690 examples of intruding in sentences

I said to myself that my past experiences had been a mistake, that this was where I ought to have come from the first, that life here would be happy, and that all intruding thoughts must soon vanish and die away.

Why, Nelly, it looks as though I'll have to kill this intruding fool!" She blanched at this, but did not appear to notice.

This will prevent other hens from intruding, a habit to which some are much addicted.

Every hour that my cousin has permitted the public to enjoy his property, adds to his right, as well as to the obligation conferred on that public, and increases the duty of the latter to cease intruding, whenever he desires it.

The monster was asleep, but presently The daring shouts of Rustem broke his rest, And brought him suddenly upon his feet, When seizing a huge mill-stone, forth he came, And thus accosted the intruding chief: "Art thou so tired of life, that reckless thus Thou dost invade the precincts of the Demons? Tell me thy name, that I may not destroy A nameless thing!"

" "Yes." "I owe you an apology for intruding upon your premises in this way, and beg you to forgive the seeming impertinence.

I have never seen so much as I might of their way of living; for I stand before his window with more reverent fear of intruding by a look than I should have at the door of a king's chamber.

As a great English statesman remarked in the last century, "No one has a higher regard for religion than I, but when it comes to intruding it into public affairs, well, really!"

I had no idea of intruding ourselves upon you when I asked you to look up rooms, but as you seem really to want us"("seem!"

Wouldn't any man who had interrupted a tête-á-tête another man was having with Miss Langdon be intruding?" "I suppose I can't deny that," he replied.

Pray forgive me, dear Lady John, for intruding thus on your time, and believe me, Very faithfully yours, SPENCER Lady John Russell to Lord Minto, PEMBROKE LODGE, April 24, 1854

I should regard my self as a second Clodius intruding on the Mysterious Rites of the Bona Dea, and should apprehend being Demolished as much as the Prude.

Startled, perhaps, by the intruding step, for it was no light one, a squirrel leaped from the bough to the grass, and, leaping, woke the sleeper.

He said to their leader, "Art thou the impertinent fellow who has been intruding upon my premises, in my absence?"

the young grain springs to happy birth; His warm breath lingers where the granite shields Intruding flowers, and the responsive Earth Impartially her varied harvest yields.

"If I should not be intruding," said Ashton-Kirk, "I should like to be present.

"Be as free with that as you please; what I object to is your intruding at every opportunity.

But it was because she thought me some bold, intruding stranger.

He was intruding into things he had not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind.

It had escaped the intruding foot of hunter and prospector; and the inquisitive patrol of the county surveyor had only skirted its boundary.

Satisfied that no intruding foot had invaded that virgin bower, she returned to her bath and began to undress.

"Listen," she said at last without looking up, but apparently talking to the intruding arm, "when Dad comes I'll get him to send you to watch the diamond pit.

Their retreat was undisturbed, nor could Low detect, by the least evidence to his acute perceptive faculties, that any intruding feet had since crossed the belt of shade.

It was like intruding on a bed of death, I felt, to break through ties of blood at such a time, by thrusting a foreign presence amid devoted relatives; and I was too proud, or perhaps too selfish, to intrude where I must be secondary, unless I took away another's rights.

Then, advancing into my chamber, she added, as coolly as though she had been suggesting a visit to the theatre: "Excuse me, Miss Monfort, for intruding, but I am about to ask you whether it would be agreeable to you to be married to-night at ten o'clock?

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