How To Use preconcerted In A Sentence
- following preconcerted plans
- Are its movements identical with those of the body, or only preconcerted and coincident with them, or is one simply an aspect of the other? Theaetetus
- Why is Mrs. Bardell so earnestly entreated not to agitate herself about this warming – pan, unless (as is no doubt the case) it is a mere cover for hidden fire — a mere substitute for some endearing word or promise, agreeably to a preconcerted system of correspondence, artfully contrived by Pickwick with a view to his contemplated desertion, and which I am not in a condition to explain? The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
- The combat raged without intermission until nightfall: three cannon shots, discharged at the extremity of either line, then marked as if preconcertedly, the pause of battle; and both armies bivouacked exactly where the morning light had found them. The History of Napoleon Buonaparte
- The waggon had just arrived at the gates, which were opened for the boat to enter, when the Athenians, with whom the whole affair had been preconcerted, seeing this movement, rushed out of the ambuscade, wanting to get in before the gates were shut again and while the waggon was still in them, and prevented them from being closed. The History of the Peloponnesian War
- In company with these gentlemen, Kate and I, preconcertedly, paid uncle Rumgudgeon a visit on the afternoon of Sunday, October the tenth -- just three weeks after the memorable decision which had so cruelly defeated our hopes. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6
- One other circumstance is worthy of remark; and that is, that from the moment of their first outbreak at Westminster, every symptom of order or preconcerted arrangement among them vanished. Barnaby Rudge
- Frankly speaking, I've no preconcerted destination at all when I set off but I'd cherished a dream, which makes me feel vigorous and young again.
- Edward and Dick were near coming in for some hard usage from Goggins, conceiving it might be a preconcerted attempt on the part of his prisoners and their newly arrived friends to achieve a rescue; and while he was rolling about on the ground, he roared to his evil-visaged janitor to look to the door first, and keep him from being "murthered" after. Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life
- The other lady, too, as well as her husband, the short gentleman with the tall hat, were plainly on guard, according to a preconcerted plan; and the wretched man was so secured by Mrs MacStinger, that any effort at self – preservation by flight was rendered futile. Dombey and Son
