Literary notes about Plan (AI summary)
In literature the term “plan” serves as a versatile symbol for organizing actions, ideas, and structures. It can denote a meticulously devised strategy in military or political contexts, as seen when authors describe campaign schemes and statecraft [1, 2, 3, 4] or when manifesting collective societal ideals [5, 6, 7, 8]. At the same time, “plan” often embodies a more personal or intimate project, reflecting individual aspirations, secret schemes, or even whimsical notions [9, 10, 11, 12]. Moreover, the word stretches beyond abstract strategy to signify physical layouts and designs, capturing both architectural blueprints and the intended order of things—from churches and cities to the very structure of narratives [13, 14, 15, 16].
- I felt certain that it had been concocted between the two clans, and was simply in accordance with the general plan of campaign.
— from A Diplomat in Japan by Ernest Mason Satow - We went at once into our Plan of Campaign.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker - Their plan was first to make a treaty with the Lacedaemonians, to be followed by an alliance, and after this to fall upon the commons.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides - Sherman's plan was to start Schofield, who was farthest back, a few days in advance from Knoxville, having him move on the direct road to Dalton.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. Grant - Nor could I consider the magnitude and complexity of my plan as any argument of its impracticability.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - For how can people, when once they understand their system, fail to see in it the best possible plan of the best possible state of society?
— from The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx - Perhaps such a plan of constructing the several departments would be less difficult in practice than it may in contemplation appear.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and James Madison - Were the plan of the convention adverse to the public happiness, my voice would be, Reject the plan.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and James Madison - What’s the good of a plan that ain’t no more trouble than that?
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain - But suddenly one day such an amusing plan came into my head, that I could not resist the temptation of carrying it into effect.
— from The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore - My plan had been to lie hid in my bedroom, and see what happened.
— from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan - I suppose your husband knows nothing of our connection, and my best plan will be to be reserved, will it not?”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova - Here you have it—I drew the plan of this church and it’s perfectly constructed, so an English jeweler who stopped in the convento one day assured me.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal - [Pg 601] Plate , "each being circular in plan, tapering towards the top, and having its handle fixed at a right angle with the spout."
— from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers - And thou, O son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee: and draw upon it the plan of the city of Jerusalem.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - With what serenity the architect can watch his work gradually rising and growing into his plan.
— from On War by Carl von Clausewitz
