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  • Each of us got our heart buried in six feet of African dirt; we are all co-conspirators here.†   (source)
  • He was more interested in Michael's capacity to serve as an entertaining big brother and wily co-conspirator.†   (source)
  • His fellow conspirators would soon join him there.†   (source)
  • The bodies would turn up later in an advanced state of decomposition, and the conspirators would divide the $40,000 death benefit (equivalent to more than one million dollars in twenty-first-century valuation).†   (source)
  • Intelligence agencies can instantly create a web of all of a suspect's contacts, co-conspirators.†   (source)
  • She gave him a wink which had strangely unsettling undertones , a wink one conspirator might give another.†   (source)
  • He treated me with kindly contempt, which he thought the proper approach to artists, people who were no use as conspirators.†   (source)
  • Fermina Daza recovered from her shock after just a few days of country living and pleasant memories, but she did not leave the ranch except to go to Mass on Sundays with the grandchildren of her wayward conspirators of long ago, cowboys on magnificent horses and beautiful, well-dressed girls who were just like their mothers at their age and who rode standing in oxcarts and singing in chorus until they reached the mission church at the end of the valley.†   (source)
  • Most of our "evidence" came from witnessing the conspirators at work.†   (source)
  • And with a conspirator's wink.†   (source)
  • They would huddle over the table awhile, muttering like conspirators, sipping tea or one of his concoctions.†   (source)
  • Given unwillingly, mind you," he added on a conspirator's grin.†   (source)
  • When I shared my delicious secret with my longtime co-conspirator, he said, "No, I do not believe it.†   (source)
  • They watched each other in the fantastic, tiny glow—and smiled, almost like conspirators.†   (source)
  • Since leaving General Woundwort, he had become more and more deeply entangled in all the age-old terrors of the conspirator.†   (source)
  • "He'll jest about come to hisself befo' he dies," the older conspirator muttered to Shade as the stretcher passed them, and the skilled, white-jacketed attendants laid Pros Passmore in the vehicle without so much as disturbing his breathing.†   (source)
  • With Guitar as his co-conspirator, Milkman could look forward to both fun and fear.†   (source)
  • The secret won't keep for long, of course; but at present it is, I think, only known to us conspirators.†   (source)
  • I'm always willing to lend a helping hand to a fellow conspirator along the road to survival if he's willing to do the same for me.†   (source)
  • The original stories in the journal, which launched this book project, 'were made possible by the inspiration and guidance of John Brecher, the Journal's singular page one editor and my longtime co-conspirator; the support and counsel of Alan Murray, the paper's Washington Bureau chief; and the artful editing of Joanne Lipman.†   (source)
  • The secret police are searching for a co-conspirator named Marion Praise Stone.†   (source)
  • His three co-conspirators actually carried out the firebombing and were serving time in the federal prison system.†   (source)
  • With Woref or his conspirators listening, watching, the slightest advance that Thomas might make would result in her death.†   (source)
  • Conspirators?†   (source)
  • Startled birds fluttered out of their black recesses; crows awoke in the trees and cawed their alarms, and then, as if calmed by a foraging co-conspirator, kept silent.†   (source)
  • This is about a small group of conspirators.†   (source)
  • He gave her a conspirator's smile that stopped just short of a wink, meaning that she, knowing about horses, would understand what he was about to say.†   (source)
  • After he had used a urinal, as he washed his hands, Joe studied the other men in the mirror, seeking a conspirator.†   (source)
  • The only one of her conspirators to escape her father's net was Darkstar.†   (source)
  • "She could only have known these things if she was a conspirator against you," he explained.†   (source)
  • She smiled at him, as at a fellow conspirator, in relief, in deliverance, in radiant mockery of all the things she would never have to consider important again.†   (source)
  • What are you two conspirators doing out here after taps?†   (source)
  • The only fools in this room are you and your co-conspirator if you think you can avoid judgment of your crimes.†   (source)
  • She had convinced each conspirator that the others planned betrayal and intended to gorge alone upon her master.†   (source)
