Well, my plottings are like to end full soon,' Katharine said.
Or, if by these plottings my father could be got to send me his men upon their knees and bearing crowns, I would turn my back upon them and say no word.
The squeaky voice and the feigned limp seemed to her stratagems ignoble and futile on the part of a great Churchman, and his mania of plots and counter-plottings had depressed and wearied her, for she expected the great to be wise.
He was in a state of fury, full of plottings of desperation, swearing to himself that he would show no mercy.
How were Royalist and Anabaptist plottings to be suppressed?
Magnus, who was eager to punish the race of Knut for their insidious plottings against his father, also made warlike preparations, apparently with the intention of invading Denmark.
He knew how the justice of Castile was kept on the alert by the persistent plottings of the Portuguese Pretender, Don Antonio, sometime Prior of Crato.
But Providence--through theplottings of individuals within our own lines--wills it otherwise.
I doubt it not," Leslie said, "but it is with daggers rather than swords that Argyll fights, and with secret plottings more than either.
These feelings and these fears would scarcely have arisen in the old woman's breast, had she alone been subject to the possible plottings of that evil nature.
Afar off glittered the splendid goal--the undisputed possession of the late John Haygarth's hundred thousand pounds; but between the schemer and that chief end and aim of all his plottings what a sea of troubles!
The terrorism and seditious plottings of the extremists, while not stamped out, were held in check and driven underground.
No part of the world was free from the plottings of its agents; no possible source of discontent was overlooked.
Political intrigues, plottings and crimes were in the very air she breathed from infancy.
That she was jealous of her fascinating rival there is little doubt, but that she was exasperated at her pretensions and at the audacious plottings against her life and throne is not strange.
We would wish to prove to your Magnificence that the city itself takes no part in the vagaries and plottings of a few hot-headed malcontents.
What other purpose save that of murder and bloodshed could be served by such secret plottings and the levying of troops in this illegal manner?
So the little lady told herself, surveying the situation in her quick brain, and deceiving herself completely, as many a shrewder schemer than she, when self-entangled in the devious plottings of this life.
Father has relented, as I knew he would, out of regard for their friendship of the past, and will not bring charges based on Major King's plottings with Chadron.
The innocent building-ground and nefarious plottings against unpopular authority had given place to restaurants and more subtle wickednesses.
For days before his last birthday he had suspected everyone of secret delicious plottings on his behalf.
He led them in dark plottings against their governesses and nursemaids, and even against the Law itself as personified by an elderly, somewhat pompous policeman whose beat included their territory.
What with his plottings here and his plottings there, it will be a fortunate thing if he doesn't plot us all into our graves.
Xenophon has immortalized the zeal of Parysatis in her efforts at placing her son Cyrus, the younger, upon the throne, and her plottings in his behalf against his elder brother Artaxerxes.
Among the many notable instances of the tragic end to which the plottings of the harem have come may be mentioned that of Tarkhann, mother of Mohammed IV.
Cases have not been unknown in Turkish history where several hundred women of the seraglio were drowned in the Bosphorus because of plottings to depose the sultan.
This can be interpreted as a measure of the frequency of adaptive plasticity versus adaptive conservatism; five of the 24 plottings show a plastic character, 19 a conservative.
Note that the plottings for the Picidae, Corvidae, Turdidae, Tyrannidae, and Icteridae each contain one point that is well-removed from a cluster of points.
There are 26 plottings that show temporal consistency, all of which may be taken as evidence of adaptive (or relictual) conservatism of the species in question.
Sidenote: Plottings of the Austrian and French parties for the succession.
Sidenote: Plottings of Napoleon and the abdication of Charles IV.
Don't start; the police know it well, and no one is more amused at their absurd plottings and conspirings than Fouche himself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plottings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
