complot
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My businesse craves the absence of the world: None but my selfe and Rodoricke shall behold The secret complot that I doe intend.
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
There is a rumour in letters of some disturbance or complot in the French Pyrenean army—generals suspected or dismissed, and ministers of war travelling to see what's the matter.
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore
He fancies, or asserts himself, the victim of a domestic complot against him;—accounts are accounts—prices are prices;—let him make out a fair detail.
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore
The Raad thereupon publicly gave thanks to the Almighty, Who had revealed and frustrated this 'hideous complot.'
From The Transvaal from Within A Private Record of Public Affairs by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick
And here they found John when they stole in one after the other, soft-footed, that the boy might suspect no complot.
From The Marriage of Elinor by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
"All these plots and complots are of your own invention," grumbled Desmarais, feeling very uneasy.
From The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution by Eug?ne Sue
Far from concealing, let us show the boy, And let the diadem surround his head: I even will urge on the expected hour, Before vile Mathan's complots can be formed.
From Athaliah A Tragedy, Intended For Reading Only, Translated Into English Blank Verse, From Racine (A. Gombert's Edition, 1825) by J. Donkersley
Come, let vs suppe betimes, that afterwards Wee may digest our complots in some forme.
From Richard III by William Shakespeare
While they of Carrión this shame complotted each with each, In the midst a Moor o'erheard them, that could of Latin speech.
From The Lay of the Cid by Leonard Bacon
It is the Countesse Iuliana the Marquesse of Mantuaes wife and no other, that hath complotted our confusion.
From The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse by Edmund Gosse
If she could only see him face to face, she would be spared all this odious complotting.
From The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Henry F. (Henry Francis) Keenan
