| I did not wish to be a killjoy and a marplot, or I would have forbidden Fred to touch a foot-ball after he entered college. |
| Did Ralston know that he had been considered a sort of marplot? |
| I'm sorry to be such a marplot, but you can take it out in quizzing me after I'm gone. |
| Holding fast to these beliefs, Cimarron Bill rode forth full of an unconscious willingness to play the marplot. |
| Our only marplot has been laid by the heels at the very nick of time. |
| Laura had stayed at home to finish a comic sketch of a village episode for the Monthly marplot. |
