What is "schemer"

Usage examples of "schemer".

Around the figure of the little fiery, impulsive, boastful South Carolinian gathered a group of ambitious schemers who determined to make him President.

Again, the invasion enlightened the Fenian foemen and all other schemers who cast covetous eyes in our direction, that the Canadians were capable of protecting themselves, and were ready at all times to do their duty on the field of battle in defence of their native land and its institutions.

United the two men might be in their hatred of the French, republicanism, and Catholics, but Hendon was far too much a stickler for the preeminence of rules and propriety to ever find favor with a Machiavellian schemer like Jarvis.

Ever since he got here last September, Schemer has been riding Sturm and his men about security.

Grinning as though he had never felt better, Schemer walked over to Sturm, who lay gasping on the ground, and offered him a hand.

Major 0 Schemer humiliated Sergeant Sturm in the alley, but in those hours Gunther Sturm had boiled with a rage unlike any he had ever known.

The obscure schemers of ten years ago have become big financiers, intrenched behind their money-bags as behind an impregnable fort.

Or maybe Melton and the other high-priced schemers will bring flashcards and hope for the best.

The only doubt that occurred to her was whether, with the best intentions in the world, he would be able unassisted to foil a pair of schemers so distant from each other geographically as the man who called himself Jimmy Crocker and the man who had called himself Skinner.

Evidently his presence was necessary to the consummation of the plot, whatever it might be, and it occurred to her that it might be as well, on the principle of giving the schemers enough rope to hang themselves with, to let him come back and play his part.

They are the failures, the Uriah Keeps of humanity, schemers, wreckers of marriages and reputations purely from malicious motivation.

He could foresee, too, certain details of that coming crime, even though the two schemers had mentioned very few of its particulars during the while that he had listened.

When that palled I would plot the destruction of Gorshkov, that prick on wheels, and the KGB schemer Andropov, whose hobbyhorse this whole bioenergetics farce is, and put an end to it, and get on with the Extremely Low Frequency Broadcaster, just as the Yankees have done.

His opponents professed to see in him a dark and wily schemer, plotting to sell England to Hitler, but it is far likelier that he was merely a stupid old man doing his best according to his very dim lights.

The non-ops never have been able to decide whether we're operant role models or a gang of un­holy elitist schemers.