Was the politicalintriguer rather a suspected than a confidential servant of all his masters and mistresses?
The little singing-bird that never was fledged, was long kept in a cage by a guardian of your appointing, well enough known to our old intriguer here.
Shall we coax our old intriguer to tell us when he saw him last?
Our oldintriguer said that you were not--and you stopped him.
A meddler and intriguer during the Fronde, sceptical and bitter in his Maximes, the Duke of La Rochefoucauld was amiable and kindly in his private life.
The character and conduct of the insidious and unscrupulousintriguer were forgotten in his promises.
The old intriguer had only time to throw himself into Marseilles, where he strangled himself, when the city was hard pressed by Constantine, A.
I could not help laughing, and I said, "Mademoiselle de Launay is an intriguer and one of the persons by whom the whole affair was conducted.
They make him the sanguinary dictator in one sentence, and the humiliated intriguer in the next.
In course of time the transformation from the intriguer to the buffoon became complete.
The character of Iniquity, though fully identified with the buffoon of the later plays, is nevertheless closely connected in the author’s mind with the intriguer of the old moralities.
Jonson’s moral purpose is here plainly visible, especially in contrast to Plautus, with whom the youthful intriguer is also the stock figure.
These characters have traits more nearly resembling those of the fool and clown than those of the intriguer of the moralities.
The wily intriguer was for once caught in his own springe.
Dignified by a captaincy of dragoons, the young intriguer at last thought himself on the high road to success, and his whole course was marked by a zealous determination to deserve by his actions the confidence reposed in him.
Lacking money and patronage, known only as an able officer and facile intriguer of the bankrupt Jacobinical party, he might well have despaired.
I observed that the man whom he called an intriguer was only reviving an invention already known, and that it was wrong to reject the scheme without examination.
The latter was a notable intriguer and mischief-maker, ever breeding bad blood; and his termper was rather violent than sullen.
It must be, then, that from his hiding place that intriguer was inciting a spirit of truculence in the Carrs to which the Gregories were automatically responding.
He had been selected by the intriguer as the man to take in hand and carry to success the assassination of Boone Wellver.
The face of theintriguer remained steadfast save that the unblinking eyes became a little pained.
It has given the mere machine man, the intriguer and wire-puller, far greater power than it is right that he should possess, seeing that as a rule his power is not accompanied by a corresponding degree of responsibility.
A stopgap is, of course, always popular with the intriguer who knows that he himself has not yet arrived.
Paisiello seems to have been an intriguer all his life, and to have been constantly in dread of rivals; though he probably had less reason to fear them than any other composer of the period.
But during the present embroiled state of Europe, an intriguer was more necessary there than either a warrior or a politician.
A fool rather than a rogue, and an intriguerwhile he thinks himself a negotiator, he was happy to have this occasion to prove his penetrating genius and astonishing information.
It argued no ordinary confidence on the part of the intriguerto speak in such a fashion of the Autocrat of All the Russias.
Mme de Chevreuse, the great intriguer and seductress of the French politics of the age.
To call him an intriguer would be unjust, because the word, if it does not imply the pursuit of some mean or selfish object, does generally connote a resort to unworthy arts; and the Cardinal was neither dishonourable nor selfish.
The Inglez of Sulaco, the "Costaguana Englishman" of the third generation, was as far from being a political intriguer as his uncle from a revolutionary swashbuckler.
From the painting by Paul Hippolyte Delaroche] Meantime that intriguerhad been making for himself a tortuous approach to royalty.
The intriguer came forward promptly, and, receiving the Caulaincourt despatches, together with a verbal explanation from the Emperor, was quickly in readiness for the duty of counselor, to which he was called.
Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury, the politician andintriguer of the period.
There was still, it is true, the influence of Charles of Navarre; but that desperate intriguer had compromised himself so much with both parties that no confidence could be placed in him.
The Captal was taken prisoner, and the establishment of Du Guesclin in some of Charles of Navarre's Norman fiefs deprived the intriguer of his opportunities to do mischief in the north.
