He enlisted the sympathy and interest of the wives of officials, and of Englishwomen in Egypt, and carried out a scheme which in itself was a wonderful example of what his interest and driving power could accomplish.
A large irrigation scheme was partly completed before the war, near the ancient town of Babylon, under the direction of a famous Anglo-Indian engineer, Sir William Willcocks.
One of my Commanders was therefore ordered to prepare a scheme for operations against Gaza on as large a scale as the force at his disposal would permit.
The scheme was a great success, and the benefit it has been to thousands of native women is indescribable, as regards both their general treatment and the care of themselves and their children at birth.
On the 23d a similar scheme was put into action, but a sudden rise of three feet in the Struma interfered with the bridging operations.
In this way thescheme so judiciously arranged would be accomplished in the appointed manner.
Yet he always threw away the advantages which he gained, in following some chimerical scheme of further conquest, being unable to take proper measures for the present because of his eagerness for the future.
Peter the Great is said to have projected a porcelain factory at the suggestion of his ally Augustus the Third of Saxony, but the scheme was not carried into execution until the days of the empress Elizabeth.
A new scheme of ornamentation was gradually evolved in the daintily-designed scalloped and radiating patterns adapted from oriental fabrics, lace and needlework, and from the ornamental devices of contemporary printers.
The scheme of enumeration is based on that of Great Britain, modified to suit the conditions of a thin and widely scattered population.
Lustre is frequently found applied to the rich cobalt-blue ground, and there are still existing a few magnificent vases which show the artistic possibilities of this scheme of decoration.
The Dorador had revealed the whole schemeto the Dey Hassan.
Already the poor man saw himself crowned by the might of his arm Emperor of Trebizond at least; and so, led away by the intense enjoyment he found in these pleasant fancies, he set himself forthwith to put his scheme into execution.
The color scheme today was gray: gray light streamed from the luminescent walls, gray carpets lay underfoot, gray tables with gray dishes were visible in the murky distance.
The Bronze Room had adopted cerise as its colorscheme for the day.
Thus ended the scheme to drive gold out of circulation and base the business of the world upon one metal, and that the dearer metal, silver.
Where was there ever a crazier scheme than the so-called "Baltimore Plan," exclusively the work of bankers?
But suppose the scheme had succeeded; suppose France had been less firm; what a wonderful flood of wisdom on the virtues of silver we should have had from the monometallists!
This ingenious scheme of the monk met with universal approbation, and it was determined that it should be instantly acted upon.
This," continued I, "is the best scheme I can devise.
I had but my arms, and scheme as I would, I could not make them stronger than they were.
But I was far too much alarmed to feel any of those transports in which I must have indulged had this issue to my scheme happened in daylight and in smooth water.
How much I relished this scheme you will imagine; but to reason with him would have been mere madness.
His sullen determination that we should stand or fall by my scheme was not very useful to me.
If the ice is so shaken as to enable the swell to detach it, my scheme will have accomplished all I proposed.
But it would be a good scheme for you to ride back to the ranch and tell Bud and the boys quietly what I am about, and have them come out in case I should need help.
It wouldn't be a bad scheme to find out something about him in view of the robbery last night.
I've got a scheme that I'm going to try," answered Ted.
The notion of concentration is at any rate secondary, while the subtle scheme for 'containing' as perfected in the memorandum is not yet developed.
He knew his opponent's lack of decision, he knew the individual shortcomings of the allied ships, and he knew he had only to throw dust, as he did, in their eyes for the wild scheme to succeed.
A scheme on the part of the Republicans for adopting the Constitution of the United States, but retaining Pedro as hereditary President, caused him to dismiss his Ministers, and surround himself with men of the Absolutist party.
This scheme was assisted by the organization of the galleon fleets, which, guarded by warships, united themselves into a single convoy once or twice a year.
But, on the whole, this colonizing scheme of the Welzers proved a dreary failure; they had little interest in the permanent occupation of the country, and sought merely for the gold and precious metals.
Nevertheless, when put into practice, thescheme failed utterly.
This scheme of bagging the enemy has governed all strategic moves of the campaign against Russia to this day.
On paper the German scheme is that these two fronts shall move to meet one another and everything between them must be ground to powder.
Oh no, I know it would not do with Samuel there; but should we be too young for your oldscheme of having a cottage together near?
All I wish is, that this scheme may die a natural death; but I should be miserable, and deserved to be so, if I raised a finger to hinder it.
Consciously or unconsciously he used Short Time (the scheme of A) for the first purpose, and Long Time (the scheme of B) for the second.
She bears down his faint resistance by presenting him with a prepared scheme which may remove from him the terror and danger of deliberation.
This does not look as if a single scheme had been so vaguely imagined that inconsistencies arose in working it out; it points to some other source of contradiction.
The scheme of his alternate monthly stay with Goneril and Regan is forced on him at the moment by what he thinks the undutifulness of his favourite child.
Anyway, it is by noscheme of mine that they are here together.
He was rapidly approaching the age of five years or one hundred and nine and a half, according from which Scheme you looked at him.
The matter was a logical one; the end of the New Scheme simply meant eternal annihilation for my unhappy old grandfather.
