What is "intrigues"

Usage examples of "intrigues".

I spent almost all my mornings with him, and it was from this prelate that I learnt all the intrigues and complots by which the ancient Polish constitution, of which the bishop was a great admirer, had been overturned.

Petersburg and Arrive at Warsaw--The Princes Adam Czartoryski and Sulkowski--The King of Poland--Theatrical Intrigues --Byanicki I thought of leaving Russia at the beginning of the autumn, but I was told by M M.

This man was, as I had surmised, connected with him in certain political intrigues, the exact nature of which she did not know.

Besides, in the private and more concealed intrigues with which I was engaged with St.

The next two years passed, on my part, in perpetual intrigues of diplomacy, combined with an unceasing though secret endeavour to penetrate the mystery which hung over the events of that dreadful night.

It was easy to see that in the mind of that subtle and crafty ecclesiastic, with whose manoeuvres private intrigues were always blended with public, this offer of employment veiled a desire to banish me from the immediate vicinity of the good-natured Regent, whose favour the aspiring Abbe wished at that exact moment exclusively to monopolize.

She defames you behind your back, steals from you, intrigues against you.

And so the wars and intrigues of long ago reduced our family to poverty.