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

Richard's speech:   Nor never by advised purpose meet,   To plot, contrive, or complot any ill,   'Gainst us, our state, our subjects, or our land.

From Literary Remains, Volume 2 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Nay, if the Douglas and the Hepburn hatch the complot together, the bird, when it breaks the shell, will scare Scotland.

From The Abbot by Scott, Walter, Sir

Live, worthy Philip; Pembrooke bids thee live, That did suspect this complot at the tombe When in the honour of Prince Ferdinand You did resigne your shield.

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

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)