preconcerted

Tell me, was this all a preconcerted plan?

Meanwhile I reflected that the preconcerted hour had arrived.

Then our young men, according to a preconcerted plan, wheeled round from file to line, dismounted and stood at attention.

He turned away and beckoned, a preconcerted signal.

I imagine it was a preconcerted arrangement with neighbouring tribes, got specially up for our entertainment.

He's apt to drop in, with preconcerted unexpectedness."

As she spoke she jerked slightly at the rope, which was our preconcerted signal that I was to lift.

Husband and wife, according to a preconcerted plan, thereupon murdered their guest and buried his body under the flagstones in the kitchen.

Anne, remembering the preconcerted visits, at all hours, of Mr Elliot, would have expected him, but for his known engagement seven miles off.

Further, the flags or other signals were supposed preconcerted and unknown to the enemy, being formed by variations of shape and colour.

These arrangements made, foremen and workmen waited the preconcerted moment with an impatience mingled with a certain amount of emotion.

Toward the end of the meal he gave a preconcerted signal by calling out, "Bring the fruit," upon which his emissaries rushed in and killed the two guests.

The hull deliberately recovering from the periodic roll to leeward was just regaining an even keel, when the last signal, a preconcerted dumb one, was given.

As soon as the curfew had tolled, a preconcerted signal was made from the shore, and Roland contrived to substitute his forged keys for the real ones.

The great cannonade had stopped in an instant, as if by a preconcerted signal, and their nerves, attuned so long to such a continuous roar, seemed to collapse, because some support was withdrawn.

One other circumstance is worthy of remark; and that is, that from the moment of their first outbreak at Westminster, every symptom of order or preconcerted arrangement among them vanished.

He said that if I assented to this arrangement, he would require all of his people except the objectionable man to run to the right of his line at a preconcerted signal.

Daniel too was given garments, some he might wear and some he wouldn't, socks, scarf, tie, all of them not black, as though the company had made a preconcerted attempt to cheer him up.

Thence the battle circled back over Niagara, and then suddenly the Germans, as if at a preconcerted signal, broke and dispersed, going east, west, north, and south, in open and confused flight.

However, it pursued a line of reasoning to the effect that proof of instigation of murder in a community of purpose without evidence of rebuttal raises an "inference of preconcerted arrangement".

The Court of Appeal seemed to take a narrower approach to "principal in the second degree" than the Court, but it is unclear, because "preconcerted arrangement" admits of different shades of meaning.

And, as if by a preconcerted plan, a whole body of the mob broke at once through the lane, and swept like a torrent over Orsini and his jostled and ill-assorted train.

According to a preconcerted scheme (which you may find on that piece of paper), he says the stupid things he has arranged for himself, and his client says the clever things arranged for him.

The men must have been in hiding on his own craft, they must have been, as Koku had cried out-- stowaways--and have come out at a preconcerted signal to overpower the aviators.

The Court of Appeal seemed determined to forestall any argument based on the mere method or timing of the murder being unagreed to, if there was other plausible evidence of a preconcerted object of murder.