There, too, moves the game of politics in plot and counterplot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876] Reference

But perhaps I shall find out a smuggler to counterplot Miss Howe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

"I suppose I should be spinning some elaborate counterplot," he said hopelessly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Agent Of The Terran Empire]

The admiral evidently had known all, and was prepared with a perfect counterplot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference

Myra, always imagining stories that she might use as plays, concocts a counterplot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Not the Girl Next Door] Reference

It was warfare dark and devious, replete with intrigue and conspiracy, plot and counterplot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 16: The End] Reference

VINCI (on camera): There isn't a plot inside the Vatican to prepare a counterplot to what Dan Brown is saying?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 16, 2006] Reference

You are the victim of some fiendish counterplot by the man, who has not quite mastered what the woman is driving at.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crimson Blind] Reference

Amid all the plot and counterplot theories, the possibility is often raised that the government just acted stupidly.    From Wordnik.com.  [1968 the Year that Rocked the World]

And now there was more reason than ever to believe that Fidel Castro had instigated a counterplot in retaliation for attempts on his life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Assassination Tapes] Reference

His policy was one of endless plot and counterplot.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Italian sketches] Reference

None of your plots against me; I'll counterplot you!.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Copperfield] Reference

What characters belong in common to plot and counterplot?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies] Reference

They lived stormy, tumultuous lives, torn by plot and counterplot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers] Reference

Dublin a singular counterplot in this perplexed drama awaited them.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics - Volume 2] Reference

No need here to track him through plot and counterplot with Catholics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History] Reference

But nobody else saw either plot or counterplot, until one morning, when.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada] Reference

Running like a thread through all these events was a little counterplot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.)] Reference

They must act or perish; they must plot and counterplot, or be submerged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phantom Wires A Novel] Reference

So now for a counterplot -- alas! the counterplot would not unfold for me!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cavalier] Reference

The story of each year, with its plot and counterplot, I have told elsewhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom] Reference

Government counterplot, as is very probable, it was not likely to be any of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot] Reference

But the waters were seething now, stirred to their very lees by plot and counterplot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secret Witness] Reference

The king is only, or he appears, tricksy because you compel him to wind and counterplot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vittoria — Complete] Reference

Ever the unexpected happens, surprise follows surprise, plot is succeeded by counterplot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Blunders of a Bashful Man] Reference

It was evident that I had been plunged into the center of intrigue, plot and counterplot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blindfolded] Reference

’Tis a counterplot that’s really brilliant, and will get us all clear out of the affair.    From Wordnik.com.  [I. Gringoire Has Several Bright Ideas in Succession in the Rue des Bernardins. Book X] Reference

Thus, with plot and counterplot, did the mutineers and Otaheitans render their lives wretched.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers] Reference

An obscure period of plot and counterplot followed which culminated in the ruin of Marcel and his followers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Paris] Reference

The night had been one long story of plot and counterplot; of Revolutionaries fleeing from street to street.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aladdin of London or, Lodestar] Reference

Order had come out of the chaos of plot and counterplot; Trevison's course was to be as direct as his hatred.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Firebrand' Trevison] Reference

Great Britain was rent with civil war: plot and counterplot -- intrigue, feud, fear and vengeance -- filled the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers] Reference

Disraeli's imagination, at once practical and extravagant, is not of the kind that delights in plot and counterplot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation] Reference

Either he or some one else had devised an effective counterplot; effective considered as a second act in a comic opera.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gossamer 1915] Reference

I have a right to counterplot them; self-preservation, as well as my friend's safety, require that I should not be too scrupulous. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Redgauntlet] Reference

'Why, dearest, of course I don't believe it -- it is some plot, and a very clumsy plot too; but we must take measures to counterplot it.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dictator] Reference

'Oh! no! make yourself easy,' said Mrs. Dallington, smiling; 'no counterplot, I assure you, although really you do not deserve to succeed.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Duke] Reference