The prominent conspirators were arrested and shot.
The conspirators were perfectly reckless of the lives of others, if they could only destroy the life of Napoleon.
But Colonel Cock had been won over by the conspirators by appeals to his vanity, and had allowed himself to be placed on the committee.
In his imagination, all who did not conform to his dominant will were conspirators against him.
Manila was simultaneously full of conspirators cogitating over murderous plots against the Americans, and a band of them was arrested in the month of May.
In ancient Mexico, traitors and conspirators were not only themselves killed, but their children and relatives {46} were made slaves to the fourth generation.
The Macedonian law involved in punishment the kindred of conspirators against the monarch.
On the Continent, the conspirators against the state would have been thrown into dungeon for life, or shot.
But the true object was, to expose the treason; to prove to the nation the actual hazards of revolutionary intrigue, and to extinguish conspiracy, however the conspirators might escape.
Right under the nose of the dignified assembly, if we may use so colloquial an expression for so wicked a fact, these conspirators were arranging the last details of their little coup d'etat.
The wider circle of conspirators consisted of ten or twelve men and women, who carried out the instructions of the Committee, but in no case attended their meetings or conferred with them in the presence of the spies from the field.
This information made the conspirators very anxious, for it being full moon, there was no prospect of spies coming into town, and in the meantime incalculable mischief could be done.
In time experience taught the conspirators at Harmony that the greatest care would be necessary in the use of the White Envelope, and to this they probably owe the fact that it was never found out by the enemy.
Wogan stepped into the company of the pretty arch conspirators who were then mismanaging the Chevalier's affairs.
But the Parson was much like the rest of the happy-go-lucky conspirators who were intriguing to dislodge the Elector from the English throne--cautious by fits and moods, and the more often when there was the less need.
The conspirators were seized in the very height of their anticipated success.
Neither had the desperate fortune of the conspiratorsurged them to this enterprise, nor had the former profligacy of their lives prepared them for so great a crime.
Polly, another of his spies, had found means to insinuate himself among the conspirators in England; and, though not entirely trusted, had obtained some insight into their dangerous secrets.
A warrant, meanwhile, was issued for seizing Ballard; and this incident, joined to the consciousness of guilt, begat in all the conspirators the utmost anxiety and concern.
All this passed in the spring and summer of the year 1604; when the conspirators also hired a house in Piercy's name, adjoining to that in which the parliament was to assemble.
The two conspirators sauntered towards the entrance to the yard, as the schoolmaster, an elderly, grave-faced man, drew near to the stable buildings.
The moment has now arrived when we can begin to set these conspirators by the ears.
I saw in a second that chance or Providence had delivered theconspirators into my hands that day.
The two ordinary motives of conspirators were wanting; but he loved France by force of sympathy and education, and he honestly believed that a restoration would be the best thing for his country.
If turbulent magnates or sullen conspirators manage to get rid of the person of the Czar, the principle still remains inviolate.
Herzen was born in Moscow in the year of the Fire, and his mind began to mature about the time the December conspirators forced Nicholas I.
The Russians were so unaccustomed to the sight of the scaffold, that when the first one for the conspirators was to be built, there were no workmen to be found who knew how to construct it.
In Russia men risked life and security as often by acts of charity toward conspirators as by conspiracy itself.
True, the plot I had discovered was being perfected beyond the frontier, yet the conspirators were no doubt members of a tribe under French rule, therefore amenable to the laws of their conquerors.
Suddenly, at a word from the man in the red robe, the conspirators gathered around, thumped their derboukas, and set up a plaintive howl, while the eleven kept perfect cadence with the right foot.
In a few moments the keen knives of the conspirators must reach my heart.
To strike me down the conspirators were straining every muscle, yet I managed to keep on, until, taking two sudden turns immediately after one another, I remembered that I was near the entrance to the secret chamber.
And thou hast attributed the misfortune of thy fellow-conspirators to me?
As I related how I had suddenly entered the hall where the conspirators of the Senousya had assembled to practise their mystic rites, she grew excited and alarmed, eagerly drinking in every word of my description.
