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a secret agreement or plot — especially to do something illegal or harmful
- Another professor showed me a large paper of instructions for discovering plots and conspiracies against the government.Part 3 — A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, .... (57% in)
- He was perfectly astonished with the historical account gave him of our affairs during the last century; protesting "it was only a heap of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres, revolutions, banishments, the very worst effects that avarice, faction, hypocrisy, perfidiousness, cruelty, rage, madness, hatred, envy, lust, malice, and ambition, could produce."Part 2 — A Voyage to Brobdingnag (72% in)
- These rogues, whom I had picked up, debauched my other men, and they all formed a conspiracy to seize the ship, and secure me; which they did one morning, rushing into my cabin, and binding me hand and foot, threatening to throw me overboard, if I offered to stir.Part 4 — A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnms (1% in)
- I gave him a very short relation of my voyage; of the conspiracy against me by my own men; of the country where they set me on shore, and of my five years residence there.Part 4 — A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnms (87% in)
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