"Conspirator" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Rupert said cordially, and Uncle Alfred, not used to a conspirator's part, stole a glance at Helen. She was standing near him; her stillness was broken by constant tiny movements, like ripples on a lake; she looked from one face to another as though she anticipated and watched the thoughts ...
— Moor Fires • E. H. (Emily Hilda) Young
... gentlemen who want me to become a conspirator," she said, "and to run the risk of all sorts of punishment and penalties for meddling ...
— Bonnie Prince Charlie - A Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden • G. A. Henty
... which Riccabocca saw not, despite all the excellence of his spectacles—heard phantasmal rustlings and murmurings which Riccabocca heard not, despite all that theoretical experience in plots, stratagems, and treasons, which should have made the Italian's ear as fine as a conspirator's or a mole's. And, with another violent but vain effort ...
— The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 • Various
... likely to require my services in connection with matters other than military. After an interminable wait—during the luncheon hour, too—Mr. Arthur Henderson, who was a very recent acquisition, emerged stealthily from the council chamber after the manner of the conspirator in an Adelphi drama, and intimated that they thought that they would be able to get on without me. In obedience to an unwritten law, the last-joined member was always expected to do odd jobs of this kind, just as at some schools the bottom boy of the form is called upon by ...
— Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 • Charles Edward Callwell
... I don't like it,' said Merton. 'Logan thinks that it is all right, but Logan is a born conspirator. However, as you are set on it, and as Sir Josiah's opinion carries great weight, you may go. But be very careful. Have you ...
— The Disentanglers • Andrew Lang
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