"Complot" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... against the fence in silent horror, his heart bumping heavily. His hands were clammy, his feet seemed to have grown larger and taken root. What damnable complot was this? A sultry wave of anger passed over him. This bland, slick, talkative bookseller, was he arranging some blackmailing scheme to kidnap the girl and wring blood-money out of her father? And in league with Germans, too, the scoundrel! What an asinine thing for old ...
— The Haunted Bookshop • Christopher Morley
... by advised purpose meet, To plot, contrive, or complot any ill, 'Gainst us, our state, our subjects, or ...
— Literary Remains, Vol. 2 • Coleridge |
