intermeddle
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"I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker, in which no other, and far less the public, had a right to intermeddle."
From Time Magazine Archive
Is a statute less objection able which authorizes expenditure of Fed eral moneys to induce action in a field in which the United States has no power to intermeddle?
From Time Magazine Archive
She was bound, therefore, she regretted to say, not to intermeddle in the business.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 by Various
Do not intermeddle with state affairs;—that care is reserved for me, and those in whom I confide.
From Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels by Holbach, Paul Henry Thiry Baron d'
Interfere, in-tėr-fēr′, v.i. to come in collision: to intermeddle: to interpose: to act reciprocally—said of waves, rays of light, &c.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
While slavery did not in any way harm New England, she intermeddled in a mood of moral fanaticism.
From Children of the Market Place by Masters, Edgar Lee
Glory's hands were busy in the bread bowl, and her brain kneading its secret thoughts that no one knew or intermeddled with.
From Faith Gartney's Girlhood by Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)
I will drop a veil over her grief, which was too deep and sacred to be intermeddled with.
From Away in the Wilderness by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
But "no instance is remembered" in which one sect has intermeddled with another—O no!
From Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors by Brownlow, William Gannaway
He intermeddled not with the civil institutions of the day.
From A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery by Woodward, A.
Such an arrangement would provide protection for the universities and athletes from intermeddling by third parties, particularly boosters and agents.
From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2014
Protesting in her behalf, Wolvovitz's co-counsel Jon Pushinsky found himself held in contempt and handed a 30-day suspended sentence for "officious intermeddling."
From Time Magazine Archive
Sometimes the Doctrine is shrunk to mean little more than that the U. S. will attempt to discourage European intermeddling in Latin America.
From Time Magazine Archive
“This,” he said, “was to purchase trouble with ready money, to kick at snarling dogs, and an intermeddling in profane things that lowered the dignity of the sacred ministry.”
From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Manzoni, Alessandro
There in then no officious intermeddling of the law in his domestic affairs.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
