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- Lucy has no idea that her lover has assembled a crack team of conspirators to help him bring down the president.†
p. 4.9 *conspirators = participants involved in a secret plot
- 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.†
p. 28.9
- The scheme, however, is so crazy, so downright impossible that none of his co-conspirators will go along with it.†
p. 94.9
- With him are two co-conspirators.†
p. 107.3
- 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.†
p. 107.6conspirator = a participant involved in a secret plot
- Booth has seen co-conspirators come and go since last August.†
p. 119.1conspirators = participants involved in a secret plot
- 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.†
p. 128.1conspirator = a participant involved in a secret plot
- The four conspirators squeeze into room 6 at the Herndon House hotel, a few blocks from the White House.†
p. 133.1conspirators = participants involved in a secret plot
- Lewis Powell is the youngest and most experienced of the conspirators.†
p. 133.8
- There once was a fifth conspirator, the one Booth traveled to Baltimore to corral the day before.†
p. 136.1conspirator = a participant involved in a secret plot
- There is still something of the conspirator in O'Laughlen, a willingness to take risks where others might not.†
p. 138.1
- There has been no news of any other assassinations, so he can only assume that his conspirators have also failed—and he is right.†
p. 139.2conspirators = participants involved in a secret plot
- None of the co-conspirators has any cause to doubt him.†
p. 188.4
- 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.†
p. 204.9
- Mike O'Laughlen, the would-be conspirator who stalked the Grants last night, drinks in the corner.†
p. 214.6conspirator = a participant involved in a secret plot
- Booth has left behind an abundance of clues—among them a business card bearing the name "J. Harrison Surratt" and a letter from former conspirator Samuel Arnold that implicates Michael O'Laughlen.†
p. 237.4
- This brings the number of conspirators to six: Booth, Atzerodt, O'Laughlen, Arnold, and Seward's two unknown attackers.†
p. 237.6conspirators = participants involved in a secret plot
- In fact, Atzerodt is so unassuming that the sergeant in charge of the soldiers actually shares a few glasses of cider with the conspirator.†
p. 239.9conspirator = a participant involved in a secret plot
- Their hanging—for that is surely the fate awaiting any Lincoln conspirator—would leave their four young children orphans.†
p. 247.4
- 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.†
p. 253.7conspirators = participants involved in a secret plot
- 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.†
p. 277.4
- One missing suspect is twenty-one-year-old John Surratt, whose mother, Mary, provided Booth and his conspirators with weapons and lodging.†
p. 277.8
- 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.†
p. 277.9
- From the beginning, the public viewed all the conspirators as clearly criminals.†
p. 278.1
- But Mary's physical appearance, like that of her co-conspirators, began to change as the trial stretched into its sixth and seventh weeks.†
p. 278.2
- The other conspirators underwent physical change for a very different reason.†
p. 278.5
- 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.†
p. 278.7conspirator = a participant involved in a secret plot
- She looks up at the ten-foot-high gallows, newly built for the execution of her and the other conspirators.†
p. 280.6conspirators = participants involved in a secret plot
Definitions:
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(1)
(conspirator) a member of a conspiracy (a secret plot)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)