Intrigues in example sentence
A man whose father crawled up from nothing by intrigues and whose mother has had relations with heaven knows whom...No, pardon me, I consider myself and people like me aristocrats: people who can point back to three or four honourable generations of their family, all with a high standard of education (talent and intelligence are a different matter), who have never cringed before anyone, never depended on anyone, but have lived as my father and my grandfather did.