He always claimed to have been a consistent Old Whig-that is, as he understood it, a High-Churchman who accepted the Revolution of 1688. This, to be sure, was not quite true, but it could not have been hard for a man who prided himself on a Cavalier grandfather, and whose first known verses were addressed to the non-juring primate Sancroft after his deprivation, to become first a Tory and then a Conniver at the restoration of the Stuarts as the best device for preventing a foreign succession and an endless chance of civil war.
"The Function Of The Poet And Other Essays"
James Russell Lowell
She's a heartless Conniver.
"The Galaxy Primes"
Edward Elmer Smith
I'm not a Conniver at loose conduct, and I won't endure it in my house.
"Plays A Protégée of the Mistress; Poverty Is No Crime; Sin and Sorrow Are Common to All; It's a Family Affair--We'll Settle It Ourselves"
Alexander Ostrovsky