Indeed, he could descry no security from the pitfalls that were yawning for Polly, but in proposing to her, after dinner, to sit upon a low stool.
Meanwhile he gave the conversation another turn by proposing a fishing excursion on the lake, and immediately after breakfast we all sallied forth to the water.
In December of the same year, he surprised the inhabitants of Canterbury by proposing himself as a candidate for the representation of that city in Parliament, under the name of Sir W.
One day there was a very serious quarrel, Gerald having taken up the cause of an unfortunate frog, which Lionel and Johnny were proposing to hunt, by rolling their marbles at it.
A few days later, on the 9th October, his friend Mr. John Jacob Astor wrote him a long letter proposing that he should become a partner in Mr. Astor's commercial house.
He did not marry in order to make a pet of his wife--indeed, he might as well have tried stroking a statue of Minerva as petting Victoria Pengelley; and he made no secret of his motive in proposing for the young lady.
Caesar must actually have heard us proposing to go out.
They were running together, as usual, in double harness, and so far as might be gathered from their conversation they were proposing to themselves that both should marry Phillis.
The arrangement you speak of proposing in your letter for an interview has determined me.
The meeting did not take place so early, and the task of proposing a constitutional scheme for its consideration, proved far more difficult than the Emperor had contemplated.
They addressed a joint letter to the King of England, proposingonce more a general peace; but as they both refused to acknowledge any authority in Spain save that of King Joseph, the answer was of course in the negative.
Ho cannot well avoid a sense of guilt while proposing to remain in his sins, for he sees that he is a free moral agent, under all the responsibilities of such an agent to immediate duty.
Mr. Clarke accordingly wrote from prison, proposing a dispute upon the principles which he professed.
Here I met with another of the volunteers, who proposing a walk, we went out together, and proceeded to the Plaza.
In his report to Colonel Mason, after giving a general description of the coast and harbors, and proposing a system of military defence, he submits some remarks upon the commercial and military importance of the peninsula.
The Vice-President, inproposing this course, obviously forgets his own principles.
In proposing so liberal a franchise, however, Mason stood alone in Virginia in his day.
By proposing a new organization of the federal government all minds would have been revolted; circumstances ruinous to the commerce of America have happily arisen to furnish the reformers with a pretext for introducing innovations.
I thank you, Mr. President, for your kind reception, and I beg you to permit me to ask the gentlemen here to join me in proposing in behalf of President Roosevelt the health and long life and prosperity of the President of Peru.
Indeed, Lord Liverpool seemed resolved to push the country to its utmost verge, byproposing and sanctioning every expensive outlay.
But where's the harm, Monsieur Bongrand, inproposing to a young relative to help on a marriage which seems to be for her happiness, and to invent pretexts to conquer her reluctance to accept the money.
So I've plenty of heirs," said the doctor gayly, immediately proposing to take a walk through Nemours accompanied by his nephew.
Perhaps they could get him elected deputy from Fontainebleau, where Zelie was proposing to pass the winter after living at Rouvre for the summer season.
I took one of the brass lamps, proposing to go to bed.
He had furnished me a proper occasion for proposing their reformation, and, my opinion not prevailing, he knew I could not have meant any part of the censure for him.
That circumstance, surely, was of far less merit than the, proposing and carrying them through the legislature of his State.
My own State has gone on so far with its première ébauch; but it is now proposing to call a convention for amendment.
After dinner, I produced the draught of messages on the subject of France and England, proposing that that relative to Spain should be subsequent and secret.
I opposed the expediency of the General Government's undertaking it, and the expediency of the President's proposing it.
Would it not have a good effect for the friends of the University to take the lead in proposing and effecting a practical scheme of elementary schools?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "proposing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