  • The story went that Peter Poyas said, "Die silent," when one of the slave conspirators appeared to be weakening under torture.†   (source)
  • However, even if the constitution banned peacetime armies, the conspirators could claim there is an approaching danger!†   (source)
  • Lucy has no idea that her lover has assembled a crack team of conspirators to help him bring down the president.†   (source)
  • Bruenor's grim tone brought many of the spokesmen to realize that the threat was simply too grave to be passed off as the deception of a desperate captive, or even as a more insidious plan by Cassius and some conspirators.†   (source)
  • Manuel, the life of a conspirator is not an easy one and I learned before you were born not to mix provender and politics.†   (source)
  • Although these instructions were firm in tone, they were rather lacking in specific direction, and I suppose it was only natural that half the population of Churchill should have concluded I was a member of a high-grade gang of gold-ore thieves attempting to make contact with my fellow conspirators; while the other half thought I was a prospector with knowledge of a secret mine somewhere in the vast interior Barrens.†   (source)
  • He answered, quietly, no. Conspirators, they were then.†   (source)
  • And if you ever get out of line, boy, I'll arrest him as your conspirator and hang him high.†   (source)
  • For she could not wriggle out from beneath the suffocating knowledge that there had been this time in her life when she had played out the role, to its limit, of a fellow conspirator in crime.†   (source)
  • He had not been seen, the conspirators had no suspicion of his presence.†   (source)
  • Watch and you'll see how preciously old people come to think they are made-the way they walk, like conspirators, bent over a little, filled with protection.†   (source)
  • Interplanetary conspirators, eat little Normal babies, &c.†   (source)
  • Now David had been told, "Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom." So David prayed, "O LORD, turn Ahithophel's counsel into foolishness."   (source)
  • suspected of being one of the conspirators
  • Booth was not the only conspirator shocked at what he read in the papers.†   (source)
  • One of the conspirators flapped his mouth and the story poured out.†   (source)
  • As the conspirators planned, the Bird entered the barracks.†   (source)
  • The three conspirators exchanged satisfied glances and then pushed back their chairs.†   (source)
  • Original wrist irons worn by the conspirators from their arrest to their execution.†   (source)
  • But the conspirators were too late; the Bird was nowhere to be found.†   (source)
  • None of Booth's conspirators knew it, but Booth had already implicated all of them!†   (source)
  • Mr. Smeath is grinning at me, a conspirator's grin.†   (source)
  • The conspirator stood up, wiping his mouth again, his large bulk hovering above the wood.†   (source)
  • "Project X?" he said softly, in the mysterious tone of a conspirator.†   (source)
  • He turned fiercely on his fellow conspirator.†   (source)
  • I don't want to be his mom, but rather a fellow conspirator.†   (source)
  • First he was a conspirator, now he's a jester.†   (source)
  • "Who are your fellow conspirators?" asked Mianaai, coldly.†   (source)
  • If the worst happens, we might even try his conspirator-for-a-conspirator theory.†   (source)
  • There once was a fifth conspirator, the one Booth traveled to Baltimore to corral the day before.†   (source)
  • Where do we find such a conspirator in Hong Kong?†   (source)
  • Mike O'Laughlen, the would-be conspirator who stalked the Grants last night, drinks in the corner.†   (source)
  • He wished the younger conspirator were here to take his share.†   (source)
  • "Nobody will," said Ferris; their voices had the cautious drone of conspirators.†   (source)
  • The same calibre as the one he had taken from another conspirator in Mao's tomb.†   (source)
  • None of the co-conspirators has any cause to doubt him.†   (source)
  • Booth has seen co-conspirators come and go since last August.†   (source)
  • The conspirators had colleagues in high places.†   (source)
  • Lewis Powell is the youngest and most experienced of the conspirators.†   (source)
  • The other conspirators underwent physical change for a very different reason.†   (source)
  • From the beginning, the public viewed all the conspirators as clearly criminals.†   (source)
  • Powell became a fellow-conspirator and captivated Jordan with a grin.†   (source)
  • The dramas her mother and Auntie had gone through over the years resembled those off-Broadway plays in which two characters perform all the roles: best friends and worst enemies, archrivals and gleeful conspirators.†   (source)
