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intermeddle

[in-ter-med-l] / ˌɪn tərˈmɛd l /






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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

"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

The Mediator did not intermeddle with the affairs of the governments of this world; for his kingdom was not of this world.

From War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ by David Low Dodge

Have I not a right to intermeddle, being a squire, who has learned the rules of good manners in the school of your worship?

From The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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 nowadays, and in England especially, if women intermeddled in such things, do you know what they would be called?

From Sunrise by William Black

They intermeddled xv ceaselessly, embroiled everything, and as a consequence they obstructed success in the field almost as much as if they had been another Confederate army.

From Abraham Lincoln, Volume I by John T. (John Torrey) Morse

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 Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 by George Birkbeck Norman Hill

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 A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney

By this time Pizarro had established some communication with the gun-rooms and between decks, and discovered that the English prisoners had not intermeddled in the mutiny, which was confined to the Indians.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 by Frederick Whymper

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

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




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