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It makes him the easy victim of a plot which would otherwise only have ensnared its concoctor.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various

Indeed, it was with uncommon celerity, that his previous reputation of being the best maker of rum punch in the serjeants 'mess, had changed into his present one of being the first concoctor of sangaree at the officers'.

A Love Story A Bushman

Sed et filius ille concoctor, et publicanus ille in Evangelio, cum

The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

Sed et filius ille concoctor, et publicanus ille in Evangelio, cum Pharisaeo collatus, praeeunt nobis formulis adcommodatissimis peccata nostra Deo confitendi.

The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

No more would the genial atmosphere of that barroom respond to the heavings of his broad chest, no more would the dignified concoctor of rare and villainous drinks pass him the whisky-straight.

Romance of California Life John Habberton 1881

"I must not praise Gerald too much," said Captain Tracy, after he had accepted the invitation; "my mate, Owen Massey, was the chief concoctor of the plot, and had I not a high opinion of his judgment and courage, I should not have ventured to give my consent to it."

The Missing Ship The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

I need scarcely add that we stopped and chatted together, and finally parted as if we had been acquaintances of ten years 'standing; for your bleak mountain's brow, like your cabin of an Edinburgh steam-ship, is an admirable concoctor of mushroom intimacies.

Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, Visited in 1837. Vol. II 1842

Flemings fell on the field, together with their leader, Van Artevelde, the concoctor of this rebellion, whose corpse, discovered with great trouble amongst a heap of slain, was, by order of Charles VI., hung upon

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 1830

"This thing," I exclaimed, "is a contemptible falsehooda poor hoaxthe lees of the invention of some pitiable penny-a-linerof some wretched concoctor of accidents in Cocaigne.

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"This thing," I exclaimed, "is a contemptible falsehood -- a poor hoax -- the lees of the invention of some pitiable penny-a-liner -- of some wretched concoctor of accidents in Cocaigne.

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 Edgar Allan Poe 1829