4112 examples of plots in sentences

Splendid are its walks and grass-plots Where the bootblacks base-ball play, And its seats resembling toad-stools, On which loafers lounge all day, Waiting for their luck, or gazing

Though this one Text were able to convert ye, Ye needy Tribe of Scriblers to the Party; Yet there are more advantages than these, For write, invent, and make what Plots you please, The wicked Party keep your Witnesses; Like frugal Cuckold-makers you beget Brats that secur'd by others fires shall sit.

The plots or stories of the Chinese plays are simple and effective, and Voltaire is known to have taken the plot of a Chinese drama, as Molière took a comedy of Plautus, and applied it in writing a drama for the modern French stage.

A CAMPAIGN OF PLOTS.

He learned all the plots of the prison, and became the confidant of Letitia Lanview, known to every exile in Richmond as the friend of the sufferingSt.

Ambassador Dumba was forced to leave this country because of the capture of secret letters revealing plots to organise strikes in our munitions factories, to buy up orators to incite workmen to discontent, and to pay newspapers for advancing the German propaganda.

German spies now in our prisons have admitted that they were sent here by high German officials and provided with ample supplies of money to engage in secret plots against our neutrality with the object of stopping munition shipments.

He placed his hand upon the back of a chair wherein was concealed an electric button, and next instant a little stout man in shabby black appeared as though by magic through a secret door hidden in the dark paneling of the audience chamberthe man who was his personal guard against the plots for his assassination.

So mischievously did this artful villain lay his plots to turn the gentle qualities of this innocent lady into her destruction, and make a net for her out of her own goodness to entrap her: first setting Cassio on to intreat her mediation, and then out of that very mediation contriving stratagems for her ruin.

Cesario Has tracked his footprint on her garden plots.

Euripides he accuses of softening the moral fibre of the Athenians by introducing on the stage immoral plots and love-sick women.

Most of the tragic poets of Greece derived their plots from a limited number of well known stories.

As it was, the Balkans teemed with plots and counterplots against the Austrians, culminating in the assassination of the Arch-Duke and heir-apparent to the Austrian throne, Francis Ferdinand, known for his anti-Slav principles, and therefore feared and hated as the king to be.

PLOTS AND COUNTERPLOTS The "balance of power" among European nations has hitherto been maintained because the formation of a single nation out of the Balkan States has not been possible.

The field is not greatly esteemed of the town, not being put to the plough nor affording firewood, but breeding all manner of wild seeds that go down in the irrigating ditches to come up as weeds in the gardens and grass plots.

Calmly, amid all the turbulence of international politics, he awaits the prize that is assuredly his; but while he waits he plots and mines and prepares for ultimate success.

he asked, with absolute indifference to the social plots and schemes which were being woven round him.

Thrive my blacke plots; the mischiefes I have set Must not so dye; Ills must new Ills beget.

My Crowne as soone: they feele their sinowy plots Belike to shrinke i'th joynts, and fearing Ruine Have found this Cement out to piece up all, Which more endangers all.

If he is too smart he will lay plots and plans for his own promotion, and thereby he is pretty sure to defeat himself.

Let the sergeant keep out of strikes, plots, feuds, hold his temper and show what's what, and he can name his own salary and keep his place for ninety-nine years without having a contract.

When Bret Harte was charged with confusing the boundary lines of vice and virtue he replied that his plots "conformed to the rules laid down by a Great Poet who created the parable of the Prodigal Son and the Good Samaritan.

Of this last error, the French are seldom guilty, because the thinness of their Plots prevents them from it: but few Englishmen, except BEN.

His wit so contrives the likely plots of his promotion, as if he would steal it away without God's knowledge, besides His will.

She studies no plots when her platform is set down, and defers no time when her hour is prefixed.

4112 examples of  plots  in sentences