"Scheming" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of its destruction is too well known for repetition. This was England's proudest achievement. Philip accepted the terrific downfall of all his scheming and ambitions with a gallant calm. He had truly believed that Heaven wished him to reassert Catholicism. He accepted the storms which partly destroyed his fleet as the divine refusal of his aid. "You could not strive against the will of ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 1-20 • Various
... the long-dead wife of his youth, he could have survived the loss of her. The loss of power would inevitably have crushed and broken him, stunned him, killed him. Yet, so far as human affection could still blossom in that withered heart, shrunk by cold scheming and the cruel piracies of many decades, ...
— The Air Trust • George Allan England
... (Mr. W. Farren), who is doing the extreme possible to get into Parliament, and Captain Pacific, R.N., (Mr. Bartley,) who is crowding all sail to the port of matrimony. Well knowing how boarding-houses teem with such persons, two men who come under the "scheming" category are also inmates. One of these, Mr. Enfield Bam (Mr. Harley), is a sort of parliamentary agent, who goes about to dig up aspirants that are buried in obscurity, and to introduce them to boroughs, by which means he makes a very ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete • Various
... fowl provoking, still is croaking, still is croaking, On the pallid bust of GLADSTONE just above my study door, And his eyes have all the seeming of a small attorney scheming; And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor; And the shape cut by that shadow which lies floating on the floor, Looks ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., August 23, 1890. • Various
... Jaik, and with this act they thought they had clearly proved the Government had nothing to do pike! Pugasceff had just taken refuge amongst them at the time when they were dividing the arms of the Russian soldiers, and were scheming as to what they should further do. One lovely autumn night the escaped convict after a great deal of wandering in the miserable valley of Jeremina Kuriza, situated in the wildest part of the Ural Mountains, and in its yet more miserable town, Jaiczkoi, ...
— Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish • Various
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