"Counterplot" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... against my boy, I doubt not. Well, let us, then, counterplot. Who sleeps on either side of ...
— Bred in the Bone • James Payn
... I know who they are, but could not swear to 'em, and it would be worse than useless to denounce them till we have some evidence to go on. I therefore want you to help me with your advice and assistance, so that we may get up a counterplot to spoil their fun—for I'm quite certain that if ...
— Lost in the Forest - Wandering Will's Adventures in South America • R.M. Ballantyne
... middle of the street as their common hall. In a drama of low life, the unity of place might be arranged rigidly according to the classic rule, and the street be the one locality in which every scene and incident should occur. Courtship, quarrels, plot and counterplot, conspiracies for robbery and murder, family difficulties or agreements,—all such matters, I doubt not, are constantly discussed or transacted in this sky-roofed saloon, so regally hung with its sombre canopy of coal-smoke. ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XII. July, 1863, No. LXIX. - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various
... children," he said in excellent English, "have you had any luck? Cora, dear, tell me that you have succeeded in our little counterplot." ...
— The Slave of Silence • Fred M. White
... of the conspiracy to assassinate Elizabeth and set up the Queen of Scots in her place, to hand over Elizabeth's ships to Spain, confiscate property, and to kill a number of anti-Catholic people. The Hawkins counterplot of revenge on Philip and his guilty confederates was completely successful. The comic audacity of it is almost beyond belief. The Pope had bestowed his blessing on the conspiracy, and the Spanish Council of State was enthusiastically certain of its success. So credulous were they ...
— Drake, Nelson and Napoleon • Walter Runciman |
