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

Rodoricke, thou highly favourest me in this And doubt not, if my complot take effect, Ile make thee Duke of Burbon.

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

To what fell complot was I then exposed!

From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Baudelaire, Charles

There is a rumour in letters of some disturbance or complot in the French Pyrenean army—generals suspected or dismissed, and ministers of war travelling to see what's the matter.

From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas

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