cunningly-laid

Updated: May 8, 2025

Here, as you walked along a path which led through a thicket, you fell into a cunningly-laid ambush, and became a target for a body of musketeers, whose tattooed limbs you could just see peeping into view through the foliage. There, you were assailed by the intrepid garrison of a house, who levelled their bamboo rifles at you from between the upright canes which composed its sides.

Herman Melville - Typee

With that baby he would come to a fuller love of her than ever before; its advent would surely give him what even she admitted he lacked. She lay now, picturing it to herself and planning a cunningly-laid deceit by which she should appear a lovely and noble figure in his eyes.

F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse - Secret Bread