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
This Letter the General would have Captain Swan have opened, but he thought it might come from some of the East-India Merchants whose Affairs he would not intermeddle with, and therefore did not open it.
Peter was prone to intermeddle with matters beyond his sphere, and to manage other people’s affairs for them.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II by Marcus Dods
You understand, my dear sir, that nothing would have tempted me to intermeddle in this affair, were the case precisely what you have supposed.
From Jessamine A Novel by Marion Harland
Even when, within his own stronghold, our author intermeddled with theological topics, it was seldom with felicity or credit to himself.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by
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
Thus, the man who intermeddled irregularly with the moveables of a person deceased, was subjected to all the debts of the deceased, without limitation.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Samuel Johnson
Nor do they ever name any of those great personages who have intermeddled in civil affairs, but only to scoff at them and abolish their glory.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
He intermeddled not with the civil institutions of the day.
From A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery by A. Woodward
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
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
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
We have protested from the commencement, and during our whole progress, and we do now protest, that we have never entertained the purpose of intermeddling with the private property of individuals.
From Thoughts on African Colonization by William Lloyd Garrison
Such intermeddling as this taxed the patience of the courting community to its extreme limit, and it assumed a rebellious front.
From British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes
