What can ye fear," said a bold conspirator to his associates, "from your bigoted tyrant?
In the place of Liberius, the conspirator Artaban was raised from a prison to military honors; in the pious presumption, that gratitude would animate his valor and fortify his allegiance.
Then followed numerous arrests, confessions, and accusations, each conspirator endeavoring to lighten the burden of his own guilt by revealing how many there were who shared it.
A colonel and a battalion of bare-toed infantry turned out and went back to the scene of the musicale with us, but the conspirator gang was gone.
The second day out he was feelin' pretty braggy and uppish for a stowed-away conspirator that owed his existence to a mule and stolen bananas.
For, as Concepcion had said, this was a conspirator who preferred to lurk in friendly shelter while others played the bolder game at the front.
There is a time in the schemes of men, and it usually comes just before the crisis, when the stoutest heart hesitates and the most reckless conspirator thinks of his retreat.
I suspect that the man is not only younger than he seemed, but of higher rank--a conspirator against one throne, perhaps, in order to be minister under another.
He is too confirmed a conspirator to be long out of Paris; no place like Paris for seething brains.
By him every movement of the conspirator was anticipated, and met by some corresponding measure, which rendered it abortive.
Sobered at once, the conspirator leaped from his couch, and almost overthrew the attendant, in his eagerness to reach the window in time to observe the troopers.
In the meantime, quitting his own house in great trepidation, the conspirator walked very rapidly through the streets, until he reached the house of Lentulus, which was not far distant from the forum.
There are various traces of foul play in regard of this conspirator in particular, which serve to shake our confidence as to the treatment of all.
But if this first spoliation was to be effected, La Cibot must throw dust in Fraisier's eyes, and lull the suspicions of that terrible fellow-conspirator of her own seeking; and Elie Magus and Remonencq must be bound over to secrecy.
Stanton slinks mysteriously into the shadow of death, refusing to cut his co-conspirator down from the gibbet where the dreaded Johnson has swung him.
Rolla was the only prominent conspirator who was not an active church-member.
That is how he knew what signal-words she would use in her endeavour to find some fellow conspirator among us.
You are much too dangerous a conspirator for that.
He is not a swindler nor (though he sometimes comes near to this also) a conspirator like Count Fosco of The Woman in White.
The Marquis de Couaën is a fervent Royalist, and so willing to be a conspirator that he actually gets arrested.
Who wants a conspirator to look like the Queen of Sheba?
But she was far too practised a conspirator to let them monopolize her.
All the conspirator awoke in the Gadfly; he had guessed at once that there was something hidden in the bread.
What is called "going into society" was in her eyes one of the wearisome and rather unpleasant tasks which a conspirator who wishes not to attract the notice of spies must conscientiously fulfil.
A wretched old French conspirator was made the convenient pivot on which the intrigue turned.
The conspirator has taken to flight; having friends, as we suppose, who warned him in time.
He stayed near Newnham long enough to learn from the farmer at Arlingham the precise fate of Father Jerome, his co-conspirator John, and Andrew Windybank.
The chief conspirator watched them narrowly, and some dark thoughts concerning them ran through his mind.
In an instant every conspirator was alert and afoot.
Barto had been a soldier, a schoolmaster: twice an exile; a conspirator since the day when the Austrians had the two fine Apples of Pomona, Lombardy and Venice, given them as fruits of peace.
It is not always most comfortable for a conspirator to find himself unsuspected: he reads the blank significantly.
There should be extradition treaties all over the world to bring this arch-conspirator to justice.
The arch-conspirator had the audacity to be present, and Cicero addressed him personally in the eloquent invective which has come to us as his "First Oration against Catiline".
He was consequently the only conspirator who remained behind and at large after Fawkes was taken and the others had fled.
If to this quality of conscious failure be added a nature enthusiastic and dreamy, the very readiest material for the dangerous conspirator is presented.
As a conspirator a Man is not wholly a conspirator; he weighs the result to himself, to his family; he looks far ahead and around and behind; he reasons, so is more timid than the Woman.
The maiden departed, the old man closing the door with the utmost caution, while the conspirator pressed Ivan's hand, bidding him farewell, and stood ready to sally forth on her return.
Saying which, the conspirator disappeared through a door opposite to the one by which they had entered, and which closed with a loud noise behind him.
The conspirator turned pale with terror, and rushed towards the entrance of the concealed chamber.
That a condemned conspiratorshould be allowed to receive a visit from his leader’s daughter--from the daughter of that Lacheneur who had succeeded in making his escape--was indeed surprising.
Why you are theconspirator they are hunting for, and for whom they promise a reward of twenty thousand francs,” she said.
The ringleader in this was Major Panitza, an old friend and fellow-conspirator with Stambuloff in the days when Bulgaria was not yet a country with a separate existence.
Terituchmes was the son of Idernes, a Persian noble of high rank, probably a descendant of the conspirator Hydarnes.
Amestris was to be placed in a sack, and each conspirator in turn was to plunge his sword into her body.
A revolt in Susiana, suppressed by the conspirator Gobryas, and another among the Sacse of the Tigris, quelled by Darius in person, are recorded on the rock of Behistun, in a supplementary portion of the Inscription.
It was with a full knowledge of what was likely to come that Cicero had ironically declared that he only advised the conspirator to go.
It is not to be supposed that a conspirator against the Republic would be horrible to him, as would be to us a traitor against the Crown: there were too many of them for horror.
Autronius because he had known Autronius to be a conspirator against his country.
In the next, Velleius Paterculus speaks of him as the conspirator whom Cicero had banished.
