Hence: A plotter against an existing government; a turbulent demagogue.
Defn: One who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer.
Hugh immediately started to relieve him of the light, for he was afraid that a sudden desperate move toward escape might be inaugurated by the plotter dropping the lamp, and causing either an explosion, or darkness to cover the scene.
A plot thou hast heard--a plot that hath made thine ears itch, yet neither dost thou know the plotter nor the plot.
At the same time the astute plotter found other means to extend his authority and that of the conspiracy he ruled.
The revealing plotter cannot have been Tresham or any one of the other eight who were condemned to death in Westminster Hall; otherwise he would have pleaded such fact.
Now, who can that aforesaid living, intelligent being, which reason demands, have been, if not a repentant plotter himself?
Now, the Evidence that tends to show that Christopher Wright was conscious of having been the revealing plotter and dictating conspirator[121] has been already mainly set forth, but let me recapitulate the same.
The revealing plotter must have been amongst those who survived not to tell the tale: that is, either Catesby, Percy, John Wright, or Christopher Wright.
The small plotter became silent again, and when she spoke she was smiling brightly.
If Blount was a little surprised when the small plotter came back to take the chair recently vacated by his father, he was generous enough not to show it.
Perhaps they had captured the plotter and had dispatched Karl for rope or handcuffs to secure him.
Our Secret Service has been wonderfully efficient, but it has not been humanly possible to apprehend every spy and plotter at once.
And a few pages later we are told that “his ambition tainted all his acts,” and again, that “a conqueror is a perpetual plotter against the safety of all nations.
It is not fitting that this plottershould practise devilish devices upon our assembly.
His knowledge of the presence in the country of the arch-plotter of the powerful and warlike Sioux from across the line entailed a new burden.
Lastly, he was determined that this arch-plotter should not escape him again.
Already her mind had leaped forward to the moment when this cunning, powerful plotter would be at death-grips with her husband and she not there to help.
That Maggard would ever leave that bed save to be borne to his grave seemed violently improbable, and if his silence could be assured while he lay there, success for the plotter would after all be complete.
With torrential and cascading onrush came the capitulation of the long and black record against the master plotter from its beginning in jealousy to its end in betrayal of the Ku Klux.
The other had totally deluded him until the climax brought its accusation, and now the unmasked plotter took refuge in bluster, fencing for time to think.
My last batch," retorted the plotter wearily, "like all the others, is a hollow mockery and a fraud.
So saying the plotter once more shook hands; and with the politest ceremonies, and some necessary guidance, conducted the bewildered young gentleman to the top of the stair.
The plotter had resumed his seat and now replenished the glasses.
It is assassination," said the plotter calmly; but with eyebrows a little lifted, as in wonder at the question.
A dram of spirits restored the plotter to something of his customary self-possession; and he was standing, glass in hand and genially convalescent, when his eye was attracted by the dejection of the unfortunate young man.
The register units are used to interface external devices to the computer quite cheaply; a typical register used here to interface an existing Calcomp plotter to the new computers costs about $300 in parts and labor.
Interfacing a $5000 Calcomp plotter to the automatic channel of an IBM or Sigma series machine may cost much more than the cost of the plotter.
Thus, new data may be stored on, or old data retrieved from, the disk or magnetic tape; either new or old data may be displayed on the CRT; and the same or other data may be output with the plotter or line printer.
The solution adopted was to acquire another computer with the same instruction set (an SDS 925) and to provide switches such that the line printer, card reader, and plotter could be run from either computer.
If you step up another pair of stairs, you will be convinced, that, however detestable I may be to you, I am no plotter in this affair.
This plaguy sex is art itself: every individual of it is a plotter by nature.
Plotter succeeds plotter, and the rough lesson of the headsman seldom teaches the conspirator's successor to cease from conspiring.
In the Tower the unhappy plotter had written affecting letters to his son Philip, bidding him worship God, avoid courts, and beware of ambition.
Rochester, the plotter with Shaftesbury, the selfish profligate who drove Lee into Bedlam and starved Samuel Butler.
For never can thy days be long, Base plotter of this shame and wrong To Ráma of the lofty soul: He dies who drinks the poisoned bowl.
It would have been plain to a far duller plotter that they should be fully clear of Hunston before he explained the situation to her more definitely.
You're the noblest plotter of them all, Mr. Higginson.
Quite forgetting this trifle of treachery, the too-hasty plotter had sought the duke's stronghold with the hope of placating him with well-concocted lies and a smooth tongue.
Before this tidings could be well digested, the frightened plotter learned that his own arrest had been ordered, and that the exons were already at his door to secure his person.
The plotter leant his hands on the back of the chair and paused an instant before he answered.
The plotter drew back as he had drawn back before.
I cannot say what he will not know, Mr. Charnock," the plotter answered, with a cunning smile that brought his wig to his eyebrows.
He was arrested as a co-plotter with Russell on Howard's information, and committed suicide in the Tower on the day of his trial (see p.
Aaron Smith is first heard of as an obscure plotter in association with Oates and Speke.
In these cases the Contessa would sometimes take fright, but never, so light was the temper of this scheming woman, this deep plotter and conspirator, refused to join in the laughter when the flight was made and safety secured.
Thus tragical surmises floated in the air about Madame di Forno-Populo, that archplotter whose heart was throbbing indeed with her success, and the hope of successes to come, but who had no tragical alarms in her breast.
Yet he was equally convinced that he was not likely to catch the plotter against his happiness.
There never was a plotterless scrupulous than this man, whose smooth tongue and jaunty exterior had stood him so well during almost a lifetime of villainy.
This was after the infamous plotter had consigned Detective Keene to a horrible doom at the bottom of the old well under Billy Bowlegs' saloon.
Some effort of the imagination was needed to figure the Silenus of the literary world as a plotter against the lives of Ministers.
It is not often that a plotter shows his hand so clearly; and we must admire Pitt's discernment no less than his firmness at this crisis.
For Despard, the plotterof 1802, see "Castlereagh Corresp.
