Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
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The discovery of geometry had intoxicated them, and its a priori deductive method appeared capable of universal application.
From Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
At first, love had intoxicated her; and she had thought of nothing beyond.
From Madame Bovary by Eleanor Marx Aveling
Louis appealed now, in his distress, to the national honor, sent his plate to the mint, and resolved, in his turn, to contend, to the last extremity, with his enemies, whom success had intoxicated.
From A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by John Lord
The magic draught which had intoxicated him then now seemed but an insidious poison.
From The Child of Pleasure by Georgina Harding
He looked at the long, sliding handwriting, so graceful and fine, he caught the perfume which had intoxicated Rudyard Byng, and, stooping down, he sniffed the dispatch-box.
From The Judgment House by Gilbert Parker
