machinators

The admirable common-sense which guided all the actions of these great machinators made each side feel the necessity of a momentary alliance against a common enemy.

Eug�nie Grandet 2007

The machinators forget one thing: the last time the Liberal Party held an open audition for the role of leader, Jim Bennett was the only person who showed up.

Archive 2006-04-01 Ed Hollett 2006

Apparently the machinators behind the scenes had no desire to have to live again under the dictatorship of a machine.

Mystery of the Anti Scheer, Karl 1976

He conjectures, 'Peradventure 'tis one of the great designs, as 'tis certainly the interest, of those wicked agents and machinators industriously to hide from us their influences and ways of acting, and to work as near as 'tis possible _incognito_; upon which supposal it is easy to conceive

The Superstitions of Witchcraft Howard Williams

Meantime, a horde of unscrupulous machinators would have been installed in the seats of power at Washington, and would have recommenced operations, in the consciousness of the new strength acquired in the field from which they had just retired, with all the chicanery and craft with which heretofore they had blinded the North and secretly controlled the destinies of our Government.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864 Various

Before long the two machinators abandoned the rigour of the bare studio for a snug corner of a café.

Cabbages and Kings 1904

Before long the two machinators abandoned the rigour of the bare studio for a snug corner of a café.

Cabbages and Kings O. Henry 1886

"People very different from the landlord," said the man in black, "both in intellect and station, think we shall surely win; there are clever machinators among us who have no doubt of our success."

Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 George Henry Borrow 1842

'Old Fraser of Lovat, 'said I,' the prince of all conspirators and machinators; he made sure of placing the Pretender on the throne of these realms.

The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' George Henry Borrow 1842

'People very different from the landlord,' said the man in black, 'both in intellect and station, think we shall surely win; there are clever machinators among us who have no doubt of our success.'

The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' George Henry Borrow 1842