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Example sentences for "intrigued"

Lexicographically close words:
intricacies; intricacy; intricate; intricately; intrigue; intriguer; intriguers; intrigues; intriguing; intrinsic
  1. He would not do anything to give countenance to the suspicion that he had intrigued against his commander's interest.

  2. I wish you would add also that I would not like to take the command of an army where I should be exposed to the imputation of having intrigued or of having exercised any effort to supplant my previous commander.

  3. According to Membre, La Salle's enemies had intrigued successfully among the former, as well as among the Iroquois, to induce them to take arms against the Illinois.

  4. Already at Fort St. Louis, Duhaut had intrigued among the men; and the mild admonition of Joutel had not, it seems, sufficed to divert him from his sinister purposes.

  5. Both Rupert and Wenzel at first endeavored to break up this new league, and then, failing in the attempt, both intrigued for its support.

  6. For nearly two years he intrigued with the States of Northern Germany and the Poles, collected a large army under the pretext of conquering Hungary, and suddenly declared war against Rudolf.

  7. It was with this view that he shielded Lord Huntly and the Catholic nobles while he intrigued with the Guises abroad.

  8. It is not certain that Walid also suspected Khalid al-Qasri of having intrigued against him.

  9. You were not only accused of being an agent of the Bourbons, but of having intrigued to become a member of the Legislature, or the Tribunate, that you might have so much the better opportunity to serve them.

  10. Always envious of this general, Jourdan did everything to retard his progress, and at last intrigued so well that the army of the Sambre and the Meuse was separated from that of the North.

  11. The manner of Trafford's escape from the thing that intrigued him has been severely criticised.

  12. But only in the scenes with the curate, when the narrator is stirred to passionate anger, and in his later passages with the sapper, do we catch any glimpses of the novelist intrigued with the intimate affairs of humanity.

  13. Meeting soon afterwards another man with a bundle of weapons on his shoulder, the intrigued Huguenot gentleman asked him bluntly what he carried and whither he went.

  14. Now Barter, intrigued by this whispering and laughing, of which he deemed himself the object, questioned Dunne upon it as they rode forth again together.

  15. It was when he bethought him of that age of his that he was chiefly intrigued by the amazing ardour of this great lady of Bearn.

  16. She laboured for the extinction of his pernicious brilliance, and intrigued for his recall.

  17. And I know that he has intrigued with a former agent of the bureau of Foreign Affairs.

  18. In the summer of 1803 the political atmosphere was in a tempestuous condition, owing to the widespread accusation that Aaron Burr had intrigued with the Federalists against Jefferson to gain the presidency.

  19. Rigby intrigued very much that the headmaster of Eton should adopt his discourse as a class-book.

  20. He had succeeded, in 1694, in inducing them to meet him in general council at Quebec, and had framed the conditions of a truce; but the English at Albany intrigued to prevent the fulfilment, and war was again imminent.

  21. Afterward, it is said, she intrigued to have her husband sent out of the country.

  22. This was achieved by the skill of Bohemond, who intrigued with Phirous, one of the leaders of the garrison, for the surrender of the city, upon favorable terms to himself.

  23. His first warfare was with the turbulent and disaffected Welshmen, who had profited by the intestine turmoil of the preceding reign, and intrigued perpetually with the rebellious nobles of Henry III.

  24. The novelty of the enterprise intrigued many business men, while others took space because they were friends of Mr. Malone or Mr. Parker.

  25. The novelty of her plan both amused and intrigued him.

  26. The more he saw of this unconventional countess the more she intrigued his interest.

  27. Nothing could have more deeply intrigued the attention of these men than the sight of a modest, quiet, well-behaved young woman exhibiting all the technic of a finished faro-dealer.

  28. A schoolteacher named Johnson, who hailed from Michigan and who must have been quite a remarkable man for his day, was greatly intrigued by the ruins.

  29. When white settlers first moved into the Animas Valley, they were intrigued by the great stone ruins.

  30. Intrigued by the paradox of the crow, I plowed through The Teachings of Don Juan and through Castaneda's A Separate Reality and Journey To Ixtlan.

  31. Unaware that he was borrowing Hindu and Buddhist doctrine, and intrigued but not convinced that in a future life I would attain enlightenment, I kept one eye on Atmananda and the other on Anne.

  32. This, I take it, is why oldish men are so often intrigued by girls in their teens.

  33. And he was sufficiently accustomed to sheep-like and unseeing visitors, to be intrigued by one who did not hesitate to say of Mauve: "Good old haystacks!

  34. And once more he felt the malaise of one who contemplates himself as seen by another--like a dog who chances on his refection in a mirror and is intrigued and anxious at the unseizable thing.

  35. The Jacobins everywhere set up a cry against the new crusade; and they intrigued with effect in the cabinet, in the field, and in every private society in Europe.

  36. He intrigued therefore busily with both parties, and promised liberty of worship to Vane and the Independents at the moment when he was negotiating with the Parliament and with the Scots.

  37. Shaftesbury intrigued busily in the City, corresponded with William of Orange, and pressed for a war with France which Charles could only avert by an appeal to Lewis, a subsidy from whom enabled him to prorogue the Parliament.

  38. He forced the clergy to pay long-neglected feudal dues, and intrigued against the great houses of Anjou and Orleans in Italy.

  39. Loudoun intrigued with the French ambassador and with Thomas Savile, afterwards earl of Sussex, but without much success.

  40. Nothing happened to him, nor even to his brother, who intrigued later against Cromwell's life.

  41. They intrigued secretly among themselves, and fought openly, against it.

  42. Turbulent priests and the yet more violent canons,[75] the great body of monks and nuns, wished, and intrigued for the restoration of the rule of the Bishop and of the House of Savoy.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intrigued" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.