on the world around us.
Thus I said a number of things designed to be agreeable, but they met my small talk with the smallest talk you can have.
It was another evasive little business, and quite successful, ifdesigned to nag the owner of the rope.
Its effect was the usual effect of remarks designed to break a thing gently.
Let the meaning of your work be obvious unless it is designed purely for your own amusement.
If possible such an inscription should be written or engraved on the article itself, or be specially designed to accompany it.
These, it is obvious, should always be designed and engraved so as to harmonise with the printed page regarded as a whole.
Without doubt the artless, ordinarily printed title page is preferable to those speciallydesigned "title pages" that have little or no relation to the rest of the book.
These are frequently designed for stencilling or other mechanical reproduction).
Young at the Rolls Chapel, designed probably the most beautiful inscriptions of this kind to be found in England.
But neither were her thoughts for publication; and she bridged the brief gap in the conversation with a not particularly successful smile, designed to show that of course nobody was taking all this very seriously.
The eager confidence had, indeed, faded from his face, but not as she had designed that it should fade.
Sectional cases are very convenient, and are now being designed in artistic styles, but are not yet altogether approvable for the parlor or living room.
You designed a lighthouse some months ago for Mr. Garlicho, of San Juan," he blurted out with hardly an accent.
An instrument has since been designedby the late Dr.
He designed to fall with his whole force on their right wing and drive them upon the dangerous shoals of the ‘Owers’ which stretch eastward from the Isle of Wight.
We know it was a mere bait designed to allure and dazzle--the Boer spy had caught many women with it before.
They were taken into the East room, originally designed for a banquet hall, which is used now as a state reception room.
The allegorical group cut in sandstone was designed by the President, John Quincy Adams.
The Supreme Court of the United States now uses the chamber in the old Capitol which was originally designedfor the Senate.
It may be otherwise called "an institution designed to lengthen the lives of tired country mothers.
The building is designed for twenty-five pupils in the main room.
As such a state of things as the last never yet did exist, it was probably never designed by divine wisdom that it should exist.
She has attained efficiency by abandoning the fallacy of the Expert in favour of the maxim of Confucius--"the Higher type of man is not like a vessel which is designed for some special use.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "designed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
