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A single word from her lips, some well-concocted story, would bring on awful scandals.

From The Secrets of the Great City by McCabe, James Dabney

"This is a very well-concocted and well-told tale, my lord," said the first, with a sneer; "but I doubt whether it find many believers in the British service."

From Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" by Cooper, James Fenimore

Had the news disarranged some well-concocted plan of hers?

From For the Term of His Natural Life by Clarke, Marcus Andrew Hislop

I'd at least have foreseen the time when this compact, this Holy Alliance, should become impossible; when the developed intelligence of Europe would seek something else from their rulers than a well-concocted scheme of repression.

From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Lever, Charles James

Quite forgetting this trifle of treachery, the too-hasty plotter had sought the duke's stronghold with the hope of placating him with well-concocted lies and a smooth tongue.

From Historical Tales, Vol. 6 (of 15) The Romance of Reality. French. by Morris, Charles