The plot of The Lucky Chance; or, An Alderman's Bargain is original save for the details of Lady Fulbank's design upon Gayman, when he is conveyed to her house by masqued devils and conducted to her chamber by Pert dressed as a withered beldame.

Nevertheless, the plot which they had laid was the most elaborate insurrectionary project ever formed by American slaves, and came the nearest to a terrible success.

3 Did I for this bring in the Scot? (For 'tis no secret now) the plot Was Saye's and mine together; Did I for this return again, And spend a winter there in vain, Once more t'invite them hither? 4 Though more our money than our cause Their brotherly assistance draws, My labour was not lost.

So the Plot's at last discover'd,he was a Cavalier of his Parole.

The plot is not strictly pastoral at all, the only characters that supply anything traditional in this line being the fairy hunters and huntresses.

The plot is a mixture of the pastoral and courtly, or at least aristocratic, types, not uninfluenced by the rustic or comic, which, like the chivalric, is no doubt of Sidneian origin.

Plot was not a matter about which Eliza Haywood greatly troubled herself.

They had, however, become more politic than to act thus openly, without being prepared to repel their enemies, or to support their friends; and there is every appearance that the Swiss plots, and the insurrections of the Palais Egalite, were the devices of the government, to give a pretext for shutting up the Club altogether, and to avert the real dangers with which it was menaced, by spreading an alarm of fictitious ones.

The popish plot and popish army were fictions of their own to madden the passions of their adherents.

The plot is simple, cause and effect flow on steadily to the end in the unfoldment of character and action, and the design of the author is easily grasped.

It was the captain who spoke, and, an instant later, the plot of ground, perhaps an acre and a half in area, was a scene of rollicking labor.

Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings.

Thus such a plot as that of the Menaechmi was by no means the sheer impossibility which Shakespeare made it by attaching indistinguishable Dromios to his indistinguishable Antipholuses.

All his plot had been but a dream; at the last he could not do anything which justified, in even the smallest degree, the alarm and curiosity he had excited.

The plot of creeping convolvulus-like plants, with purple flowers, is the Sweet, or true, Potato.

The Henry Plot is a farce intended for the same purpose, but it can never be got up.

But just the same the despicable plot of the Attorney General is an obvious effort to defeat the purpose of the courts and obtain unjust convictions by means of what is termed "jury fixing."

This plot is a mingling of comedy in the scenes of Laurinda's 'wavering' and the 'humours' of Amyntas' madness, and of tragi-comedy in the catastrophe.

Plots of thin clover, a perfect wonder in this grassless land; promenades, neatly fenced, and covered with broken shells instead of gravel; a handsome bronze lantern-stand, twenty-five feet high, meant for a beacon; a long and solid stone quay, the finest sea-walk in the United States; a background of the best houses in Charleston, three-storied and faced with verandas: such are the features of the Battery.

The simple plot of Tennyson's Princess is as follows: A prince of the North, after being affianced as a child to a princess of the South, has fallen in love with her portrait and a lock of her hair.

The creeper was crimsoning on the walls and the grass plots were like velvet carpeting, so soft and deeply green.