Can you any longer wonder that she should join with me in Compassing the Death of her Father, when I had convinced her that our Happiness could no otherwise be accomplished?
"Trial-of-Mary-Blandy"
Roughead, William
Those who called him a disguised friend of Napoleon little knew the depth of his hatred for the Emperor, a hatred which was even then Compassing the earth for means of overthrowing him, and saw in the person of a lonely French exile beyond the Atlantic an instrument of vengeance.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose
Whether his ill-luck at the house had followed him to this place he could not tell, but, for some reason or other, there was not one of the gentlemen for whom he inquired but had some excuse for not seeing him; and, worn out at last with repeated disappointments, if not oppressed by the doubtful looks he received from the various subordinates who carried his messages, he left the building, and proceeded to make use of the only means now left him of Compassing his end.
"Hand and Ring"
Anna Katharine Green