And that you may not lack matter for your pen, I warmly urge you, when by shrewdest computation you have exhausted the plots of adventure and have worn your villains thin, that you proceed in quieter vein.

Or if Dolly lagged, did it not raise a thought that she, too, was in the plot against us?

Furthermore, plot in tragedy is more important than character; for in painting, a confused mass of colors gives less pleasure than a chalk drawing of a portrait.

D'you remember last term when Mason and Jack Vance and I made a plot for going down and throwing crackers into their yard?

And on you pelted with your plot to such conflicts and hair-breadth escapes as lay in your contrivance.

Miller, in his The Man of Taste; or, The Guardian (1735), blended the same plot with L'Ecole des Maris.

" He agreed to this, and as we jogged along I gradually drew the details of the plot from him.

They alleged that the conspiracy had been hatched in our house, color being lent to that theory by the fact that a year before a well-known Russian with whom my father had had many business dealings had been proved to be the author of the plot by which the Czar's train was blown up near Lividia.

I'll warrant you some Rogue that has some Plot on my Niece and Daughter.

The green plot at their top, where the Israelites' last struggle was probably made, can be seen to this day; and there most likely Jonathan fell, and over him David raised his famous lamentation: 'O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.

[pp. 535, 544]; or 'to reduce the Plot into a more reasonable compass of time,' or 'for defect of beauty in them,' are rather to be Related than presented to the eye.

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.

I am convinced now that he and Norbanus were hatching some kind of plot between thempossibly against the sacred person of our emperora frightful sacrilege!the suggestion of it makes me shudder!

It was a low house of two stories standing back a little from the street, with some wooden palings and a grass plot before it, and a stone-flagged path leading up to the door.

In the fall of 1917 there was uncovered a plot among the German residents of certain states in the southern part of Brazil to make this territory a part of the German Colonial Empire.

"And it was here that Ham first heard Bill and his crony plotting about the bogus circus tickets.

The dramatist takes the presence of the banjo as the central fact of his drama, and weaves his plot around it.

"That plot near the gate wants a trimming badly.

The Plots of Hook and Mathews.

Thus, when we think we are choosing a plot out of the void, we are very apt to be, in fact, ransacking the store-house of memory.

There was a talk at one time that our author was about to take Guy Faux for the subject of one of his novels, in order to put a more liberal and humane construction on the Gunpowder Plot than our "No Popery" prejudices have hitherto permitted.

There are flower beds, and plum and pear trees in the tiny grass plots alongside the more pretentious houses, and the farm lands extend to where the town begins.

"Yes; it opens on to the small grass plot opposite the side gate.

"And this leads me to wonder why LISIDEIUS [p. 533], and many others, should cry up the barrenness of the French Plots above the variety and copiousness of the English?

The Sháh of Hámáverán, however, was not satisfied, and he continually plotted within himself how he might contrive to regain possession of Súdáveh, as well as be revenged upon the king.