What is "schemings"

Usage examples of "schemings".

So even if Brian temporarily succeeds in his grandiose schemings, just how long will it be before some client king, impatient at the strictures Brian lays down, goes about expelling or killing the High King's men and takes back his lands for him and his people?

Why you are aboard in such guise I have no idea, but then the doings and schemings of such persons as yourself are not and should not be and have never been the affair of this lowly one.

Go now, the spirit of the Destroy­er's mind rises above the petty schemings of other mortals,"