complot

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Jack Reacher descubre un complot a nivel estatal para culpar a Susan Turner, la antigua jefa de su unidad, de traición al gobierno.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2019

Nay, if the Douglas and the Hepburn hatch the complot together, the bird when it breaks the shell will scare Scotland, will it not, my Fleming?'

From Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series) by Hutton, Richard Holt

I will leaue not a root, a stalke, a tree, A bowe, a branch, a blossome, nor a leafe,— Not, not a hearb within this garden plot, Accursed complot of my miserie!

From The Spanish Tragedie by Kyd, Thomas

And here they found John when they stole in one after the other, soft-footed, that the boy might suspect no complot.

From The Marriage of Elinor by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

My businesse craves the absence of the world: None but my selfe and Rodoricke shall behold The secret complot that I doe intend.

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)