counterplot

How To Use counterplot In A Sentence

• By this fellow’s means, I have counterplotted all his master’s fine schemes. Saint Ronan's Well
• They looked on each other as sworn enemies, and there was kept up a continual system of plotting and counterplotting. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
• When her husband is murdered outside a house of male prostitution, she joins forces with Christopher Marlowe, famed play maker, her husband's former lover, and frequent spy in his own right, to uncover the plotting and counterplotting that endangers not only her family's solvency, but the security of England. HH Com 241 (237)
• It may, perhaps, be a question, whether the art which he used to conceal his passion, or the means which honest nature employed to reveal it, betrayed him most: for while art made him more than ever reserved to Sophia, and forbad him to address any of his discourse to her, nay, to avoid meeting her eyes, with the utmost caution; nature was no less busy in counterplotting him. VI. By Comparing Which with the Former, the Reader May Possibly Correct Some Abuse Which He Hath Formerly Been Guilty of in the Application of the Word Love. Book V
• It's all worth doing from the start, no matter what it is: working, fighting, marching and countermarching, plotting and counterplotting, backing your friends and hating your foes, playing big games and giving others a chance to, standing with your hand on the lynch-pin, or pulling your head safe out of the hot-pot. The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
• I had a scheme for collecting that ransom without danger of being caught by counterplots that ought to commend itself to professional kidnappers.
• By this fellow's means, I have counterplotted all his master's fine schemes. St. Ronan's Well
• Add to these a little love and counterplotting, and scatter everywhere throughout the maze a trail of tropical dollars -- dollars warmed no more by the torrid sun than by the hot palms of the scouts of Fortune -- and, after all, here seems to be Life, itself, with talk enough to weary the most garrulous of Walruses. Cabbages and Kings
• But unlike most of the conspiracies, plots and counterplots in the Lockerbie saga, this one has been solved in days, rather than years.
• Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones. source: Variety HBO Greenlights Fantasy Television Pilot for George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones | /Film