All 5 Uses of
interpose
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- "Father's so old that 'a can't mind his age, can ye, father?" interposed Jacob.†
Chpt 7-9 *
- "A strange old piece, ye say!" interposed the maltster, in a querulous voice.†
Chpt 22-24
- "Let en alone," interposed Joseph Poorgrass.†
Chpt 31-33
- Gabriel hoped that the whole truth of the matter might not be published till at any rate the girl had been in her grave for a few days, when the interposing barriers of earth and time, and a sense that the events had been somewhat shut into oblivion, would deaden the sting that revelation and invidious remark would have for Bathsheba just now.†
Chpt 40-42
- Oak imagined a terrible discovery resulting from this afternoon's work that might cast over Bathsheba's life a shade which the interposition of many lapsing years might but indifferently lighten, and which nothing at all might altogether remove.†
Chpt 40-42
Definition:
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(interpose) to insert between other elements; or to interrupt or stop action by others