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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

"The heart knoweth its own bitterness, and a stranger doth not intermeddle with its joy;" but just for that reason it has no general content or independent authority of its own.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 by Various

But Voltaire wrote to Madame du Deffand: "I am aware that people reproach her with some bagatelles à propos of that husband of hers; however, one really cannot intermeddle in these family squabbles!"

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 by John Rudd

No one, however intimate, could really intermeddle with the workings of a genius drawing its happiest inspiration from the earliest experiences of its own individual past.

From Mathilde Blind by George Eliot

But just as little as he intermeddled with the convictions of others would he brook interference with his own.

From Australia Felix by Henry Handel Richardson

Nay, in those ages of the world, it was believed that spirits intermeddled in the affairs of mankind; and, throughout the Old Testament, I do not find any thing that in the least contradicts is.

From The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (1801) by Daniel Defoe

A Lutheran mob intermeddled and committed some excesses; in consequence of which the Jesuit Wolanski, in the name of his order, instituted a lawsuit against the Lutheran magistracy of the city.

From Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations by Therese Albertine Louise von Jacob Robinson

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 Edgar Lee Masters

So did the French always, when they intermeddled in the affairs of Germany: they came to aid a party there.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

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

He was fond of drawing pictures of young people giving free rein to their imaginations, unchecked by intermeddling adulthood, while they watched the glowing fire, or the ashes falling away from the dying coals.

From Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes

Writing under the name of "Cato" he spoke of "the foul pages of interested writers, and strangers intermeddling in our affairs."

From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett by Moncure Daniel Conway