Then again, it might be, the plotters had been wise enough to place a barrier in the way of pursuit by turning the key, previously arranged on the outside of the lock.
Evidently the plotters were disputing as to their best course under the circumstances, some being for one thing, and the balance for another.
Perhaps those shrewd plotters meant that it should be so; and were laying all their plans to that effect.
They had run up against these energetic plotters so often in the past, that they were well acquainted with their ways; and nothing surprised them in connection with Ted Slavin's crowd.
Then the Flyer ascended on high, leaving the plotters and started back for the fire, of which Tom got a series of fine moving pictures.
Weir could ask nothing better; he had one of the plotters caught in the act.
Yes, he saw the man Dent killed and the plotters make your father, Mr. Weir, believe he had done the killing.
Death and defeat they considered were for him synonymous, all the plotters of every sort and condition forming plans to share in the contingent legacy of his overthrow.
From this circumstance Bonaparte reaped a rich harvest, his perfidy being comparable to that of the plotters themselves.
Perhaps this partial failure led the plotters to lend a more moderate colour to their policy.
He had, so to speak, a reaction of emotional realism, in which he saw, as suddenly as simple men can see simple truths, the potterers of Social Reform as the plotters of the Servile State.
Neither the secessionists nor their co-plotters in Europe required seducing or proselyting.
Another class were politically ambitious; had ventured upon the revilement of the Democratic principle; had become secessionists per se, and were the instruments and plotters of the treason.
This was the promise, the condition precedent, and this the basis of alliance between the plotters of treason in free America and their coädjutors abroad.
Governor Cumming's Stand This plan was presented to Governor Cumming, who listened to the plotters and examined their papers.
The plotters were greatly disappointed and returned to Camp Floyd threatening to act in opposition to the executive.
As soon as the primary assemblies had been set up, the plotters began to work, electors were nominated, and through the vicious system adopted in the sections, an uproar made it out for a majority of voices.
The plotters and ringleaders remain behind until all conscientious citizens have withdrawn; then, masters of the debate, they decide that the petition must be signed, and they accordingly affix their signatures.
We ferret out and track plotters and their machinations.
The plottersthen resolved to strike before he set out.
Happily such secrets are seldom kept; one of the plotters told the woman he was in love with, and she told one of the consuls, Marcus Tullius Cicero.
He was one of the most arch plotters of dark and tragic history.
This was but a part of the deliberate, cold-blooded plan mapped out in detail, early in the session succeeding the election of Mr. Lincoln, in a secret Caucus of the Chief Plotters of the Treason.
Against the protest of his friends, who by detective means had obtained from the plotters many of their secrets, Mr. Lincoln made the Soldiers' Home his summer residence.
The plotters took a house next to the House of Lords, and began to dig through the wall to enable them to carry the powder into the basement.
In the spring of =1605= James increased the exasperation of the plotters by re-imposing the recusancy fines on the Catholic laity.
But in addition, among the peers to be assassinated were included many Roman Catholics and some lords nearly connected in kinship or friendship with the plotters themselves.
The plotters were at this juncture reinforced by an ex-ranger from Scania (Skane), Johan Kristoffer Toll, also a victim of Cap oppression.
In this retreat he waited for a weary space, yet the plotters came at last, seating themselves a spear's length from the listener's open ears.
Yet ere a torch could be set against the walls, the plotters saw a woman leap upon the parapet above, to smile upon them and raise her hands in glad surprise, as though they bore her precious wedding gifts.
This, then, was why the plotters whispered secretly.
Yet when this vision stood upon the housetop, not as one who pleads for life, but as a master knowing them for the cattle which they were, then the plotters faltered in their course and paused.
There were ripples in the fish pond, but the plotters gave no heed.
Among these plottershe fell in with Cuthbert Langston, a Jesuit of the third order, though not a priest, and one of the most active agents in corresponding with Queen Mary.
While Mr. Halling was looking after Mr. Damon, reviving him, the young inventor and Ned quickly bound the hands and feet of the twoplotters with pieces of wire from the broken airship.
It was this that enabled the plotters to so easily keep him a prisoner.
The plotters are in prison for long terms, and Mr. Damon is found, together with his fortune.
He went out that night to meet Peters in the garden, but the plotters had changed their plans.
By this simple wig-wag signal device Dave Darrin sent to his chum the silent message: "Dalny is one of the plotters I overheard on the Casino veranda.
And, if the plotters are using and directing the movements of a yacht, I am unable to see how they could obtain clearance papers from any port.
He has told me that a yacht bearing the supervising plotters is now anchored in North Channel, and that the submarine is concealed somewhere under neighboring waters.
The two young men will go ashore together so that Mr. Darrin, if opportunity presents, may indicate the plottersto Mr. Dalzell.
But in that case there are others in the band of plotters whom we do not know and cannot locate.
But where and how can the plottershave obtained the submarine craft itself?
While ashore you will keep your eyes open for glimpses of the Gortchky-Dalny plotters and their subordinates, whom you may find there.
But where would the plotterssecure an American torpedo?
We shall see whether any band of plotters can put such a plot through while we are watching!
As for Ensign Dave Darrin, while he caught many interesting glimpses of the scenery, his mind was mainly on the question of how the international plotters were planning to break the friendship between the two strongest nations on earth.
Well, the only reasonable conclusion you can reach with the robbery and murder motives out of the way, is that the plotters wished to take your father prisoner and hold him some place until they got what they wanted.
Moreover, the plotters were well supplied with means and methods of guarding against escape or rescue.
The only difficulty I can see in your plan," said Lord Hastings finally, "is how we shall get word to Admiral Jellicoe without the plotters overhearing.
In fact, by a little judicious juggling of the wireless we might even be able to turn the presence of the plotters here to our advantage.
Nor was this all: for a time Richard professed the greatest affection for Nottingham and Bolingbroke, the two survivors of the plotters of 1388.
The head of the Jacobite plotters in the north was John Erskine, Earl of Mar, who had been Bolingbroke's Secretary of State for Scotland in the Cabinet of 1714.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plotters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
