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1. Neither of us answered the other’s question, and after setting a later date to meet up and connive, we parted in the rain, which had begun to pour
2. When their approach is to cheat, lie, connive, plot, stab you in the back, deal creep, be two-faced; then you may have to adopt the same approach to survive
3. connive with them knowing full well that it is their child who is
4. together, they connive to destroy one another
5. " Why follow their foolishness (that is, connive at it) ? If I show her benevolence they'll abuse me more than ever
6. But, on the second head, can your law be executed? Does the history of the past in our own, or any other country, warrant such an expectation? Can you watch the extended line, of forty-five degrees north, for hundreds of miles, so as to prevent a transit for commercial exchange, indispensable to the necessities of the country? No, sir, it is a vain expectation; your army of 25,000 could not prevent the intercourse: their sympathies would rather lead them to connive at what they could not fail to see
7. Bartholomews, there to be deposited, and thence carried in neutral or British bottoms to Jamaica, the Bahamas, or wheresoever else they may be wanted? And again, if, notwithstanding the hostile attitude in which we stand in relation to each other England is compelled to encourage a trade by license, will not her necessities equally induce her to connive at exportation? Can it be doubted, that her armed vessels would not be instructed to allow our provisions to pass unmolested, when, by pursuing a contrary conduct, she would be starving her own colonies? And is it not clear that a traffic, which the war prevents from being direct, would continue to be carried on, as it is at present, through intermediate ports?
1. had been with regard to other parishes, and sometimes connived at such intrusions, receiving
2. Security also connived in this
3. As his manhood reached the threshold of her maidenhood, her womanhood connived with him to contrive its crossing
4. As the English elite killed each other, hated each other, raped and stole and connived and lied and did every underhanded trick ever invented, and invented some more evils that never existed
5. Look at the oldest Chinese symbols that represent the Pat5h of Dow-ism… the downward paths, these undead scum have secretly connived for us to follow
6. had not connived at her appearance
7. Into the details of the infamy at which I thus connived (for even now I can scarce grant that I committed it) I have no design of entering; I mean but to point out the warnings and the successive steps with which my chastisement approached
8. Come with us, Sola; we might go without you, but your fate would be terrible if they thought you had connived to aid us
9. " Will it not at once be inferred that these assertions throughout the United States had been true, and that this Government was implicated or concerned, or, to use the words of yesterday, that this Government had connived at such an expedition? You will but render the sufferings of these people more rigorous
10. The British Government has been suspected of having connived at this expedition as well as the Government of the United States
1. Tygo, all this is consistent with the tales of what they look like and their being conniving rascals who more than anything else like to play pranks on us humans
2. Cruzel was just evil and conniving, sly and political and didn't fit in
3. The arrival of Caroline’s car broke their pleasant pastimes, especially as she walked by the car with a conniving grin, waving a mini cassette victoriously above her head
4. She was a conniving little bitch
5. Deceiving his father had cost Jacob dearly in that he was forced to leave his home, he lost his beloved mother and had to start all over again, but in all his dealings thereafter, he was honest, and this brought him sons and great wealth at the expense of a conniving, cheating Laban
6. what's left over is this malicious, conniving, self-obsessed, and
7. done something as conniving as his manner suggested
8. It is history that some business entities were indeed conniving and dishonest, but with closer scrutiny those were usually subsidized by government and inescapably suffered consequences
9. It seemed as though an imposter slipped into Angela’s body the moment she crossed the door jamb into the main foyer – the alter ego of the vicious, conniving person June struggled with on a daily basis
10. ―Did Can Martin know about your meat dealings?‖ Skeets had a problem believing that the conniving rancher wasn‘t in on the entire operation
11. Estulin discusses the conniving greed of a group of people that have been around for centuries – I should correct that to type, since I don’t believe you will find anyone still living who was around when Christ threw the moneychangers out of the temple
12. Mr Jay then outlined a plan that would keep the job afloat, I came alive again and the red mist cleared, time enough later to settle with them two conniving bastards, Donavan and Crow
13. He does have a conniving mind
14. What a conniving, lying bastard! A worm turned in Jillian's stomach She drove to the Castle after her shift and spoke to the receptionist
15. Still, if we go with tradition, the Ferengi are most in line with the Book, back stabbing and conniving though they may be
16. The conniving young girl realized that
17. She had called him a conniving, manipulative, cruel man
18. ‘Suraya? As in your daughter Suraya?’ How could he want to send me off alone with that conniving woman?
19. And he was so mad at her conniving that he was determined to ruin her life after they broke up
20. She is such a conniving bitch!”
21. “You"re one real conniving son of a
22. stepmother’s conniving demeanor when he wasn’t even her kid
23. He’d been a conniving bastard all year, cocky as
24. Oak's attention was caught by the entrance of Rancor, his expression confident, cloying, and conniving
25. That cunning, conniving old bastard Rosen! He'd cut off the calls to the training group, even messages! Must send him a Thank-You card, the devious SOB, Lester smiled
26. A conniving hypocrite
27. Who knew conniving could be so much stress
28. It is a book that draws evil people to it: by promising them adventure: and instead giving them double-dealing, conniving, secrecy, cowardice, betrayal, plotting, secrets plans to kill other people, evil, hate, filth, and corruption
29. Their unsleeping evil of secret conniving and plotting and orchestrating never stops
30. Lori’s face took a conniving look of self pride, “Why honey, I made him into the beast he is today
31. “Until one of you conniving jackals mans up enough to kill me, I rule and what I say goes! You do not question my motives or actions!”
32. No call for help was sent out because you were underhanded and conniving!”
33. "That woman is a conniving wench who had wanted to force my hand in marriage
34. He had to be careful—extremely careful, for women were very complex creatures and could be tremendously conniving as well
35. He had hated that woman ever since he had found out how conniving she was but he would never have wished her dead
36. “Dick Tesser is the same conniving son of a bitch his father was,” Joan announced
37. “I don't see how he was conniving,” I said
38. To the objection that this is conniving at self-delusion by the investor, we may answer that on the whole he is likely to fare better by overlooking the price variations of high-grade bonds than by trying to take advantage of them and thus transforming himself into a trader
39. In the investment business in particular this is a critical teaching, simply because the investment area is full of Bernie Madoff-like characters who will steal you blind, as well as those of a less insidious, but just as insincere, phony, and conniving class of individual that can be found in any business
40. The Butcher already had his gun out, and it was pointed at the guy in his underwear, aimed at his balls, but then Sullivan moved it up to the heart, if the conniving bastard had one
41. The agent’s face soured, but before he could reply, Timmons roared, “That conniving bitch!”
42. The story of Eve, adapted from a Cosmopolitan short story, is well known—a ruthless, conniving ingénue, Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter), insinuates herself into the life and career of a legendary, aging Broadway star, Margo Channing (Bette Davis), wrecking the lives of all those she touches, as she claws her way to the very pinnacle of theatrical stardom
43. A ruthless, conniving ingénue insinuates her way into the inner circle of a legendary, aging Broadway star, leaving wrecked lives and shattered relationships in her wake, as she claws her way to the very pinnacle of theatrical stardom
44. This was exactly what Sir Thomas and Edmund had been separately conniving at, as each proved to the other by the sympathetic alacrity with which they both advised Mrs
45. Smith, not only with conniving at a conduct improper in itself, because it could only lead to rejection of the arrangement growing out of it, but insinuates that he was the principal actor in the scene