Plot

Usage examples of connive.

I may also tell you that I have strong reasons for suspecting that our intercourse is known to the State Inquisitors, who conceal their knowledge for political reasons, but I fancy the secret would soon come to light when I am no longer here, and when the nun who connives at your departure from the convent knows that it is no longer for me that you leave it.

My dear friend, we were a thorn in the Delink flesh, so they connived with you to pull it out.

The Democrats had unpardonably connived with one of the greatest evils of the twentieth century.

The nearest doctor was miles away at Pontiac, and for any man to face the journey was to connive with death.

He was accused of having connived in the French revolt during its earlier stages and having taken a third part of the plunder as payment for non-intervention, of making his victory the excuse for further plunder of loyal provincials, and of afterwards imposing excessive emergency taxes on the province for the expenses of the campaign.

Jones and his ragged companion had certain purposes in their intention, which, though tolerated in some Christian countries, connived at in others, and practised in all, are however as expressly forbidden as murder, or any other horrid vice, by that religion which is universally believed in those countries.

Hugh of Austra has connived with Queen Adelheid and the skopos herself, the Holy Mother Anne, to make Henry their creature in all ways.

As he scrambled to his feet, he thought about how he and Knucklebones were hunted, and how Ox, Mother, and Lothar had died, because a spoiled brat had connived to repay an injury, and the city guards had colluded with him.

It was Rosetti who suggested they go upstairs, without any awkwardness or connived double entendre, escorting her to her door with the promise to see her for breakfast and moving on to his own room the moment she turned the key in the lock.

Quellen had connived to get a chunk of Africa registered under a blind name for which he was the nominee.

A small blue dot lurked around the shore just outside the city walls, where Ambassador Laquatus connived and plotted.

Neither a conniving and impractical sorcerer nor a grief-stricken madman was fit for the job.

Muncel was a vain, petty, small-minded, conniving cheat who could barely wield a sword and did not understand the concept of honor.

When treason was abetted by stupidity, venality, and petty bickering, he saw the patriot's duty as clear: to scratch and claw and connive one's way to the place where one's personal abilities could make the vital difference.

However, during a banquet Mortiiy, possibly stimulated with strong drink, took his father, Cling, to task on the outrageous accusation that Cling, not liking the eldest brother, had connived to have him murdered under the apparency of the air-limousine accident.