scheming
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Scheming Corvette is Palmer’s newest marvelously louche heroine.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026
Scheming in embroidered cloche hats, it sipped tea and fingered jewels while listening to the gossip of the haut monde.
From Slate • Mar. 18, 2014
His final season includes a production of Dion Boucicault's The School for Scheming, and the UK premiere of It Just Stopped by Australian playwright Stephen Sewe.
From BBC • Nov. 22, 2013
It also has a licensing agreement with figurine manufacturer Bradford Exchange, raising fans’ hopes for a range of “Downton” dolls — Scheming Thomas and Admirable Bates, perhaps.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 16, 2013
In the intellectual region our more thorough analysis gives us for the higher understanding, not merely Comparative Sagacity and Causality, but Foresight, Sagacity, Judgment, Wit, Reason, Ingenuity and Scheming or planning.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887 Volume 1, Number 10 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)
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