He stood for publicity and wider discussion, distrusting a scheme to submit such vast interests to a small body sitting in the Capitol as likely to become the sport ofintrigue and fraud.
This man of mystery and intrigue was, I felt, there in Madrid with some malice aforethought.
Wherever money has the power to speak there Oswald De Gex would be found smiling an inscrutable mysterious smile, but always the centre of intrigue and adventure.
You have had no intrigue here, I hope," said the prince at last, "the husbands of Venice are dangerous.
Their policy was defined by the Mexico correspondent of the London Times as a compound of Spanish intrigue and Indian cunning, dominated--it might have been added--by provincial vanity and sensitiveness.
His part in the war was over; and in the following January, realizing that nothing could be gained through intrigue or conspiracy and fearing the Americans would make him a prisoner, he asked for permission to leave the country.
It makes intrigue a profession, creates many enemies while it creates few friends and renders confidence well-nigh impossible.
Santa Anna then chose Tehuacan for a place of residence instead of going nearer Guatemala, because he still had hopes of regaining power through intrigue or revolution.
Intrigue would eat its vitals away; the plottings of inner circles who could plan what they would and render account to no one would be a corruption seated at its very heart.
The action of the play therefore takes the form of an intrigue on the part of this representative to thwart the intrigue of Hero and Leander.
Such is the power of intrigue in the seraglio; two Greeks whom the Turks despised, there decided the fate of Turkey, in spite of the sultan himself.
Comic dramas have been divided into those of intrigue and character, and the Aulularia is chiefly of the latter description.
In like manner, the intrigue of the Aulularia has its commencement in the daughter of Euclio being violated during the celebration of the mysteries of Ceres, without being aware from whom she had received the injury.
Definite outlines frame themselves out of the swirling criss-cross of strife, intrigue and ambition.
The brigade generals intrigue against the division leaders, and even colonels are doing all they can to further their personal power.
As we have already heard, he had just been deprived of his high office by the intrigue of the Empress Eudoxia.
Pittheus clearly perceived what the oracle must mean, and persuaded or cheated Aegeus into an intrigue with Aethra.
If this contemporary belief was well founded, as it probably was, the overthrow of Somerset is proved to a great extent to have been an international intrigue promoted and probably well paid for by France.
These inquiries about the royal ladies’ fortunes became known to the Protector, possibly through Russell, and thus the wholeintrigue was brought to light.
In a regular monarchy the folly of the Prince gives the tone; in a downright tyranny, folly dares give itself no airs; it is in a wanton overgrown commonwealth that whim and debauchery intrigue best together.
Those who know the inner aspects of politics and society will, undoubtedly, be the first to recognise the skill and adroitness with which he strikes at the weak places in a world of intrigue and fashion.
He seems to have been incapable of intrigueand the supple arts of the court.
Factions sprang up like fungoid growths in an excavation, sordid ambitions were set in motion, and the royal Court became a hotbed of intriguetowards which the most flagitious elements in the capital were naturally drawn.
She not only seeks to drive him mad, but contrives by skilful intrigue to procure evidence of his insanity.
Many of the Arab officersintrigue against me, and seek to undermine my authority.
Owing to a discovered intrigue and the risk of having too much power in the hands of one man, I have sent Ibrahim Ruckdi to Malia as chief clerk, and Gugliz Bey of Malia is made my chief clerk.
It was a base intrigue which kindled the fire at the stake for the innocent.
They organized an intrigue against him, into which they drew one of the two Exilarchs.
Through bribery andintrigue they again effected his deposition, and he was banished.
Intrigue was never employed as the means of its gratification, nor was personal aggrandizement its object.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intrigue" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
