Citations:intricate


 * 1813 — Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
 * "That is as it happens. It does not follow that a deep, intricate character is more or less estimable than such a one as yours."


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * The house fronts looked black enough, and the windows blacker, contrasting with the smooth white sheet of snow upon the roofs, and with the dirtier snow upon the ground; which last deposit had been ploughed up in deep furrows by the heavy wheels of carts and waggons; furrows that crossed and re-crossed each other hundreds of times where the great streets branched off; and made intricate channels, hard to trace in the thick yellow mud and icy water.