machination

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• For a whole minute I stood there motionless apart from the trembling of my legs, straining to the utmost what little the gunshots had left me of my hearing. —  The Satan Bug
• Since the brothers began this fight, my kingdom has been overrun with their skirmishes; its waters and mines are used up, and my people are taken from their beds to stand and be killed in front of the next, grand, horrible machination. —  Song of Time
• If there was ever a hotbed of machination and deception, it is a sherry-reception given by a Noted Professor. —  red dust
• That the marshal and the Highest were involved in some sort of machination was all too clear, but Dainyl had yet to figure out why and for what purpose, because neither would have hazarded their positions for anything trivial, and it made no sense for either to scheme to become Duarch, because the Duarch had to be loyalty-imprinted, and neither the marshal nor the Highest would want to lose that much personal freedom. —  Alector's Choice
• "Evil/utukku/, evil/ âlû/, evil/ êdimmu/, evil/ gallu/, evil god, evil/ rabisu/,/ labartu/,/ labasu/,/ âhhazu/,/ lilu/,/ lilithu/, handmaid of/ lilu/, sorcery, enchantment, magic, disaster, machination which is not good -- may they not set their head to his head, their hand to his hand, their foot to his foot -- may they not draw near. —  The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria

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