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secretly plan together to do something — especially something illegal or harmful
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of events and circumstances: seemingly cooperate to achieve something
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of events and circumstances: seemingly cooperate to achieve something
- Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore?Chapters 22-24 -- Merry Christmas; The Lee Shore; The Advocate (51% in)
- So that, through their zeal for him, they had all conspired, so far as in them lay, to muffle up the knowledge of this thing from others; and hence it was, that not till a considerable interval had elapsed, did it transpire upon the Pequod's decks.Chapters 106-108 -- Ahab's Leg; The Carpenter; Ahab and the Carpenter (21% in)
There are no more uses of "conspire" in Moby Dick.
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