  • Some felt these men were seditious conspirators, or worse, Communists; others, that there should be no free meals, because they themselves had to work for every mouthful.†   (source)
  • Yet another of the conspirators, the planners of this robbery that left a man dead, was to go into the store prior to the robbery to check it out, to make sure that there were no police in the store.†   (source)
  • Though John Surratt had been a conspirator in the kidnapping plot, he was not even in Washington on the evening of the assassination.†   (source)
  • — let fall into the hands of the manhunters was obviously addressed to the actor by an unknown conspirator.†   (source)
  • And as Booth left the White House grounds, he spoke to companion and co-conspirator Lewis Powell: "That is the last speech he will ever give."†   (source)
  • In late 1864 and early 1865, Booth organized his own little band of conspirators, loyal to him and not the Confederacy.†   (source)
  • Atzerodt told him many details about the plot to kill Lincoln, the kidnapping plot, and the conspirators' final meeting on April 14.†   (source)
  • Herold would have answered that he had not seen Atzerodt since the conspirators parted earlier in the evening to carry out the three assassinations.†   (source)
  • Booth was already dead, so four of the eight conspirators who had been put on trial took center stage on execution day.†   (source)
  • Two other captured conspirators, Michael O'Laughlen and Sam Arnold, had already confessed everything they knew about the plot.†   (source)
  • He and his little band of conspirators would snatch Lincoln and transport him out of Washington, south to Richmond.†   (source)
  • The rapid conviction, sentencing, and execution of the Lincoln assassination conspirators concluded the trial that had lasted through May and June.†   (source)
  • He had to investigate the assassination, capture the conspirators, and organize a military tribunal to try them.†   (source)
  • Guards would rush to protect those threatened in the plot, and the conspirators would be hunted down.†   (source)
  • This engraving, from a book containing the transcript of the conspirators' trial, reflects the government's claim that Mary Surratt was at the center of the conspiracy.†   (source)
  • Booth and his conspirators had to be caught before they vanished into the Deep South, where they would find aid and comfort in the heart of the Confederacy.†   (source)
  • Following the swearing-in of Andrew Johnson as the seventeenth president, Stanton had issued a reward for Jefferson Davis and other Confederate officials, naming them as assassination conspirators.†   (source)
  • Booth and his gang of conspirators — Lewis Powell, David Herold, John Harrison Surratt, and George Atzerodt, as well as Samuel Arnold, Michael O'Laughlen, and others who drifted in and out of his circle — would change cheap talk to big action by kidnapping the president.†   (source)
  • At the Herndon House Hotel, around the corner from Ford's, at around 8:00 P.M., Booth presided over a meeting of some of the conspirators he had recruited over the previous months to strike against President Lincoln.†   (source)
  • At headquarters, the interrogator, Colonel Wells, wanted to know what had brought Mary's son and John Wilkes Booth together, about her son's relationship with the other possible conspirators, and what her connection was to the newly arrested Lewis Powell.†   (source)
  • Multiple killings are ascribed to him, if Only to distance the real killers from the scenes — conspirators from the politically fanatic right and left using Bourne's lethal image as their own.†   (source)
  • Don Apolinar Moscote had trouble identifying that conspirator in high boots and with a rifle slung over his shoulder with the person he had played dominoes with until nine in the evening.†   (source)
  • If the race-fixing conspirators could stop Seabiscuit, they could take advantage of the other horses' long odds, cash in huge bets, and disappear.†   (source)
  • A pale shadow and a dark, the two conspirators came together in the quiet of the armory on the Great Pyramid's second level, amongst racks of spears, sheaves of quarrels, and walls hung with trophies from forgotten battles.†   (source)
  • A dutiful conspirator, he passed Frank the can he'd filled from the stream and Frank told Grace to roll up her sleeves and immerse both arms up to the elbows.†   (source)
  • The red-robed wizard of Luskan shan't cast again!" he proclaimed too loudly for the likes of his fellow conspirators.†   (source)
  • It was an operation that was so timely, drastic, and effective that two months after the armistice, when Colonel Aureliano Buendia had recovered, his most dedicated conspirators were dead or exiled or had been assimilated forever into public administration.†   (source)
