Circumstances Conspired to make this easier than it would have been, had they been seated in a drawing-room, for example, with a tea-tray between them.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
Prevost met with, in a march of more than one hundred miles through the state; the conduct of the planters, in submitting, to save their property; and the well known weakness of the southern army; all Conspired to induce the enemy to believe, that Charleston, and South Carolina, would become an easy prey.
"A Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion"
William Dobein James
I made inquiry of Schunke, of the Baron, and of others who had, at the order of the All-Highest, Conspired to ruin poor Von Trautmann.
"The Secrets of Potsdam"
William Le Queux