schemer

All his life he had been a schemer, his eyes turned towards the big things, yet with himself always occupying the one glorified place in the centre of the arena.

You have been all your days a bold and unscrupulous schemer, but ends have at any rate been worthy ones.

'This is a longer-headed schemer than I thought him.

An ordinary schemer would have been content to work with a savage hound.

The greatest schemer of all time, the organizer of every deviltry, the controlling brain of the underworld, a brain which might have made or marred the destiny of nations--that's the man!

"Antinous, insolent and wicked schemer, they say you are the best speaker and counsellor of any man your own age in Ithaca, but you are nothing of the kind.

But Amelia had no fear about this; for the little schemer had actually sent away the page, Mr.

(Which went to the former purpose, by making Mr Meagles out to be an artful schemer.)

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

"Even the greatest of schemers have their wild moments," he remarked consolingly.

With this he comforted himself somewhat, though it made him uncomfortable to think that the author was a Moor, judging by the title of "Cide;" and that no truth was to be looked for from Moors, as they are all impostors, cheats, and schemers. He was afraid he might have dealt with his love affairs in some indecorous fashion, that might tend to the discredit and prejudice of the purity of his lady Dulcinea del Toboso; he would have had him set forth the fidelity and respect he had always observed towards her, spurning queens, empresses, and damsels of all sorts, and keeping in check the impetuosity of his natural impulses.

Praise is the most insidious of all methods of treachery known to the world; and this is nowhere better understood than in Paris, where intriguing schemers know how to stifle every kind of talent at its birth by heaping laurels on its cradle.