  • Conspirators did not advertise their association, and these old men were conspirators in the truest sense.†   (source)
  • Startled birds fluttered out of their black recesses; crows awoke in the trees and cawed their alarms, then, as if calmed by a foraging co-conspirator, kept silent.†   (source)
  • The queen's attention seemed to be wandering, no doubt put into flight, Nahuseresh thought, by surprise at the idea of honest Teleus as a conspirator.†   (source)
  • Like children, Maurice-René and Ralph clutched the franc notes, glancing at each other both as conspirators and as victors.†   (source)
  • His task, according to the original plans of the conspirators, was to stay behind and deal with inquisitive folk, and to keep up as long as possible the pretence that Mr. Baggins was still living at Crickhollow.†   (source)
  • "Or perhaps the lover of a conspirator," he added, "and if you look to see who that conspirator might be, I think you will find the captain of your guard a likely candidate.†   (source)
  • Rearden felt an exultant laughter swelling within him, he felt that he wanted, in his turn, to wink at Francisco like a fellow conspirator who had learned a secret Francisco would not acknowledge.†   (source)
  • He noticed that the puppets of the courtroom had started by glancing at him in the sly, wise manner of fellow conspirators sharing a common guilt, mutually safe from moral condemnation.†   (source)
  • 'It's not necessary for you to know the particulars, but you'll recognize the main point of your conspirator-for-a-conspirator theory.†   (source)
  • Rearden stood still and caught a brief instant when Francisco, not moving, looked at him with the hint of an amused smile that was like a wink between conspirators at a secret they both understood, but would not acknowledge.†   (source)
  • If what he believed was true, the guard at the gate would be changed, a conspirator put in his place.†   (source)
  • Send in a conspirator to catch a conspirator, not officially … It's too late for that now but it's what I would have told you.†   (source)
  • You see, Sheng knows me and I listened carefully when you outlined your conspirator-for-a-con-spirator theory to Havilland.†   (source)
  • Harrison Surratt" and a letter from former conspirator Samuel Arnold that implicates Michael O'Laughlen.†   (source)
  • Their hanging—for that is surely the fate awaiting any Lincoln conspirator—would leave their four young children orphans.†   (source)
  • The Hong Kong conspirator is every bit as anxious to protect himself as Sheng, and every bit as leery, demanding a neutral meeting ground.†   (source)
  • For this last communication he was not only unpleasantly arrogant but also used the name and the official — highly classified — identification number of a dead conspirator who lay underneath a Russian limousine in the Jing Shan Bird Sanctuary.†   (source)
  • In fact, Atzerodt is so unassuming that the sergeant in charge of the soldiers actually shares a few glasses of cider with the conspirator.†   (source)
  • There is still something of the conspirator in O'Laughlen, a willingness to take risks where others might not.†   (source)
  • Objective: a consortium of taipans with a central leader, whose son Sheng was taking over Hong Kong and turning the colony into the conspirators' own financial empire.†   (source)
  • Any hint that powerful criminal factions are in league with internal conspirators, infiltrating their economy, would be enough for them to disown the Accords and send their troops down into Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • The second co-conspirator is Lewis Powell—who also goes by the name Lewis Payne—a twenty-year-old who served as a Confederate soldier and spy before joining Booth's cause.†   (source)
  • And with what remained of his enormous strength, the badly wounded Lin picked up the bodies of the two dead conspirators and half dragged, half carried them back to his car.†   (source)
  • As Booth takes the train to Baltimore, hoping to reenlist a former conspirator for that night's expected executions, General Ulysses S. Grant and his wife, Julia, arrive in Washington at dawn.†   (source)
  • The dancing flames of torches grew brighter as the last of the conspirators arrived from the glen, led by the striding figure of Sheng Chou Yang, the ceremonial sword swinging at his side in its belted scabbard.†   (source)
  • All the sweating and the bloating of the skin from the heavy hoods conspired to make each conspirator look more and more swollen and rabid with each passing day.†   (source)
