“Nor, unlike his enemies and discreditors, will he flatter or resort to political intrigue to achieve his ends.”

“She detected her husband in an intrigue with a mystery woman.”

“A continuum of emerging tracks online only adds to the intrigue surrounding the band.”

“As to her being a political intriguer, she was if anything rather apolitical.”

“A bitter intriguer in Ottawa who had led the campaign to have Selwyn deposed, he was a jack-of-all disciplines.”

“And remember, every palace intriguer may also be a double agent, ready to trade your opinions to get information in return.”

“She posed in turn as a saint, an intrigante, and a femme d'esprit, with marked success in every one of these roles.”

“But the little bit of goodness that cleaves even to the heart of an intrigante revolted against her avarice.”

“I pine for London, and I don't see why I should have been driven out of it by an intrigante.”

“Thus, though generally esteemed an able diplomatist, he had the cunning of the intriguant, and not the providence of a statesman.”

“In all these negotiations, and caballings, and intriguings, the person most concerned, Frances Coke, the beauty and the heiress, was only the ball in the game.”

“Many of the other figures involved in the operation were egregious intriguers and strivers, mediocrities for whom the CIA's money was a godsend.”

“With very few exceptions the patriots of this country are all timid adventurers led by ambitious intriguers, avid speculators who never dared to take up arms in our favour.”

“Beware of intriguers who may push you on from private motives of their own.”