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- noun Plural form of
embroglio .
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Examples
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But Cowper thought himself a diplomatist; was fond of authoritatively laying down the law on continental affairs, as though he had the refusal of the Foreign Office in his pocket; and felt he ought to have as much support as Palmerston obtained from the various Cabinets he burdened with European embroglios.
The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent S.M. Hussey
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(Applause) I do not refer to little embroglios which may come up here and there; I refer to, great cataclysms such as we passed through from 1914 to 1918.
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The most serious of these Cabinet embroglios occurred late in December of
The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln Browne, Francis F 1913
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But Cowper thought himself a diplomatist; was fond of authoritatively laying down the law on continental affairs, as though he had the refusal of the Foreign Office in his pocket; and felt he ought to have as much support as Palmerston obtained from the various Cabinets he burdened with European embroglios.
The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent Hussey, S M 1904
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It interested him enormously, and he threw himself into it, less as a magistrate eager to know the truth, than as an amateur of dramatic embroglios, tending wholly to mystery and intrigue, who dreads nothing so much as the explanatory final act.
Mystère de la chambre jaune. English Gaston Leroux 1897
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The most serious of these Cabinet embroglios occurred late in December of 1862, while
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Many years since, a curious paragraph appeared in one of the public journals, extracted apparently from an historical work, specifying the extraordinary political embroglios which the one-eyed duchess occasioned, eliciting from one of the statesmen of her times the complimentary declaration, that if she had had two eyes instead of only one, she would have set the universe on fire.
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