Intrigues
[in'tri:ɡz]
Examples
- Your intrigues then are so frequent, that you forget with whom they occur it should seem? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Her intrigues with Russia for the furtherance of her object, excited the jealousy of the Porte, and the animosity of the Greek government. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- And so this devil is still going on with her intrigues, thought William. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- In the midst of these intrigues and fine parties and wise and brilliant personages Rawdon felt himself more and more isolated every day. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- We have our intrigues and our parties. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Permit me, Madame Clennam who suppresses, to present Monsieur Flintwinch who intrigues. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- We will not trouble ourselves here with the names and follies, the crimes and intrigues, of its tale of emperors. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The feverish state of affairs in the Balkans was largely the outcome of the intrigues and propagandas sustained by the German and Slav schemes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Ruth