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But in practical fact, his hold on the Ethiopian throne has been due less to ancestry than to his ability to outplot Ethiopia's best plotters.

From Time Magazine Archive

In spite of all his precautions, however, love has many arts and wiles which defy all opposition, and which can outplot the deepest of plotters.

From The Firm of Girdlestone by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir