Arrange

əˈreɪndʒ

verb

to put in a particular order or sequence

The word 'arrange' comes from the Old French word 'arenger', meaning 'to set in a row'. It involves the act of organizing or setting something up in a specific way, often implying a deliberate or thoughtful placement.

Now she sat up and began to arrange the wood in the way Roland had shown her months ago.

Stephen King

The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, Book 3)

To do so, it was necessary to arrange to have a normal Foundation girl defeat the tremendous mutant powers of the Mule.

Asimov, Isaac

Foundation 3 - Second Foundation

But in general and ordinary cases between friend and friend, where one of them is desired by the other to change a resolution of no very great moment, should you think ill of that person for complying with the desire, without waiting to be argued into it?” “Will it not be advisable, before we proceed on this subject, to arrange with rather more precision the degree of importance which is to appertain to this request, as well as the degree of intimacy subsisting between the parties?” “By all means,” cried Bingley; “let us hear all the particulars, not forgetting their comparative height and size; for that will have more weight in the argument, Miss Bennet, than you may be aware of.

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

Or, if she was tired of earning her bread on her back, he might arrange a marriage for her.

George R. R. Martin

A Storm of Swords

And cost what it may, I will arrange poor Amélie’s happiness, she loves him so passionately, and so passionately repents.

Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace

In the morning, Oliver would be afoot by six o’clock, roaming the fields, and plundering the hedges, far and wide, for nosegays of wild flowers, with which he would return laden, home; and which it took great care and consideration to arrange, to the best advantage, for the embellishment of the breakfast-table.

Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist

I want to arrange a new planetary dispersal order with armored squads going out first.” Halleck stopped in the act of turning away, caught Leto’s eye.

Herbert, Frank

Dune

He was trying to arrange his face so that he did not look too pleased with himself.

J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“This world is not yours to arrange as you please!” “Is it not, is it not,” says Margarethe, turning around and around in the middle of the hall, as if in her rage she can no longer tell where Iris’s voice is coming from.

Gregory Maguire

Confessions of an Ugly Step Sister

The rest of us have already read everything; so when we meet in the study we shall all be informed as to facts, and can arrange our plan of battle with this terrible and mysterious enemy.

Bram Stoker

Dracula

So he wrote to Giovanni Fogliani that, having been away from home for many years, he wished to visit him and his city, and in some measure to look upon his patrimony; and although he had not laboured to acquire anything except honour, yet, in order that the citizens should see he had not spent his time in vain, he desired to come honourably, so would be accompanied by one hundred horsemen, his friends and retainers; and he entreated Giovanni to arrange that he should be received honourably by the Fermians, all of which would be not only to his honour, but also to that of Giovanni himself, who had brought him up.

Niccolò Machiavelli

The Prince

“I’ve been doing a fellow up,” said Jurgis, “and I’ve got to get five hundred dollars’ bail.” “I can arrange that all right,” said the other—“though it may cost you a few dollars, of course.

Upton Sinclair

The Jungle

“But naturally--” “We'll arrange for an officer out of uniform.” “I might--” Barris gestured.

Dick, Philip K.

A Scanner Darkly

56 Whoever, like myself, prompted by some enigmatical desire, has long endeavoured to go to the bottom of the question of pessimism and free it from the half-Christian, half-German narrowness and stupidity in which it has finally presented itself to this century, namely, in the form of Schopenhauer’s philosophy; whoever, with an Asiatic and super-Asiatic eye, has actually looked inside, and into the most world-renouncing of all possible modes of thought—beyond good and evil, and no longer like Buddha and Schopenhauer, under the dominion and delusion of morality—whoever has done this, has perhaps just thereby, without really desiring it, opened his eyes to behold the opposite ideal: the ideal of the most world-approving, exuberant, and vivacious man, who has not only learnt to compromise and arrange with that which was and is, but wishes to have it again as it was and is, for all eternity, insatiably calling out da capo, not only to himself, but to the whole piece and play; and not only the play, but actually to him who requires the play—and makes it necessary; because he always requires himself anew—and makes himself necessary.—What?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil

“It will make a good enough one,” said Flask, “the carpenter here can arrange it easily.” “Bring it up; there’s nothing else for it,” said Starbuck, after a melancholy pause.

Herman Melville

Moby Dick

I cannot bear duelling ever since two seconds, whom I had chosen to arrange an affair, forced me to break the arm of one of my best friends, one whom you all know—poor Franz d’Épinay.” “Ah, true,” said Debray, “you did fight some time ago; about what?” “The devil take me, if I remember,” returned Château-Renaud.

Alexandre Dumas

The Count of Monte Cristo

Nobody ever knew what went on in the parlor that afternoon; but a great deal of talking was done, and quiet Mr. Brooke astonished his friends by the eloquence and spirit with which he pleaded his suit, told his plans, and persuaded them to arrange everything just as he wanted it.

Louisa May Alcott

Little Women

For I can feel it all. … And the whole of that heavenly day of my life and the whole of that evening I passed in fleeting dreams of how I would arrange it all, and how I would dress all the children, and how I should give her rest, and how I should rescue my own daughter from dishonour and restore her to the bosom of her family. … And a great deal more. … Quite excusable, sir.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment

Exist boldly for each other, make us burst with rage that we cannot do the same, idealize each other, catch in your beaks all the tiny blades of felicity that exist on earth, and arrange yourselves a nest for life.

