intrigue

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It was the first time she met him, and she was intrigued by his easy confidence.

You intrigue me, Lale.  (source) Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, 2018

He had recently learned of an intriguing West German study that he suspected held the answer.  (source) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993

He is intrigued by us and the relationship we have.  (source) Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook, 1996

"It's gettin' on to four," he said, which was intriguing, as the courthouse clock must have struck the hour at least twice. I had not heard it or felt its vibrations.  (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

You know this planet's infested with Harkonnen intrigues.†  (source) Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965

A leader, a politician, an orator, a "boss," an intriguer, an idealist,—all these he is, and ever, too, the centre of a group of men, now twenty, now a thousand in number.†  (source) W. E. B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk, 1903

These come together and clash intriguingly in the image of the boy dying for love: youth, death, replenishment, desolation—they're all rattling around in the figure of poor Michael Furey in the rain.†  (source) Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, 2003

This style of writing seems a little gone out of vogue, and yet it is a very useful one; and your specimen of it may be particularly serviceable, as it will make a subject of comparison with the lives of various public cutthroats and intriguers, and with absurd monastic self-tormentors or vain literary triflers.†  (source) Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, 1791

"It can't possibly be that simple." Intrigue and doubt played in his voice.  (source) Kiera Cass, The Selection, 2012

(intrigued) Really? I don't remember.  (source) Athol Fugard, Master Harold...and the Boys, 1982

Besides, there was something intriguing about the young Diamond boy.  (source) Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars, 2006

...So you see, Anita, what intrigues me about this new concept of teaching English—Whole Language—is that it has its focus on literature, and in a way that I think young people will find very interesting.†  (source) AVI, Nothing but the Truth, 1991

I suspect there's some kind of intrigue between the two of them.

My sister could smell such intrigues a year away.  (source) Madeline Miller, Circe, 2018

I could not believe my own words, could not believe that I was so thickly enmeshed in intrigue.  (source) Betty Mahmoody, Not Without My Daughter, 1989

Prof and Mike shared childlike joy in intrigue for own sake.  (source) Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, 1966

They used to have intrigues among themselves, as always happens, and it would often come to blows and knives.  (source) Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, 1929

For your stories may surpass his in intrigue and dastardly deeds!  (source) Libba Bray, Sweet Far Thing, 2007

They had confessed to intelligence with the enemy (at that date, too, the enemy was Eurasia), embezzlement of public funds, the murder of various trusted Party members, intrigues against the leadership of Big Brother which had started long before the Revolution happened, and acts of sabotage causing the death of hundreds of thousands of people.  (source) George Orwell, 1984, 1949

Uncle Guy had died before the others disappeared during the invasion, in a car accident so commonplace that even Maggie and Jeb had struggled to make an intrigue out of it.  (source) Stephenie Meyer, The Host, 2008

But she knew nothing of Amahl, nothing of the secret intrigues in my life.  (source) Betty Mahmoody, Not Without My Daughter, 1989

He enjoys indulging in intrigue and playing people against one another.  (source) Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, 2009

Their luck would hold indefinitely, and they would carry on their intrigue, just like this, for the remainder of their natural lives.  (source) George Orwell, 1984, 1949

All that followed was the result of her imprudence; and he went off with her at last, because he could not help it, regretting Fanny even at the moment, but regretting her infinitely more when all the bustle of the intrigue was over, and a very few months had taught him, by the force of contrast, to place a yet higher value on the sweetness of her temper, the purity of her mind, and the excellence of her principles.  (source) Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814

Yale made me feel, for the first time in my life, that others viewed my life with intrigue.†  (source) J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy, 2016

Price's keen little eyes seemed to suspect him of an intrigue.  (source) W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage, 1915

She had to give him, for instance, to understand that if I ever came to know of his intrigue she would ruin him beyond repair.  (source) Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier, 1915

All the same it would be very satisfactory to have an intrigue, and he thrilled with the legitimate pride he would enjoy in his conquest.  (source) W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage, 1915

And the occasion of her boxing Maisie's ears, had, after it was over, riveted in her mind the idea that there was no intrigue between Edward and Mrs Maidan.  (source) Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier, 1915

At school there had been two or three girls of more boldness than modesty whom some of the boys knew; and desperate stories, due in all probability to the masculine imagination, were told of intrigues with them; but Philip had always concealed under a lofty contempt the terror with which they filled him.  (source) W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage, 1915

Suddenly panic seized her; for Professor Erlin with brutal frankness had suggested the possible consequences of an intrigue which was now manifest to everyone, and she saw her good name in Heidelberg and the repute of her house ruined by a scandal which could not possibly be hidden.  (source) W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage, 1915

Miss Price told him a long, involved story, which made out that Mrs. Otter, a humdrum and respectable little person, had scabrous intrigues.  (source) W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage, 1915

It made her, in the first place, hopeless—for she could not see how, after that, Edward could return to her—after a vulgar intrigue with a vulgar woman.  (source) Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier, 1915

She imagined that Edward was carrying on intrigues with other women—with two at once; with three.  (source) Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier, 1915

The young man had been engaged in an intrigue with a girl who played in touring companies, and his account of the affair filled Philip with envious amazement.  (source) W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage, 1915

She imagined him carrying on intrigues with native women or Eurasians.  (source) Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier, 1915

His affair with Mrs Basil, which was now all that she had to bring, in her heart, against him, she could not find it in her to call an intrigue.  (source) Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier, 1915

I had not figured it out that she could have played it so low down as to continue her intrigue with that fellow under my roof.  (source) Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier, 1915