Deep Laid

What worried him was the wire-cutting; he could not but believe that it was an important part of the deep-laid labour conspiracy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Mr. Sulzer, a Democrat, called his trial “a farce, a political lynching, the consummation of a deep-laid political conspiracy to oust me from office.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

– Such is the foundation on which stands his pretensions to disinterestedness, which were only assumed to conceal the deep-laid projects of his ambition, and to deceive those whom he afterwards meant to enslave. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Unless he has some deep-laid scheme that I do not fathom, he isgiving up great advantages…. ❋ MICHAEL KNOX BERAN (2007)

Evangelista as they conversed with Paul, endeavoring to detect some clew to the deep-laid plot which was beginning to appear upon the surface. ❋ Unknown (2007)

‘Henceforth, for Pamela’s sake, whenever I see a lovely face, will I mistrust a deceitful heart; and whenever I hear of the greatest pretences to innocence, will I suspect some deep-laid mischief. ❋ Unknown (2006)

While none of us comes to such an enterprise without deep-laid assumptions about necessary logical relations and compatibilities, we should at least hold before ourselves the constant injunction to mistrust all our unexamined preconceptions on these matters when dealing with comparative thought. ❋ Riegel, Jeffrey (2006)

Look that warily then deep-laid in steady remembrance, ❋ Unknown (2006)

O how deep-laid are the mischiefs designed to fall on my devoted head! — ❋ Unknown (2006)

But what good angel prevented the execution of this deep-laid design? ❋ Unknown (2006)

As for Fathom, his sentiments took a different turn; and he scrupled not to impute all this kindness to some deep-laid interested scheme, the scope of which he could not at present comprehend. ❋ Unknown (2004)

On the contrary, the only object of most appeared to be the enjoyment of the passing hour, varied in a few cases and at intervals by deep-laid schemes to defeat their two great enemies, the public justice and their private prosecutors, as well as by cunningly devised projects of plunder to be put into execution when they should again recover their liberty. ❋ Unknown (2004)

He himself had had no very deep-laid scheme in his addresses to Colonel Osborne. ❋ Unknown (2004)