machinate

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To save the family mortgage, a girl machinates to marry her elder sister off to a young man who has just struck oil and is therefore eligible.

From Time Magazine Archive

One machinates in the face of many green shutters, which are not necessarily dead because they are shut.

From Little Novels of Italy by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

Machinā′tion, act of machinating or contriving a scheme for carrying out some purpose, esp. an evil one: an artful design or plot: Mach′inator, one who machinates.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

Valorbe follows, and, to get hold of Delphine, machinates one of the most absurd scenes in the whole realm of fiction.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George