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Definition of Plotters
1. plotter [n] - See also: plotter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plotters
Literary usage of Plotters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander Kinglake (1877)
"Those whose views had lain in this direction were shocked out of their hopes
when, on the Apparent 2d of December, they came to find that all the plotters ..."
2. The Church History of Britain: From the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, John Sherren Brewer (1845)
"27- But first be it remembered, that though these - plotters intended at last
with honour to own the must be action, when success had made all things secure ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... but was unable to protect him from the malice of the plotters who succeeded
in getting him arrested and sent to the Gatehouse prison where he died. ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"The same strain was probably roared or screamed by popular songsters under Har-
ley's windows, and within hearing of the plotters in office as they ..."
5. History of England from the Accession of James I to the Outbreak of the by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1904)
"... courtiers charged with participation in the Army Plot would appear before the
Lords' Committee. News, however, soon arrived that Percy, the plotters. ..."
6. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"Pictured forth in a second arraignment, or gaol-delivery of Malignants, Jesuits,
Arminians, and Cabinet-counsellors, being the fatal engineers, plotters, ..."
7. The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the Christian People by William Sewel (1844)
"And likewise I do deny all plots, and contrivances, and plotters and contrivers
against the king and his subjects ; knowing them to be works of darkness, ..."
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