complot

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Jack Reacher descubre un complot a nivel estatal para culpar a Susan Turner, la antigua jefa de su unidad, de traición al gobierno.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2019

To what fell complot was I then exposed!

From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Baudelaire, Charles

Madam, be it in secret spoken to your self, if you will but follow the complot I have invented, you will not think me so forward as your self shall prove fortunate.

From Fair Em by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)

That was the time in which my father, with indescribable goodness, and in complot with you all, sold the half of his library to furnish me with the means of foreign travel.

From The Home by Howitt, Mary (Mary Botham)

As for you, my daughter—as for you, my son-in-law—I shall denounce your execrable complot to my friends of the mad-men's party, to Hebert, to James Roux the disfrocked priest, to Varlet.

From The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution by Sue, Eug?ne