schemer

• “Tennyson was also known as a schemer and operator.”

  Freedom in our Lifetime - Part Three

• “Then to be called a schemer before the class and to be pandied when he always got the card for first or second and was the leader of the Yorkists!”

  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

• “Her reward for playing the "sexism card" was relentless grilling by some members of the all-male Judiciary Committee and being characterized as a schemer, a vixen, a liar and a tramp.”

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• “Joker said he's not a "schemer" where as the Riddler is nothing but.”

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• “He knew I had figured the odds-but it didn't make any difference, because that is the kind of schemer Xanth needs in a King, and he knew it.”

  A Spell For Chameleon

• “On the other hand I have known it to happen that a prisoner went and complained to the doctor, who roughly told him he was a "schemer," and the following week the prisoner was dead.”

  Six Years in the Prisons of England

• “This "schemer," I learned, had been a great sufferer from pleurisy at”

  Six Years in the Prisons of England

• “About the time the above conversation took place another "schemer" arrived, and was located a few beds from me.”

  Six Years in the Prisons of England

• “This man was what the prisoners term a "schemer," and he was certainly the very best actor of his class I ever met with.”

  Six Years in the Prisons of England

• “Other than Scott Parker, there isn't a player we wouldn't sell if it was the right bid," says co-owner David Sullivan, who has slapped in a £4m bid for West Bromwich "schemer" Graham Dorrans.”

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