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Auburn coach Gus Malzahn has schemed against and for Bobo teams in the past since Bobo spent years as Georgia’s offensive coordinator before moving to Colorado State.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 15, 2020

I would not go so far as to say that she has schemed a compensation for this cruel disaster ... which we need hardly be so gloomy about yet awhile, it seems to me.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend

Steven Maguire has schemed and schemed, But all his schemes will end in froth!

From The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him by Ford, Paul Leicester

He has schemed so successfully, papa, that he has everything his own way.

From Self-Raised Or, From the Depths by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte

He has schemed to get us into his net.

From Sophia A Romance by Weyman, Stanley John