proposing

But I was proposing--I wanted to deed that piece of marsh to you boys!

It was a low-down trick and I'm ashamed of myself for proposing it.

Have you considered the question of carriage in proposing to put it on the English market?

Goujet was an odd fellow, proposing to elope, just the way it happens in novels.

And therefore you had better decide at once with which of the two you are proposing to argue.

Young Socrates, do you hear what the elder Socrates is proposing?

I understood that monsieur was proposing to state his business, not to question mine.

And won't it be fun to have his gray head at my feet, proposing marriage to me!

In vain her husband tried to divert her by proposing a trip through Italy.

Esther was not proposing to take part in their coming drama.