marplot

Example Sentences

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And where, all this time, was she, the unfortunate cause of all his misery, and the most unintentional marplot in this history?

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Therefore the Prince of Wales must be the very Marplot or L'Etourdi of princes, if he cannot contrive to make himself endurable to a people who will bear so much rather than be at the trouble of a change.

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Probably the disturbing, distracting vein of unconquerable levity so conspicuous in the character of his father, is the marplot of the son's career, too.

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“Get this young marplot out of here and let no more of his ilk in again.”

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If the muse of history had not intervened as Marplot at this moment, there is no telling which way the scale would have turned, for it was nicely balanced.

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