deep-laid plans.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : a deep-laid plot.    From Dictionary.com. 

Look that warily then deep-laid in steady remembrance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference

He believed now that he was the victim of a deep-laid plot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Thousand Dollars Reward] Reference

It may all be a part of a very deep-laid plan of the Greeks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 26, May 6, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] Reference

He did not suspect that this was part of a deep-laid plot of Bill's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Injun and Whitey to the Rescue] Reference

O how deep-laid are the mischiefs designed to fall on my devoted head! —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pamela] Reference

His deceptions are more subtle and deep-laid than those of the Grecian adept.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

But there could be no deep-laid trap in this-no more than the obvious dangers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fate of the Phoenix]

He himself had had no very deep-laid scheme in his addresses to Colonel Osborne.    From Wordnik.com.  [He Knew He Was Right] Reference

Whatever he did know of Miriam and her deep-laid plans and schemes, he divulged to no one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Harlowe's Sophomore Year at High School The Record of the Girl Chums in Work and Athletics] Reference

If such was the fact, the minister was compelled to acknowledge that it was a deep-laid plot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue] Reference

He believes this commitment is the result of a deep-laid conspiracy on the part of the District.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in Forensic Psychiatry] Reference

The reward of patient toil and deep-laid schemes yields not half the pleasure that did the little.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Grandmother's Recollections] Reference

There were also strong reasons for thinking that the accusation was the result of a deep-laid plot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference

In every adverse decision of the court he sees a deep-laid conspiracy to deprive him of his rights.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in Forensic Psychiatry] Reference

"I don't think we need to fantasize about some dark, deep-laid Soviet plan here," Schellenberg said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carrie]

A very little reflection has since convinced me that she has a deep-laid scheme against Michael Vanstone in view.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Name] Reference

Here was no scope for the conception and excitation of deep-laid schemes; the movements of the enemy were too rapid.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

If you put a rose in your hair it's a deep-laid scheme, deeper than you perceive -- the scheme the universe is built on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hilda A Story of Calcutta] Reference

What worried him was the wire-cutting; he could not but believe that it was an important part of the deep-laid labour conspiracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE DREAM OF DEBS] Reference

And it was easier, they did not have as many of the fears, the very deep-laid fears, and bigoted attitudes that men were reared in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin, August 4, 1974. Interview G-0034. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

As delicate as a snowflake, as intricate as the finest lacework, the strands of power that bound them all were deep-laid, but strong.    From Wordnik.com.  [Magic's Price]

No love, no devotedness, could efface the remembrance of her connivance at that deep-laid plot which had imposed her upon him as a wife.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notable Women of Olden Time] Reference

"I believe it was some deep-laid plot," said Phil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dave Porter and His Rivals or, The Chums and Foes of Oak Hall] Reference

They are hatching some deep-laid deviltry, be sure!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cryptogram A Story of Northwest Canada] Reference

"This is a deep-laid plot," he went on calmly, still holding.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poisoned Pen] Reference

That she had fallen victim to some deep-laid plot was evident.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stretton Street Affair] Reference

As for his deep-laid plans they were all scattered to the winds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fighting the Flames] Reference

'Then it is a real scheme, deep-laid and serious,' said Wych Hazel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gold of Chickaree] Reference

"Now I'm going to dig myself," with a deep-laid purpose in her mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cricket at the Seashore] Reference

It must spring from laborious circumvention and deep-laid stratagems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker] Reference

He himself had had no very deep-laid scheme in his addresses to Colonel.    From Wordnik.com.  [He Knew He Was Right] Reference

Before long their brutal tyranny and deep-laid malevolence became apparent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers] Reference

Barry was, however, too tipsy to pay much attention to this, or to understand any deep-laid plans.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kellys and the O'Kellys] Reference

The little girl was obliged to resort to a deep-laid plot in order to do this work for the teacher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tillie, a Mennonite Maid; a Story of the Pennsylvania Dutch] Reference

The poor corregidor, however, had no doubt that it was a deep-laid scheme to plunder and insult him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula] Reference

River Andrew's action and the unprecedented display of his Sunday hat on a week-day were nothing but the outcome of a deep-laid scheme.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Hope] Reference