These parties were to search all the attics for discarded civilian clothes, and anything that we could use in the props of our proposed Company.
He must satisfy the committee of the association, who know the man and his business, that the proposed investment is one which will enable him to repay both principal and interest.
If the word in connection with agriculture could be retained for its technical sense, so long established and well understood in Europe, the proposed movement might be saved a good deal of confused thinking.
It is long since you built a great cathedral; and how you would laugh at me if I proposed building a cathedral on the top of one of these hills of yours, taking it for an Acropolis!
Pharaoh added that he proposed to make his last stand at the strong city of Amada, since he doubted whether the troops from Lower Egypt would not rather surrender to the Easterns than retreat further up the Nile.
Second and third new routes will be proposed for the consideration of Congress, namely, by an extension of the Kanawha and James River Canal to the Ohio, and by extension of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.
That Government has proposed to change the system which it has hitherto pursued in this respect by issuing bonds for part of the amount of the several claims.
I therefore commend to your favorable consideration the two bills proposed by the committee and referred to in this message.
Every thing is farmed out, until at last, two years ago, Escandon proposed to farm the whole foreign duties.
The evidence that I have presented of the inexhaustible supplies of silver in Northern Mexico, near the route of our proposed Pacific Railroad, may be interesting to legislators.
Yet Tlascala was undismayed by the new combination brought to bear against her, and did not readily listen to the proposed alliance of Cortéz.
But he also recalls how he sometimes flared up and stormed out of the committee room in anger over some proposed change or correction of his work.
The opposition grew so strong that the king, though he had already approved the proposed hymnal, a few weeks later revoked not only his approval but Kingo's commission.
Aside from this deplorable loss, it must be conceded that the committee had done an excellent work and that its hymnal was much better suited for general use than Kingo's proposed hymnal would have been.
He who proposed the game, having accepted the offer, produced breeches and drew them across the face of him who bet the pair of hose and won the bet [4].
At the same time, I cannot but admit that the solution of the difficulties proposedby Prof.
I proposed to take a lodging for myself, all by myself; go there in the morning and return at night, and give lessons, and get money for them.
They never had one, and never proposed to; other people's houses might get on fire; theirs never did.
The chief officials of the Lake Shore road proposed to ride this race in person, and, if possible, smash the New York Central's then recent world's record of 63.
He proposed to hitch a rope to it, drop this rope to a donkey-engine in the yard, and set the engine winding up the rope.
Most aeronauts would have been thankful enough to get down alive anywhere; she proposed to do a feat of steering as well.
By their success or failure in taking heavy-laden boats up the cataracts Lord Wolseley proposed to decide whether the troops for Gordon's relief should go straight up the Nile or around by the Red Sea and the desert.
Other favorable factors are that roads are not yet good in the areas proposed for refuges, the human population is low, and agriculture consequently is not practiced.
One of these traitors once accosted him and proposedthe matter to him, offering handfuls of gold if he could induce any of his comrades to go over.
The proposed bank will commence and conduct its operations under an obligation to pay its notes in specie, or be subject to the loss of its charter.
The bank as proposed to be constituted can not be relied on during the war to provide a circulating medium nor to furnish loans or anticipations of the public revenue.
The minister plenipotentiary of His Britannic Majesty here proposed an adjustment of the differences more immediately endangering the harmony of the two countries.
At the same time, to prove to his friends how sincerely he desired to please them, he proposed that he and Justinus should immediately cross the Nile to lay his application before the Khaliff's vicar.
He sought to soothe her with loving words and, when she recovered herself, he told her that he proposed to leave her for a short time to look after his estates, as the law required, and this information gladdened her greatly.
But it is proposed now in certain quarters to examine men as well as women.
It is not however, proposed to carry out this principle to its full logical result; and herein lies the point on which she finds herself at issue with Lord George Hamilton.
The scheme proposed by Lady Henry Somerset is here given in her own words: "1.
It is proposedto you that you mount a horse, you must absolutely make a choice, for it is quite clear that you either will go or that you will not go.
If he had proposed his laws to the assembled tribes, the assassins of his predecessor would have made a thousand difficulties.
He would have been stoned if he had proposed the same bath to the peoples who dwell on the banks of the Dwina near Archangel.
Ask the rats who proposed to hang a bell round the cat's neck.
He had been telling Porter, all the way, about the fun there was in felling big trees, and that young gentleman had frankly proposed to cut down a few before they set out after any rabbits or bears.
He was now thinking with increasing interest about snowballs and their uses, for Vosh explained to him the proposed game of "draw" as they went down the hill.
There was a way out of theproposed defeat which had not been seen by the newspaper problem-maker, and Vosh found it.
The banker proposed that they should send home the carriages, and walk down the hill to Felden; so Talbot Bulstrode offered Aurora his arm, only too glad of the chance of a tete-a-tete with his betrothed.
In any case, it was wise to keep her away from Felden Woods; so Mr. Floyd proposed a tour through Normandy to his daughter and Mrs. Powell.
In this place it was proposed to collect merely a few notices respecting her death and funerals.
The Cardinal de Lorraine, in August 1563, had actually proposed the Archduke Charles of Austria to Queen Mary for a husband; but she declined such an overture.
In reckoning the number of Bursaries, it was proposed that the University of St. Andrews should consist of three Colleges; and Glasgow and Aberdeen of two each; thus making 72 for the former, and 48 for each of the latter.
In 1544, heproposed to resign Paisley to his brother James, reserving to himself the whole fruits of the benefice, with a right to re-enter to it, should his brother predecease him.
Illustration: Facsimile reprint of the famous time scaleproposed by Arthur Holmes in 1959.
Requests should be made on school or library letterheads and indicate the proposed use.
Edestone proposed to run no chances of a bungling or incomplete presentation of his pictures.
When the count de Cabra had heard this account of the situation of affairs, he turned to his nephew with his usual alacrity of manner, and proposed that they should immediately sally forth in quest of the enemy.
Several of the horsemen therefore gathered round the commanders and proposed that they should relinquish their spoil and save themselves by flight.
A number of Moorish cavaliers, some of the bravest youth of Granada, knowing the wishes of the king, proposed to undertake a desperate enterprise which, if successful, must put Alhama in his power.
It was late in the month of May before they assembled in sufficient force to attempt the proposed invasion, when at length a valiant army of thirteen thousand horse and forty thousand foot marched merrily over the border.
Various plans were proposed by the different cavaliers.
The count hastened back to Spain and made known the proposed treachery to the Cardinal Ximenes, then prime minister of Spain.
Some of the cavaliers, seeing the hopeless nature of the conflict, proposedto abandon the height and retreat down the mountain.
The systemproposed is capable of supplying five hundred dollars ($500) of loanable capital to each individual of the whole population.
The system proposed is capable of furnishing twelve hundred and fifty dollars ($1,250) to each one, on an average.
It is of no use to say that we do not need so much currency as theproposed system would supply; because, first, if we should not need it, we shall not use it.
But the amount of loanable capital which the proposed system can supply, hardly depends at all upon the amount of its currency that can be kept in circulation.
I proposedto put before her the fact of my own weakness, of my own self-deception, which also was deception of her.
You proposed to--to live with her here, but not be bound to her elsewhere!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "proposed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
