counterplots

Updated: May 9, 2025

There had been plots and counterplots, and a recall of the last members of the Long Parliament, and an end of the Long Parliament, and risings of the Royalists that were made too soon; and most men being tired out, and there being no one to head the country now great Oliver was dead, it was readily agreed to welcome Charles Stuart.

Charles Dickens - A Child's History of England

But things had gone wrong and she told them a story of plots and counterplots, of strange men arrested at her very door with knives in their hands, of a bomb found in the palace, that held them breathless. Danbury fairly boiled over with excitement. "And you had me tied up while those things were going on? Trix I'll never forgive you. I might have been a regular story-book hero."

Frederick Orin Bartlett - The Web of the Golden Spider