Plotting

Examples

• And then, although they may have no desire of change, the others charge them with plotting against the people and being friends of oligarchy? Plato. The Republic.
• Meanwhile the King was plotting and looking for help in strange quarters--from the Catholic Irish, from treasonable Scotchmen. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• What are you two plotting together, aunt Medora? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Having seen the evil results we have come to detest a conscious choice of issues, to feel that it smacks of sinister plotting. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Do you think it impossible,' she asked, in the same cold plotting way, 'that you might replace the Secretary? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• There shall be no more plotting and whispering between you. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Meanwhile the court plotted for reaction, and the people felt that the court was plotting. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• For long, Germany and Austria had been plotting an extension of German influence eastward through Asia Minor to the East. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But we are plotting nothing against him, Tony. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It's far from a pleasant thing to be plotting about a dead man in the room where he died, especially when you happen to live in it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Who would think of plotting with a poor little weak creature like me? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• But the craft, the secrecy, the dark deep underhanded plotting, written in Mrs Boffin's countenance, make me shudder. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• This is only half the love- making and plotting that have been going forward. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.

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