  • If they were conspirators — and everything he had seen and heard from Shenzhen to Tian an men Square to this wildlife preserve would seem to confirm it — the conspiracy reached into the hierarchy of Beijing.†   (source)
  • The scheme, however, is so crazy, so downright impossible that none of his co-conspirators will go along with it.†   (source)
  • She looks up at the ten-foot-high gallows, newly built for the execution of her and the other conspirators.†   (source)
  • When the trap had so disastrously collapsed inside Mao's tomb, a desecration that would shake the republic, the elite circle of conspirators had to regroup swiftly, secretly, beyond the scrutiny of their peers.†   (source)
  • The four conspirators squeeze into room 6 at the Herndon House hotel, a few blocks from the White House.†   (source)
  • The trial of all the co-conspirators, including Mary, began on May 10, and some 366 witnesses were called before it was over, seven weeks later.†   (source)
  • This brings the number of conspirators to six: Booth, Atzerodt, O'Laughlen, Arnold, and Seward's two unknown attackers.†   (source)
  • One missing suspect is twenty-one-year-old John Surratt, whose mother, Mary, provided Booth and his conspirators with weapons and lodging.†   (source)
  • But Mary's physical appearance, like that of her co-conspirators, began to change as the trial stretched into its sixth and seventh weeks.†   (source)
  • There has been no news of any other assassinations, so he can only assume that his conspirators have also failed—and he is right.†   (source)
  • One of her boarders, Louis Weichmann, has volunteered volumes of information to the authorities about the comings and goings of Booth and the conspirators at Mary Surratt's boardinghouse.†   (source)
  • With him are two co-conspirators.†   (source)
  • While some in the Confederate South now call Booth a martyr and hang pictures of him in their homes as they would for any family member, northerners are even more determined to see every last one of his co-conspirators found—and killed.†   (source)
  • She doesn't know about the secret trips to Montreal and New York to meet with other conspirators, nor about the hidden caches of guns or the buggy that Booth purchased specifically to ferry the kidnapped president out of Washington, nor about the money transfers that fund his entire operation.†   (source)
  • He has passed the time aimlessly since his meeting with Booth and the other conspirators, drawing attention to himself through the simple act of trying not to draw attention to himself At nine-thirty he visits Naylor's stable on E Street to pick up his horse.†   (source)
  • They stood or they crouched above Elpenor fallen in my yard, low-voiced now like conspirators-as indeed they were.†   (source)
  • We must be conspirators and deceive both Scarlett and Mr. Wilkes.†   (source)
  • I asked with an attempt at a wink such as two conspirators give each other.†   (source)
  • We spoke to one another softly like conspirators, we walked on tiptoe.†   (source)
  • All who have read of conspirators in books trust him instantly.†   (source)
  • 'Like conspirators who have something to whisper,' said Rhoda.†   (source)
  • Also he has the true manner of the conspirator.†   (source)
  • For what evidence had he in reality that O'Brien was any kind of political conspirator?†   (source)
  • By his heretical views on sport and soma, by the scandalous unorthodoxy of his sex-life, by his refusal to obey the teachings of Our Ford and behave out of office hours, 'even as a little infant,' " (here the Director made the sign of the T), "he has proved himself an enemy of Society, a subverter, ladies and gentlemen, of all Order and Stability, a conspirator against Civilization itself.†   (source)
  • But Neville, delicately avoiding interference, stealthily, like a conspirator, hastens back to his room.†   (source)
  • We are not together in the house of our friend and fellow conspirator, this most excellent and audacious hobbit-may the hair on his toes never fall out! all praise to his wine and ale!†   (source)
  • So they faced one another in the coalgrimed doorway, mad eyes looking into mad eyes, mad voice talking to mad voice as calm and quiet and terse as two conspirators.†   (source)
  • I do not know exactly what happened when the conspirators discovered that this part of their plan was impossible owing to the accident to the train.†   (source)
  • He was the commander of a vast shadowy army, an underground network of conspirators dedicated to the overthrow of the State.†   (source)
  • Toohey continued, and his voice had grown softer, as if Keating were a fellow conspirator who would know that the words used were to be, from now on, a code for a private meaning, "you might thank me for understanding the symbolic implications of your building and for stating them in words as you stated them in marble.†   (source)
