What scheme wouldn't he compass to mould that girl to his wishes.A semicircular tool for the measurement and construction of angles. The Bavarian felt a mad wave of desire for her sweep over him.
* 1600 ', ''The Arraignment and Judgement of Captain Thomas Lee'', published in '''1809, by R.(dated) To plot to scheme (against someone).
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The immediate problem is how to compass that end: by the seizure of territory or by the cultivation of the goodwill of the people whose business she seeks. * 1921 November 23, The New Republic, volume 28, number 364, page 2:.and was an artful flatterer, when that was necessary to compass his end, in which generally he was successful. * 1857, Gilbert Burnet, Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time: from the Restoration of King Charles the Second to the Treaty of Peace at Utrecht in the Reign of Queen Anne, page 657:.to settle the end of our action or disputation and then to take fit and effectual means to compass that end. * 1816, Catholicon: or, the Christian Philosopher, volume 3, from July to December 1816, page 56:.they never find ways sufficient to compass that end. * 1763, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emilius or, an essay on education, translated by M.(dated) To accomplish to reach to achieve to obtain.To go about or round entirely to traverse.Now all the blessings Of a glad father compass thee about! * 1610, , by ( William Shakespeare), act 5 scene 1.To surround to encircle to environ to stretch round.This day I breathed first time is come round, / And where I did begin, there shall I end / My life is run his compass. They fetched a compass of seven days' journey. (obsolete) A passing round circuit circuitous course.How very commonly we hear it remarked that such and such thoughts are beyond the compass of words! I do not believe that any thought, properly so called, is out of the reach of language.
There is a truth and falsehood in all propositions on this subject, and a truth and falsehood, which lie not beyond the compass of human understanding. * 1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral, Oxford University Press (1973), section 8:.In two hundred years before (I speak within compass ), no such commission had been executed. Moderate bounds, limits of truth moderation due limits used with within.Within the compass of an encircling wall (obsolete) An enclosing limit boundary circumference.He was as if trying to get himself into the smallest possible compass. Ĭlara thought she had never seen him look so small and mean. Their wisdom lies in a very narrow compass. In going up the Missisippi, we meet with nothing remarkable before we come to the Detour aux Anglois, the English Reach: in that part the river takes a large compass. Le Page Du Pratz, History of Louisiana (PG), page 47: (obsolete) A space within limits area.You would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass. (music) The range of notes of a musical instrument or voice.To fix one foot of their compass wherever they please A pair of compasses (a device used to draw an arc or circle).He that first discovered the use of the compass did more for the supplying and increase of useful commodities than those who built workhouses.
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