Hardly was the company of Mr. Phil Montague well floated when that gentleman called again, dined by invitation, and broached a new scheme to grandpapa.
In the morning he was looking ten years older, and for a short time I thought and hoped the New Scheme had broken down.
Indeed, taking one thing with another, that last summer in the West of England with my grandparent, proved the happiest time I spent from the beginning of the New Scheme to its close.
What’s the New Scheme got to do with the money-lenders?
He’s floating a fine scheme that’s got thousands in it," he explained.
The next two years won’t be much of a catch from my point of view; and if I’m executed, of course, the New Scheme must be upset.
Of course, it would not matter much to grandfather, but an event of that kind must leave me in a dilemma, beside which the New Scheme itself was a mere child’s problem.
Everybody thought he was younger than even the New Scheme made him appear.
I don’t want to drag in the New Scheme if I can possibly help it.
What if on the expiring of the New Scheme grandfather should revert to the old?
Anon we went to Kilburn, when grandfather had but one year left to live by the New Scheme and rather more than five weeks by the old.
I only remembered the date of his birthday, and realised that on the night before that anniversary the New Scheme would come to an end.
All who refused to accept his guidance were heretics, and his formal scheme of thought was supposed to justify the refined sophisms of mediaeval dialectic.
A scheme for ecclesiastical government, which had been drafted by Francis Lambert, formerly a Franciscan monk, was laid before the assembly and adopted.
The scheme of education sung in the Weisskunig, and illustrated by Hans Burgmaier, entitled him to the name "the Humanist Emperor.
His scheme of reform was to put in operation the existing regulations of Canon Law.
Carlstadt took advantage of the strong excitement in Wittenberg to press on the townspeople and on the magistrates his scheme of reformation; and on Jan.
The earliest practical attempts began with the union of German Churchmen at Constance and the scheme for a National Church of Germany; and the dream of ecclesiastical unity brought in its train the aspiration after political oneness.
As soon as the Reichsregiment had settled its scheme of taxation, the cities on which it was proposed to lay the whole burden of providing the funds required very naturally objected.
Hence, for the ordinary indifferent Christian, Attrition, Confession, and Indulgence became the three heads of the scheme of the Church for his salvation.
He noted the brigades, regiments, and batteries of artillery, which he saw in his walk; and arranged a little scheme in his mind, by which he could remember the number of each.
The bestscheme that suggested itself was to leap from the cars on the way to Richmond.
If they have, indeed, recognized me, it may be that some scheme is laid against my life.
Your men who pore over treaties and maps and protocols may plan and scheme to their hearts' content; but we can act.
Yes, madam, the mightiest financial scheme the world has ever witnessed, the grandest exemplification of the principle of credit that has ever been promulgated by man, was his invention.
When all these temptations were found to fail, I was left, as it were, to reflect on the matter, while in reality a still more ingenious and artful scheme was drawn around me; the Abbe being employed as its chief agent.
Why, bethink you, my worthy friend, that these are the very people we hope never to hear more of; that if by any mischance they could possibly be forthcoming, our whole scheme is blown up at once.
It is some infernal scheme concocted between Fagan and the lawyers.
I knew your scheme about the Papists, Tony; I guessed what you were at then.
Thad asked, quite interested, and ready to carry out the little schemewith all the speed possible.
He therefore recurred to the evidence of it given by the opposition in the States to the scheme of an Impost.
The second Branch or Senate may be on the present scheme of representing the States--the Representatives to be apportioned according to the Quotas of the States paid into the general Treasury.
It has been suggested that if we cannot come to any general agreement, the principal States may form & recommend a Scheme of Government.
These jealousies are inseparable from the scheme of leaving the States in existence.
I was willing to come in on any scheme to induce you to part with a bit, but I didn't fancy the medieval touch and the black gentleman.
The stage setting of his scheme was wonderful and the details perfect, but he lacked the insight of a great crook.
I cannot possibly countenance the scheme which he and his friend have on foot against you, so under the circumstances my only alternative is to beg you to leave by the first train to-morrow morning.
They knew perfectly well that you'd never be a party to such a low-down scheme as they had in view.
Hadn't you better explain the scheme to Mr. Pratt?
Mr. Littleham and I have a scheme which goes a little further," he went on.
Then our comrade, always a shrewd businessman, offered to take the whole cargo at thirty days, but that little financial scheme was a failure.
But when it came to be known that somehow or other the dogs never got to the island, but always fell overboard in the night and perished, another howl was raised and the transportation scheme was dropped.
The scheme works well here why should it not do so there--I mean with you, who have so many advantages over us?
The following scheme of redemption for the slaves in our colonies is akin to a practice that prevails in some of the Spanish settlements.
But the entire scheme is a pentad--God's hand in the world.
Pray Mr. Dechaine, are you able, upon the Deistical schemeto rid yourself of this difficulty?
Such seemeth to me to be thescheme of the Faith in Christ.
It is, I say, to prevent the necessity of the Cabalistic inferences that the full and distinct developement of the doctrine of the Trinity becomes necessary in every scheme of dogmatic theology.
Another scheme which attracted some attention about the same time was described as the "South Atlantic Telegraph.
Siemens Brothers, though the scheme had taken three years to reach contract point.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scheme" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
