2 uses
- We have our intrigues and our parties.Book 2 — Old and Young (51% in)
- He went to study in Paris with the determination that when he provincial home again he would settle in some provincial town as a general practitioner, and resist the irrational severance between medical and surgical knowledge in the interest of his own scientific pursuits, as well as of the general advance: he would keep away from the range of London intrigues, jealousies, and social truckling, and win celebrity, however slowly, as Jenner had done, by the independent value of his work.Book 2 — Old and Young (22% in)
There are no more uses of "intrigue" in Middlemarch.
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