collusion
Definition: A secret agreement for a wrongful purpose
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Philip Winwood - By Robert Neilson Stephens
...If the honor of the execution is to be mine, and the men 's whom I shall lead, the honor of the design, and of securing the necessary collusion in the rebel camp, is Mrs. Winwood 's ....
The Widow Barnaby - By Frances Milton Trollope
...In this manner Egerton was kept in a state of great uncertainty respecting the fact of collusion, or no collusion, between the parties upon whom accident had thus made him a spy, and for a longer space than it is usual for a loiterer to remain in any one place ....
The Flying U's Last Stand - By B. M. Bower, Little, Brown and Company, C.H. Simonds Company
..." Well, who 's acting in collusion ?...
David Elginbrod - By George MacDonald
...But, aware that all this was open to the most palpable objection of collusion, the operator next invited any of the company that pleased, to submit themselves to his influences ....
The Hindered Hand - By Sutton Elbert Griggs
...Often in cases of that nature the crime charged is disproved, by proving another offense involving collusion ....
Crowds - By Gerald Stanley Lee
...\/ \/ in any given case the producers by collusion and combination can be efficient in lowering wages to employees and raising prices and cheating the public, this same combination or collusion would be efficient in raising the wages of employees, lowering prices and serving the public ....
War and Peace - By Leo Tolstoy
...His excellency Prince Andrew gave me orders to see you all off the place that there may be no collusion with the enemy ....
Pilgrim's Progress - By John Bunyan, Izaak Walton, Frank Cheyne Pape
...When the King had said this, Dr. Donne kneeled down and thanked his Majesty, and protested his answer was faithful, and free from all collusion, and therefore, `` desired that he might not rise till, as in like cases, he always had from God, so he might have from his Majesty, some assurance that he stood clear and fair in his opinion . "...
History of Prose Fiction - By John Colin Dunlop, Henry Wilson
...The lover afterwards accounts for their having been found in the house, by accusing the husband 's slave -LRB- with whom he was in collusion -RRB-, in presence of his master, of having stolen them from him at the public bath ....
The Grandissimes - By George Washington Cable, Albert Herter
...And did the intruder get in by magic, by outside lock-picking, or by inside collusion ?...
Gabriel Tolliver - By Joel Chandler Harris, McClure, Phillips & Co
...The collusion of the courts with this high-handed robbery was so ill-concealed that Raleigh Clopton soon discovered the fact, and his indignation rose to such a white heat that it drove him to excesses ....
Queen Lucia - By Edward Frederic Benson
...And these delightful anticipations concentrated themselves into one rose-coloured point of joy, when no less than two independent observers, without collusion, saw the piano-tuner either entering or leaving The Hurst, while a third an ear-witness unmistakably heard the tuning of the piano actually going on ....