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It seemed that for months past the sultan had been intriguing with a foreign power against Great Britain.

From The Gay Adventure A Romance by Bird, Richard

During his absence from home the old Assyrian party, who disliked the emperor because of Babylonian sympathies, had been intriguing regarding the succession to the throne.

From Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Mackenzie, Donald Alexander

It was found that some of the petty kings of Lower Egypt had been intriguing with Taharka, and their cities were severely dealt with.

From Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Mackenzie, Donald Alexander

Learning that Generals Hooker, Newton, Franklin, Cochrane, and others had been intriguing against him and urging his dismissal, General Burnside promptly issued an order dismissing them from the service of the Union.

From Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Poore, Benjamin Perley

Too evidently the Cardinal had been intriguing, and not honourably, merely for his own purposes.

From The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII by Froude, J.A.