"The plot thickens," said Laura, as they started back to the house to eat the bacon and eggs and biscuits.

" Thus the plot thickened; the entanglement increased.

"See, my son, how the plot thickens," said my father, turning to me with a pleasant smile.

Skink, who fills the part assigned to the vice in the earlier comedies, is a well-sustained and entertaining character, and the series of transformations which he and the rest undergo, even while they occasionally perplex us a little, as the plot thickens, and the figures on the stage multiply, can hardly fail to amuse.

In vain did the plot thicken in the scenes that followed, in vain the dialogue wax more passionate and stirring, and the progress of the sentiment point more and more clearly to the arduous developement which impended.

Do you suppose he acquired a fortune honestly in this forsaken district, where everyone else is poor as a church mouse?" "Seems to me," said Patsy, discontentedly, "that the plot thickens, as they say in novels.

"The plot thickens!"

As the circle widenstownwards at any rateyou soon get into a region of murky houses, ragged children, running beer jugs, poverty; and as you move onwards, in certain directions, the plot thickens, until you get into the very lairs of ignorance, depravity, and misery.

But the "plot thickened," the place was soon moderately filled, and whilst in our seat, before the service commenced, we calmly pondered over many matters, including the difficulty we had in reaching the building.

"The plot thickened when from that day forth a complete change came over the worthy caretaker of the Rubens Studios.

the plot thickens; acervatim [Lat.]; tibi seris tibi metis [Lat.].

that's the way the ball bounces, that's the way the cookie crumbles; you never know what may turn up, you never know what the future will bring; the plot thickens; breasts the blows of circumstance [Tennyson]; so runs round of life from hour to hour

[Vergil]; the plot thickens; No sooner said than done &c (early) 132; veni vidi vici [Lat.]

THE BLACKBIRD The plot thickens!

Now the Plot thickened so well, as that Cynthio saw he had not much more to do to accomplish being irreconciliably banished, he writ, Madam, I have that Prejudice in Favour of all you do, that it is not possible for you to determine upon what will not be very pleasing to Your Obedient Servant, CYNTHIO.

" Referring to this in a letter to Mr. Lord of a later date, Morse answers: "The plot thickens all around me; I think a dénouement not far off.

"The plot thickens with a vengeance.

But the plot thickens.

As we neared the goal the plot thickened.

Now the Plot thickened so well, as that Cynthio saw he had not much more to do to accomplish being irreconciliably banished, he writ, Madam, I have that Prejudice in Favour of all you do, that it is not possible for you to determine upon what will not be very pleasing to Your Obedient Servant, CYNTHIO.

The plot thickens: Mr. Wilkes is sent to the Tower for the last North Briton; a paper whose fame must have reached you.

Decidedly the plot thickened and naturally we all jumped to the same conclusiona political crime.

The plot thickens. QUEEN.

Still the plot thickened, rather than grew clear; and he was afraid to speak, lest he might utter more than was prudent.