As well might the brainless and heartless conspirators against human progress and human liberty endeavor to arrest the rotation of a planet by the stroke of a pickaxe.
The people are quiet; the true conspirators are thunderstruck.
At the same time, the English Government knew well that already previous to March 4, the rebel conspirators were fully decided on carrying out their treacherous aim across streams of blood.
Not one of the conspirators charged by Courtenay could be found, and it was evident they had received timely warning, though from what quarter the chancellor could not divine.
It was not deemed prudent by theconspirators to attempt any communication with Jane.
The conspirators had frequent secret meetings in the apartments of the French ambassador, where they conferred upon their plans.
It was occupied by Lord Ferrers during his confinement in the Tower, and more recently by the conspirators Watson and Thistlewood.
By listening intently, Ezra learned that the coup would be sprung sometime within the next few hours, the conspirators feeling that it would not be safe to delay, as the opium shipment was due before dawn.
The story of Guy Fawkes and the sentence passed upon the conspirators here in 1606 was one of the first bits of English history that a boy born but two years later would have heard.
Only two years before Milton's birth, the conspirators of the Gunpowder Plot were immured in these dungeons, and then hanged, cut down, and disembowelled while they were still living.
These were the unsuccessful conspirators against Khudayar Khan, who, after the death of Alim Kuli, had obtained his power once more; and these having been driven out of Khokand by his armies, were compelled to seek refuge in Kashgar.
The Pazzi in Florence were killed, Salviati was hanged from the Palace windows, and Lorenzo is all-powerful, while the bones of the conspirators rot in unconsecrated ground.
Do you remember in Tacitus,' he said, smiling pleasantly, 'how the plot against Nero was discovered by one of the conspirators giving his dagger to his freedman to sharpen?
In a little while I heard the bells which told the town that the conspirators had fled, and at last I fell into a restless sleep.
In half an hour the bells were ringing furiously; and it was announced from house to house that the conspirators had fled and the town was free.
At last they spoke of appeasing the Duke by handing over to him the seventeen conspirators who had planned the murder of Girolamo.
If the conspirators make any disturbance, they are to be outlawed and a price set upon their heads.
But I was not half so angry with these conspirators as with myself, for ever having entertained a single generous thought toward Bates.
It was a cheerful company of conspirators that now gathered around the big hearth.
It will be recollected that this was one of the cities in which Peisander and the Four Hundred conspirators (early in 411 B.
He came, with a detachment of six hundred Messenians, by the aid of whom they seized the oligarchical conspirators in the market-place, putting a few to death, and banishing more than a thousand.
So finished an organization, and such well-aimed blows, raised a general belief that the conspirators were much more numerous than they were in reality.
In such forlorn condition, many of them entered into a conspiracy to assail and plunder the town of Chios; a day was named for the enterprise, and it was agreed that the conspirators should know each other by wearing a straw, or reed.
After the breach with Alkibiadês, and still more after this manifest reconciliation of Tissaphernês with the Peloponnesians, Peisander and the oligarchical conspirators at Samos had to reconsider their plan of action.
The conspirators resolved to persevere, at all hazards, both in breaking down the constitution and in carrying on the foreign war.
Such was the condition to which things had been brought in Athens, by Antiphon and the oligarchical conspirators acting under his direction, at the time when Peisander and the five envoys arrived thither returning from Samos.
Reluctantly the people are brought, but they are brought, to entertain the proposition: and thus the conspirators gain their first capital point, of familiarizing the people with the idea of such a change of constitution.
But though these joint assassinations served as a pledge to each section of the conspirators for the fidelity of the other, in respect to farther operations, they at the same time gave warning to opponents.
Well, I at once informed the Queen, who had the conspirators seized and banished from the country for ever.
Evidently there had been a catastrophe, and the quaking conspirators hastened to the spot, half expecting to find the Queen and Court of Madagascar blown to atoms.
At this point Mark hastened to the south-east corner of the garden-house, where he found the other conspirators faithfully at their post.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "conspirators" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
