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Definition of Schemings
1. scheming [n] - See also: scheming
Lexicographical Neighbors of Schemings
Literary usage of Schemings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Southern and Western Literary Messenger and Review by Carnegie-Mellon University, School of Computer Science (1847)
"The rest of the book is devoted to the adventures of the wife and son, Lucretia
and Varney ; their villainies and their schemings to get back the lost ..."
2. St. Botolph's Town: An Account of Old Boston in Colonial Days by Mary Caroline Crawford (1908)
"... suffered most from want and privation — until the passions of ambitious men
and the schemings and counter- schemings of rival branches of the priesthood ..."
3. The Life and Writings of William Law Symonds by William Law Symonds (1908)
"Then again how much value would be retained in our systematic theologies, our
interminable exegetical books, our schemings and counter- schemings over ..."
4. The Life and Writings of William Law Symonds by William Law Symonds (1908)
"Then again how much value would be retained in our systematic theologies, our
interminable exegetical books, our schemings and counter- schemings over ..."
5. The preacher's commentary on the Book of Jeremiah by William Harvey- Jellie, Frederick William Brown (1882)
"Thoughts are "vain "which men indulge concerning notions and schemings of worldly
felicity. Need of a corrective discipline ; that we be earnest to have so ..."
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