Victor Hugo

Les Misérables

Rapidly and silently Hook gave his orders: one man to each tree, and the others to arrange themselves in a line two yards apart.

J. M. Barrie

Peter and Wendy

Or even better, arrange their deaths before you arrive.

Rick Riordan

The Lost Hero

There was one older man, an excellent fisher and skilled in all kinds of woodcraft, who was pleased to look upon my house as a building erected for the convenience of fishermen; and I was equally pleased when he sat in my doorway to arrange his lines.

Henry David Thoreau

Walden

“That would only add fuel to the flames.” “Arrange an accident, then,” I say.

Suzanne Collins

Catching Fire

They had left to us, as an easier task, to give new names and arrange in connected classifications the facts which they in a great degree had been the instruments of bringing to light.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus

In order to transmit the same amount of information on paper, they would have to arrange for a 747 cargo freighter packed with telephone books and encyclopedias to power-dive into their unit every couple of minutes, forever.

Neal Stephenson

Snow Crash

We must also arrange the minds of the enemy, so far as we could reach them; then those other minds of the nation supporting us behind the firing line, since more than half the battle passed there in the back; then the minds of the enemy nation waiting the verdict; and of the neutrals looking on; circle beyond circle.

T. E. Lawrence

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

I want to go there and see as many of them as possible.” “Through the streets in full regalia the way you are now?” “In any way you can arrange it.” Delnay put a finger to his lower lip and leaned back to stare at Teg.

Frank Herbert

Heretics of Dune

You’ll be last either way, Master Peregrin.’ ‘Trust me to arrange things better than that!’ said Merry.

J. R. R. Tolkien

The Fellowship of the Ring

Matilda could perfectly well—” “—and I have to go out and buy the flowers, and fix them, and set the table, and order the salted almonds, and look at the chickens, and arrange for the children to have their supper upstairs and—And I simply must depend on you to go to Vecchia’s for the ice cream.” “All riiiiiight!

Sinclair Lewis

Babbitt

“But surely Dr. Sheppard can arrange—” “There are limits to my powers of arrangement,” I said drily.

Agatha Christie

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

A critic has lately insisted, with some parade of mathematical accuracy, that longevity is a great advantage to all species, so that he who believes in natural selection “must arrange his genealogical tree” in such a manner that all the descendants have longer lives than their progenitors!

Charles Darwin

The Origin of Species

we have inherited little more than the fame, and the faint echo; if Stesichorus, Anacreon, and Simonides were employed in the noble task of compiling the Iliad and Odyssey, so much must have been done to arrange, to connect, to harmonize, that it is almost incredible that stronger marks of Athenian manufacture should not remain.

Homer

The Odyssey

Serve me, and afterward I will arrange a ship to take you back to Dorne and give you Prince Quentyn’s bones to return to his lord father.” Ser Archibald grimaced.

Martin, George, R. R.

A Dance With Dragons

He then went to Scotland Yard to regularise his position and arrange for help in case of need; he then lit another cigarette and went for a long stroll in the streets of London.

G. K. Chesterton

The Innocence of Father Brown

“If you want to kiss me any time during the evening, Nick, just let me know and I’ll be glad to arrange it for you.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

She quoted technical terms casually, pronounced the grand words of order, the future, foresight, and constantly exaggerated the difficulties of settling his father’s affairs so much, that at last one day she showed him the rough draft of a power of attorney to manage and administer his business, arrange all loans, sign and endorse all bills, pay all sums, etc.

Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary

I cannot and must not draw sword, as I have many a time before told thee, against anyone who is not a dubbed knight; it is for thee, Sancho, if thou wilt, to take vengeance for the wrong done to thy Dapple; and I will help thee from here by shouts and salutary counsels.” “There is no occasion to take vengeance on anyone, señor,” replied Sancho; “for it is not the part of good Christians to revenge wrongs; and besides, I will arrange it with my ass to leave his grievance to my goodwill and pleasure, and that is to live in peace as long as heaven grants me life.” “Well,” said Don Quixote, “if that be thy determination, good Sancho, sensible Sancho, Christian Sancho, honest Sancho, let us leave these phantoms alone and turn to the pursuit of better and worthier adventures; for, from what I see of this country, we cannot fail to find plenty of marvellous ones in it.” He at once wheeled about, Sancho ran to take possession of his Dapple, Death and his flying squadron returned to their cart and pursued their journey, and thus the dread adventure of the cart of Death ended happily, thanks to the advice Sancho gave his master; who had, the following day, a fresh adventure, of no less thrilling interest than the last, with an enamoured knight-errant.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Don Quixote

‘Pretty good.’ ‘Are you going to fly more missions?’ ‘No.’ ‘Suppose they try to make you?’ ‘I won’t let them.’ ‘Are you yellow?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Will they court-martial you?’ ‘They’ll probably try.’ ‘What did Major Major say?’ ‘Major Major’s gone.’ ‘Did they disappear him?’ ‘I don’t know.’ ‘What will you do if they decide to disappear you?’ ‘I’ll try to stop them.’ ‘Didn’t they offer you any deals or anything if you did fly?’ ‘Piltchard and Wren said they’d arrange things so I’d only go on milk runs.’ Havermeyer perked up.

Heller, Joseph

Catch-22

The maxims of common life were arranged in some methodical order, and connected together by a few common principles, in the same manner as they had attempted to arrange and connect the phenomena of nature.

Adam Smith

The Wealth of Nations