Dynastic political clans rotated in power, weaving Byzantine intrigues as the economy went to the dogs.
For all its efforts to weave an intrigue plot into a timeline of big events, "Palace Council" is most comfortable with Eddie's immediate circle.
All of this points out the need for more taxonomic and natural history studies of the largest of our world's spiders, disentangling a web of intrigue woven over their long and rich evolutionary history.
Some of the more whacked-out theorists with an anti-Semitic bent even claim that the terror attack was part of a decades-old web of intrigue woven by international Jewish groups to dominate global politics.
The novel, titled "The Prague Cemetery," is the story of a secret agent who "weaves plots, conspiracies, intrigues and attacks, and helps determine the historical and political fate of the Continent," his publisher said.
There are various other plot strands of courtly intrigue, treachery and even murder weaving through the book and driving things along, although there are moments when things happen a little too coincidentally and conveniently to be credible.
Weaving history, anecdotes, stories of campaigns and intrigue with description of temples, palaces, broad avenues, of regal circumstance.
Many marketers, for example, have become intrigued by the possibilities of weaving their products into the fabric of social networking sites.
Author Susan H. Munger spins a celebratory, bicentennial, botanical tale, weaving entries from Lewis' voluminous journals with historical sleuthing that will intrigue botanists, gardeners and historians alike.
Greg Isles skilfully weaves a web of intrigue that leads Cat back into her own family's tragic history, and before you can say "tooth fairy" she is fighting her own demons, a determined killer who really wants her dead and, perhaps most terrifying of all, a dangerous wall of silence from people who know the truth but refuse to speak.
The destinies of fictional early scientist Daniel Waterhouse, "King of the Vagabonds" Jack Shaftoe, and former-harem-girl-turned-economics-wizard Eliza improbably (yet inevitably) weave together through court intrigue, Le Roi himself and the founding of the Royal Society, but even that doesn't begin to cover Quicksilver's joyous sprawl.
