The man looked curiously about him on all sides, as one who among familiar surroundings is unable to determine his exact place and part in
the scheme of things. It is so, perhaps, that we shall act when, risen from the dead, we await the call to judgment.
Can Such Things Be
They occupied an intermediate place in
the scheme of things, and they were to be watched in case they did not keep their place.
Jerry of the Islands
In addition, the persecution he had suffered from the pack had made the pack less to him in
the scheme of things, and man more.
White Fang
It was entirely owing to this deficiency in
the scheme of things that Arthur had ever brought any one into trouble besides himself.
Adam Bede
He was a recognised part of
the scheme of things on the "We're Here"; had his place at the table and among the bunks; and could hold his own in the long talks on stormy days, when the others were always ready to listen to what they called his "fairy-tales" of his life ashore.
Captains Courageous
From an acute consciousness of herself as an individual, Mary passed to a conception of
the scheme of things in which, as a human being, she must have her share.
Night and Day
That a creature made--in a genealogical sense--out of a man's rib, and in this particular case maintained in the highest respectability without any trouble of her own, should be normally in a state of contradiction to the blandest propositions and even to the most accommodating concessions, was a mystery in
the scheme of things to which he had often in vain sought a clew in the early chapters of Genesis.
The Mill on the Floss
He was charmed to see me, said he had been shedding delicious tears of joy and sympathy at intervals for six weeks on my account, had never been so happy as in hearing of my progress, began to understand the mixture of good and evil in the world now, felt that he appreciated health the more when somebody else was ill, didn't know but what it might be in
the scheme of things that A should squint to make B happier in looking straight or that C should carry a wooden leg to make D better satisfied with his flesh and blood in a silk stocking.
Bleak House
Like a simple American citizen beduking himself in his lodge, or affirming his consequence in
the Scheme of Things as an elemental unit of a parade.
The Devils Dictionary
Even the individuals became less watchful and alert, so that one might have thought Numa and Sabor and Sheeta entirely deleted from
the scheme of things. The shes and the balus roamed unguarded through the sullen jungle, while the greedy males foraged far afield, and thus it was that Teeka and Gazan, her balu, hunted upon the extreme southern edge of the tribe with no great male near them.
Jungle Tales of Tarzan
It was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly; while two or three fools more or less would not alter
the scheme of things.
The Call of the Wild
jobs report last Friday and expectations for a strong corporate earnings season have been buoying equities, and while the shift toward trade protectionism remains at the top of the worry list of investors, the level of implemented tariffs so far is small in
the scheme of things. BoJ Governor Kuroda yesterday repeated that the central bank will remain committed to ultra-accommodative monetary policy, including yield-curve control, until inflation hits the 2% target.
FX Action: USD-JPY has broken above recent range highs
" We don't matter in
the scheme of things but we can make things happier and better," he said.
' Artists should not be soft targets in India- Pak battle'
This is a small issue in
the scheme of things but an annoyance nonetheless.
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