preconcertedness

Updated: May 27, 2025

And then, as though with preconcerted design, though she had heard no word spoken, the group divided, splitting asunder with a precision that deepened the conviction of preconcertedness, ranging themselves on each side of the open space, leaving it gaping barrenly, unobstructed a stretch of windrowed alkali dust, deep, light and feathery. Silence, like a stroke, fell over the town.

Charles Alden Seltzer - 'Firebrand' Trevison