Athos, fearing lest he should be suspected of
connivance with some of his compatriots, remained outside the tent.
It was the kind of masculine solidarity that he himself often practised; now he sickened at their
connivance. Did she really imagine that he and she could live like this?
"And the dear girl makes me this generous offer from under the same John Jarndyce's roof, and with the same John Jarndyce's gracious consent and
connivance, I dare say, as a new means of buying me off."
I think that it was with the
connivance of one or more of the men at the gate.
Through the
connivance of the police and the authorities, it was given out to the world as heart disease.
I know not what other word they may have understood it by since, but he was one who by
connivance was admitted to go abroad every evening, when he played his pranks, and furnished those honest people they call thief-catchers with business to find out the next day, and restore for a reward what they had stolen the evening before.
Still, if her father really has left her, without any
connivance on her part - Bounderby, let me have a word with you.'
When the jealous and niggardly policy of their British sovereign denied them even that humblest of requests, and instead of liberty would barely consent to promise
connivance, neither he nor they might be aware that they were laying the foundations of a power, and that he was sowing the seeds of a spirit, which, in less than two hundred years, would stagger the throne of his descendants, and shake his united kingdoms to the centre.
With the
connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the girl's short sight, he appears as Mr.
I do not believe either in the guilt or in the
connivance of my concierges, though I cannot understand what they were doing in the park at that late hour of the night.
Rubelle's
connivance and interest in the conspiracy, and we are therefore not certain that the date has been impressed on her mind, as it has been assuredly impressed on the minds of Sir Percival and the Count.
John Douglas himself could be, and the balance of probability was that with the
connivance of his wife and his friend he was concealed in a house which had such conveniences for a fugitive, and awaiting quieter times when he could make his final escape."
GUJRANWALA -- A woman, with the
connivance of her lover, hanged her husband till death in Aroop police precincts here.
A former patwari, Muhammad Ramzan, and ex-tehsildar (Chishtian) Ajmal Saifullah were also booked for
connivance in the illegal land occupation.
NAB says that Saad, in
connivance with his wife Ghazala Butt, brother Salman, Qaiser Amin Butt and Nadeem Zia, started a housing project named 'Air Avenue', which was later renamed 'Paragon City Limited'.
