1 But Jo frowned upon the whole project and would have nothing to do with it at first.
2 But Jo had made up her mind, and after pondering over a project for some days, she confided it to her mother.
3 There was no arguing upon such a project.
4 I suppose Catherine fulfilled her project, for the next sentence took up another subject: she waxed lachrymose.
5 His first act was to elevate his torch to a level with my face, squint malignantly, project his under-lip, and turn away.
6 But the queen had before contrived another project.
7 I had always a strong impulse that I should some time recover my liberty, though it was impossible to conjecture by what means, or to form any project with the least hope of succeeding.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan SwiftContext Highlight In PART 2: CHAPTER VIII. 8 He has been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.
9 The first project was, to shorten discourse, by cutting polysyllables into one, and leaving out verbs and participles, because, in reality, all things imaginable are but norms.
10 The other project was, a scheme for entirely abolishing all words whatsoever; and this was urged as a great advantage in point of health, as well as brevity.
11 But if they find their project has miscarried, they return home, and, for want of enemies, engage in what I call a civil war among themselves.
12 In you everything is flat and open; your towns project like points or signals from smooth levels of plain, and nothing whatsoever enchants or deludes the eye.
13 And another project which was occupying Chichikov's mind was the project of purchasing the estate of a certain landowner named Khlobuev.
14 In regard to this project of marriage for me, I will tell you, dear sweet friend, that I look on marriage as a divine institution to which we must conform.
15 His Majesty the Emperor has deigned to send your excellency a project submitted by me.