It was useless waiting for an opportunity, and useless trying toconcoct a speech for the occasion.

He more than intimated that it was at his option toconcoct a liquid that should prolong life for years, perhaps interminably; but that it would produce a discord in Nature which all the world, and chiefly the quaffer of the immortal nostrum, would find cause to curse.

Dames of elevated rank, likewise, whose doors she entered in the way of her occupation, were accustomed to distil drops of bitterness into her heart; sometimes through that alchemy of quiet malice, by which women canconcoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles; and sometimes, also, by a coarser expression, that fell upon the sufferer's defenceless breast like a rough blow upon an ulcerated wound.

"So it is," said Cardenio; "and so uncommon and unexampled, that were one to attempt to invent andconcoct it in fiction, I doubt if there be any wit keen enough to imagine it."

He therefore held his peace on that head, but otherwise was quite frank and confidential with him, so that the two quicklyconcocted a little plan for both circumventing and satirizing the Captain, without his at all dreaming of distrusting their sincerity.

Passepartout wandered for several hours in the midst of this motley crowd, looking in at the windows of the rich and curious shops, the jewellery establishments glittering with quaint Japanese ornaments, the restaurants decked with streamers and banners, the tea-houses, where the odorous beverage was being drunk with saki, a liquorconcocted from the fermentation of rice, and the comfortable smoking-houses, where they were puffing, not opium, which is almost unknown in Japan, but a very fine, stringy tobacco.

Upon that, agitated anew by their attachment to him, yet honourably disposed to her, Marian uncorked the penny ink-bottle they shared, and a few lines wereconcocted between the two girls.

Just when you haveconcocted an absurdly implausible tale about a man outside, the door opens, and a tall, severe-looking woman enters, carrying what at first sight appears to be a particularly skinny bolster, with the feathers all at one end.

Well, when the seven years were up, your relations and mine too, Ernestine,concocted what I have always considered an ill-begotten and a miserably selfish plot.

Then, when Biedenbach and the other comrades awoke, with their aid Iconcocted a little conspiracy.