These observations are not made in a corner; there is no low intrigue; no secret machination.

Miss Ingate said with noticeable calm, but also with the air of a conspirator who sees danger to a most secret machination:

His most secret machinations could not have withstood thy searching spirit.

Even Trump now admits that the secret machinations of Moscow played a hidden hand in his election.

Nothing would be refused to one who like Eugène had steeped his hands in the most secret machinations.

The victim of his secret machinations was expressing himself in words, words;-thatwas the point which counted with him.

Thus the divine bounty, out of the malignant enemies secret machinations, can cause good effects to arise and succeede.

Was his presence at the dangerous outpost an answer to suspicions, or was it a cloak to hide secret machinations?

If danger ever threatened the very existence of the state it is now from the secret machinations of this god-denying tribe.'

He would have need of it to secure, by becoming generosity, the means of meeting the secret machinations of his enemies at Court.

The war on the Miami, which was brought to a bloody close by Wayne's victory, was, principally, the result of such secret machinations.

It is the quality of patriotism to be jealous and watchful, to observe all secret machinations, and to see publick dangers at a distance.

Walter Radnor, the assassin, had 'claims' upon an office, and, rightly or wrongly, he attributed his defeat to the secret machinations of John Forder.

This project of his, which he was furthering by astute secret machinations, had come to the knowledge of a loyal member of the Emperor's retinue.