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But they were no match for the grim machination thrown against them.
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Ages of machination...' He lifted his hands to gesture about the empty room.
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After centuries of manipulation and machination, the Dragon Court had won.
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Honest and straightforward, what could he do against this far-reaching machination?
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Not to any man I knew could the machination, for a moment, be attributed.
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The protest of the church was of no avail to defeat the machination of demagogues.
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It was the day before yesterday, that I obtained the key of that dark machination.
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She believes herself, like the daughters of Marshal Simon, the victim of an odious machination.
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And if we would render ourselves proof against its machination, we must remove our weaknesses.
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All MacTaggart's anger rose against madame for her machination.
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What abominable machination might she not expect from the villain who had deliberately dishonored Pascal?
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These observations are not made in a corner; there is no low intrigue; no secret machination.
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What far-reaching machination was he so laboriously evolving?
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No longer will a man come to be dictator by force or oratory, propaganda, or political machination.
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In a flash of panic, Crane wondered if it was all a diabolical machination of Brent Taber's.
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By constant machination and intrigue the king's revenues have been so depleted that ordinary debts are troublesome.