Kitty was still the stalking-horse behind which, for whatever reasons, he Machinated.
"The Story of Louie"
Oliver Onions
Dorothy was tingling with excitement; but she took up a piece of sewing-the same piece on which she had bent her modest gaze when she had Machinated against her aunt on the afternoon on which Lady Tasker had come on, weary and thirsty, from The Witan.
"A Crooked Mile"
Oliver Onions
So he ascended the door step, and paid a visit-of curiosity, I must say-and looked on the snorting image of his old foe, and the bandaged head, spell-bound and dreamless, that had Machinated so much busy mischief against his own medical sovereignty and the rural administration of Nutter.
"The House by the Church-Yard"
J. Sheridan Le Fanu