He has talent, but he is an intriguer and a knave. From Wordnik.com. [The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency]
The major intriguer behind the UN was Franklin Roosevelt. From Wordnik.com. [Stephen Schlesinger: Capturing the Birth of the UN on Film] Reference
He was a very cunning person, and a great political intriguer. From Wordnik.com. [The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency]
George III. very justly stigmatized as "that eternal intriguer.". From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875] Reference
Our old intriguer said that you were not — and you stopped him. From Wordnik.com. [Little Dorrit] Reference
How shall we interpret the oracle, you and I and the old intriguer?. From Wordnik.com. [Little Dorrit] Reference
It is impossible to assign a good motive to any act of this literary intriguer. From Wordnik.com. [A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners] Reference
Stein, a traitor expelled from his own country; Armfeldt, a rake and an intriguer. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
"The little intriguer!" murmured the churchwarden, nudging the elbow of his Maegera. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Such is the advice of Mr. Soloman Snivel, the paid intriguer of the venerable Judge. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
Dionysius himself is a magnificent intriguer, and was familiarly known to Philistus. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order] Reference
"I got Cap'n Abe's will filed away already -- if somethin 'should happen," said the old intriguer. From Wordnik.com. [Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper] Reference
They found too much of the drover and intriguer, too little of the traditional driver of the spoil. From Wordnik.com. [Rob Roy] Reference
He is a declared marriage-hater; a notorious intriguer; full of his inventions, and glorying in them. —. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
I've always been troubled by this theory, skeptical of anything that emanates from the shadowy intriguer Bell. From Wordnik.com. [It's Sweepstime For Hitler, But Winter for Truth] Reference
From the time that the notorious "Spanish marriages" had become facts, the Duke of Montpensier had been an intriguer. From Wordnik.com. [Spanish Life in Town and Country] Reference
He is a tricking intriguer, the slave of the Jesuits, and fancies he rules everything, while in fact he rules nothing. From Wordnik.com. [The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency]
And what is a great deal worse, it will keep me still in my ruined dungeons, a spy, an intriguer, an understrapper, when. From Wordnik.com. [Springhaven] Reference
Oswald's curious relationship with the veteran intriguer George De Mohrenschildt will always fascinate conspiracy buffs. From Wordnik.com. [The Loser's Loser] Reference
That was the base intriguer speaking again, the subtle villain — the man who had plotted Doughty's escape from justice. From Wordnik.com. [Hornblower And The Hotspur]
Because no matter how clearly we have spoken or have defined Cuba's position, there is always some intriguer talking about. From Wordnik.com. [CASTRO SPEECH TO WFDY, IUS YOUTH ON SOLIDARITY] Reference
It is not your fault, it is Ardea's, who has allowed that dabbler in spurious dividends to perform his part of intriguer. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The slanderer, the intriguer, notorious for the immorality of his tendencies, has entangled me in his snares and I am undone!. From Wordnik.com. [The Double] Reference
The other leaders hesitated: ambition and jealousy prompted them to refuse their aid in furthering the views of the intriguer. From Wordnik.com. [The Illustrated London Reading Book] Reference
It is the selfish intriguer who meets with least mercy in her pages, and who is there held up, not only to dislike, but to ridicule. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Women: George Sand] Reference
Hellfire, man, even if you weren't Lord Coercer and the craftiest intriguer in the whole kingdom-you're the boy who knows the torcs. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Torc]
This ecclesiastic was a busy intriguer, but not very adroit. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
Ambitious but trivial, enterprising but cowardly, an intriguer and. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
States and France; and Paul Buys was offended with him as a mischief-maker and an intriguer. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
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