In Isaiah's time, when an Assyrian monarch is unable to come into Palestine, Babylon is generally the reason; and it is by intriguing with Babylon that a king of Judah attempts to keep Assyria away from his own neighbourhood.
He brought to the direction of the government the petulant will of a spoiled child, the mind of an intriguing and superstitious woman.
Many intriguing persons, some of them of the highest rank, will try to persuade you that this is so, and I cannot sufficiently warn you against such a delusion.
She was, however, an ambitious, restless and intriguing person, and I hope that her daughter does not resemble her in everything.
At Maintenon the Duc de Noailles has just been having a party of clever and intriguing people.
The intriguing wife of Stanley, mother of Henry Tudor, had the privilege of bearing the Queen's train.
Hastings was intriguing with his former adversaries, the Woodvilles, both at Westminster and in Yorkshire.
On August 1 the King was at Gloucester, and here the Duke of Buckingham took his leave and proceeded to his estates in Wales, accompanied by his intriguing prisoner Bishop Morton.
It is likely enough that the intriguing wife of Stanley did conspire with Buckingham in the hope of advancing her son's interests, and that she opened negotiations with the Queen Dowager.
The Comtesse d'Estrades, who owed everything to Madame de Pompadour, was incessantly intriguing against her.
Berrier added, "I think it my duty to tell Your Majesty that this lady passes for a very intriguing person.
In 1142 he was again intriguing with the empress; but before he could openly join her cause he was detected and deprived of his castles by the king.
The English of New York and the adjacent colonies were intriguing with the Iroquois and the Foxes, always jealous of French encroachments in the northwest, and encouraging them to harass the French settlers.
He is better under my eye than intriguing unobserved at the court of Savoy.
The most intriguing article is XV, which is not a declaration of a right as much as it is a reminder that citizens who do not exercise their rights soon lose them.
Are you intriguingwith my son too, behind my back?
The happiness of the Flemish infant of course went for nothing in the game of craft and ambition which was being played by the intriguing French king, who had no other object but the extension of his personal influence.
But, though learned and studious, she was intriguing and ambitious, and ready to go to any lengths to gratify her longing for power.
In 1708 she was forced to dismiss Harley, who, with the aid of Mrs Masham, had been intriguing against the government and projecting the creation of a third party.
In these later years, the men who make a trade of intriguingin elections have been enabled, by diligence and address, to obtain from the citizens of their tribes all that they chose to demand.
Pompeius Strabo, an able general, but an intriguing politician, who hoped to raise himself under favour of the disorder.
The Archduke, always noted for the violence of his temper, promptly sided with his wife, angrily accusing the Kaiser of intriguing behind his back against the independence of Austria.
Was it done by intriguing subalterns who, playing upon the aspirations of the Duke of Orleans, extracted millions from him under the pretext of making him lieutenant-general of the kingdom?
Political scheming was the governmental policy of the times, and he or she who could be the most wily and intriguing diplomate was looked upon as one who had achieved the greatest stroke of genius.
We cannot recount the details of the many trials heaped upon her by her weak and unworthy husband and his intriguing father, joined with Scottish noblemen, who desired her ruin because she was a Catholic.
Well before the 17th century, artists and engravers recognized them asintriguing shapes to include in any potpourri of instruments, either in cartouches or the frontispieces of books (fig.
The tool of needy adventurers andintriguing women?
This argument was all-sufficient with the ambitious and intriguing Bouillon, who forthwith began to slacken in his exertions to restore peace.
A fast, intriguing expose of organized crime in a large city, with its many ramifications and a plot that defies solution until the breath-taking climax, written by a newspaper reporter who knows his underworld.
But what I see is not simple, but complex and intriguing beyond expression.
He found the Abbot a man with a bland intriguing eye and centuries of pious leisure in his voice.
