It was his belief that when the time came, the Apaches, at a preconcerted signal, would rush tumultuously up the steep in a determined effort to overwhelm them all.
They were working by a preconcerted arrangement, like corresponding parts of some machine, understanding each other so well that there was no need for explanation.
The King was prodigal with his messengers and tireless in sketching plans of campaign for himself and his allies; the only detail which he allowed himself to neglect was the carrying out of his share of the preconcerted action.
He also heard Pierre Adet speak of the conflagration as a preconcerted signal, and say that he and his mates would meet the lads of the neighbouring villages at the cross-roads .
By what operative power are they impelled to make this exit at the same period, as ifpreconcerted by mutual agreement?
When they undertake to rob an orchard or vineyard (for they are extremely fond of grapes and apples,) they go in large companies, and with preconcerted deliberation.
At the repetition of this phrase, as if it had been a preconcerted signal, a dozen stalwart figures started up from the darkness and surrounded Monte-Cristo, who instantly discharged his weapon right and left among them.
Flocon entered the salon, and, as if by somepreconcerted arrangement, at once sought his political friends.
The determination with which Swift persisted in a preconcerted theory, savoured of the morbid affection of which he died.
McCall tells the story as if Jack's march in the middle of July were part of a preconcerted plan, in which South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia participated.
Paul Revere immediately caused the preconcerted signal-light to be set in a church-tower at the north end of Boston, and crossing the river in a boat, he mounted a horse on the Charlestown side and started on his famous midnight ride.
It is not quite impossible that the pitcher of water was a signal preconcerted with some disciple in Jerusalem, although secret understandings are not found elsewhere in the life of Jesus.
And this concourse, evidently preconcerted and unfriendly, explains the first murmurs of opposition recorded by St. Mark.
There are no preconcerted movements, no combinations with centers, wings, and reserves.
If the inmate has to meet anyone he appoints a trysting place at some spot in the woods and there the visitor, by beating on the butress[sic] of a tree or by any other preconcerted signal, announces his presence.
Eric with a rifle and harpoon got round the seals by way of the land; while Fritz, equally well provided with weapons, assailed them from the sea in the boat, both making a rush together by a preconcerted signal.
The Mexicans now retreated into the town itself, where we pursued them; but this it appears was by a preconcerted plan, and had almost proved fatal to us.
From this place the enemy, by a preconcerted plan, fell back, as Alvarado advanced, to another position, where they had posted above 6000 of their men.
The treasurer, without saying a word to Albornoz, instantly assembled the whole of Cortes' party, and repaired at their head to the house where the conspirators had met for the purpose of sallying out in a body at a preconcerted signal.
The third day has come, on which, by preconcerted agreement, Jonathan was to reveal to David his father's state of mind.
This form, which is known as the "single stroke bell," lends itself to those cases in which it may be required to transmit preconcerted signals; as also where it is desired to place many bells in one circuit.
It was the preconcerted signal, and springing to her feet, Komel stole quickly to that part of the seraglio wall nearest the water.
The spot from whence she had listened to that tender and dearly loved song of her native valley, and nearly in the same place she sat now, again evidently listening and expecting the coming of some person or preconcerted signal.
It is evident that certain numbers of successive divergences might be made to denote particular preconcerted signals.
Tis Ranulph Rookwood," said Alan; "that was thepreconcerted signal.
The prospect of this danger, combined with the news from France, brought the long preconcerted resolve of the other side to sudden and immediate maturity.
But the Greek coming forward to speak looked like a preconcerted answer to the Armenian.
The preconcerted signal of alarm was immediately given; and the troops took up the positions which had been assigned to them in anticipation of this attack.
At the end of the sermon a preconcerted signal is given, and in a moment the cannons are fired in all the quarters of the city to chase the devil out of the walls or to kill him, if he dares to resist.
Next morning there was a general engagement, Provera attacking in front, and Wurmser, by preconcerted arrangement, sallying out from behind at the head of a strong force.
The first, though precipitated into action by fortunate discoveries on the part of the government, had been anxiously preconcerted for three years.
The mail coaches, agreeably to the preconcerted plan, had all been intercepted; their non-arrival being every where understood by the conspirators as a silent signal that the war had commenced.
Here this topic was succeeded by others, and the conversation ceased not till the hour had arrived on which I had preconcerted to visit Mrs. Fielding.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "preconcerted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