  • I went back into the drawing-room and had another cup of tea which I thoroughly enjoyed now that the burden of entertaining had been taken from me, and Frank came too, and we crumbled up the remains of the scones and ate them, feeling like conspirators.†   (source)
  • He paused for breath and for a polite remark from the hob-bit, but the compliments were quite lost on-poor Bilbo Baggins, who was wagging his mouth in protest at being called audacious and worst of all fellow conspirator, though no noise came out, he was so flummoxed.†   (source)
  • Any one seeing him enter a room knows that he is instantly in the presence of a conspirator of the first mark.†   (source)
  • You have imagined, probably, a huge underworld of conspirators, meeting secretly in cellars, scribbling messages on walls, recognizing one another by codewords or by special movements of the hand.†   (source)
  • We who are conspirators, withdrawn together to lean over some cold urn, note how the purple flame flows downwards.†   (source)
  • It is the face of a conspirator.†   (source)
  • —and came to the surface and saw the conspirators still standing there it was with some compunction.†   (source)
  • We have sacrificed the embrace among the ferns, and love, love, love by the lake, standing, like conspirators who have drawn apart to share some secret, by the urn.†   (source)
  • Listen, Rhoda (for we are conspirators, with our hands on the cold urn), to the casual, quick, exciting voice of action, of hounds running on the scent.†   (source)
  • Louis and Rhoda, the conspirators, the spies at table, who take notes, felt, "After all, Bernard can make the waiter fetch us rolls—a contact denied us."†   (source)
  • Who and where is the false conspirator who says that I denounce the husband of my child!†   (source)
  • "No," replied Villefort; "a faithful servant of the king does not know conspirators."†   (source)
  • [213] The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.†   (source)
  • I was a boy, too young to be a conspirator.†   (source)
  • A sort of Byronic hero—an amorous conspirator, it strikes me.†   (source)
  • First, I know that here we are whispering in secrecy, a pair of conspirators.†   (source)
  • Why are you sitting there like conspirators?†   (source)
  • Now, then, were a conspirator to fall into your hands, he would be most welcome.†   (source)
  • He covered her hand with his and said in the old pleasant voice of a conspirator for pleasure, mischief, profit, and delight: "See that boat out there?"†   (source)
  • Venters had come for that and for more—he wanted to meet Tull face to face; if not Tull, then Dyer; if not Dyer, then anyone in the secret of these master conspirators.†   (source)
  • The embers of the great fire had so far burned themselves out and now glowed so low and duskily that I understood why these conspirators desired a torch.†   (source)
  • "He is a traitor! a conspirator!" shouted Lebedeff, who seemed to have lost all control over himself.†   (source)
  • They were all at the Opera that night, but looked round in vain for the fierce conspirators whom they were instructed to suppress.†   (source)
  • In short the last man in the world, one would think, to be overburthened with thoughts, especially those perilous thoughts that must needs belong to a conspirator in any serious project, or even to the underling of such a conspirator.†   (source)
  • As his glance travelled from one placid well-fed face to another he saw all the harmless-looking people engaged upon May's canvas-backs as a band of dumb conspirators, and himself and the pale woman on his right as the centre of their conspiracy.†   (source)
  • …dollars a vote to the Democrats' three; and "Buck" Halloran sat one night playing cards with Jurgis and another man, who told how Halloran had been charged with the job voting a "bunch" of thirty-seven newly landed Italians, and how he, the narrator, had met the Republican worker who was after the very same gang, and how the three had effected a bargain, whereby the Italians were to vote half and half, for a glass of beer apiece, while the balance of the fund went to the conspirators!†   (source)
  • They reached the empty space in front of the church, where they stopped a moment, looking at each other with something of an air of closer fellowship—like two sociable conspirators.†   (source)
  • His instinct was to regard her as a conspirator against rather than as an antecedent obstacle to Thomasin's happiness.†   (source)
  • You look like four conspirators.†   (source)
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