If I had learned her secret before the marriage was legal, all her devious schemes would have come to nothing.

Knowing Esther, she would have executed the whole devious scheme with the utmost care.

"You've been involved, with some pretty devious schemes yourself."

Why did I fail to expose his devious scheme?

Colonel Sabri, however, with his devious schemes, was not to be trusted.

"The Cyadorans know you wouldn't consider such a devious scheme."

Or it could be some devious scheme of the Brotherhood.

I'm beginning to wonder if he doesn't want to use Michael for some devious scheme of his own.

Or was his world so truly filled with devious schemes and silent struggles for power?