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unwelcome intrusion — possibly a physical attack into another's territory or involvement in personal matters- BB's incursion was brilliant, but he couldn't outright Core omega phages.Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
- *x The American government does not indeed rob them of their lands, but it allows perpetual incursions to be made on them.Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 1
- Most of the flowers were plastic, a vivid example of a twentieth-century incursion of Yamacraw.Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
- You remember, the 'Days of Rage' thing after the Cambodian incursion and that awful screw-up with the national guard.Tom Clancy -- The Hunt for Red October
- As I was saying, the vision you had shortly before Christmas represented such a powerful incursion upon the Dark Lord's thoughts —'J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- She also insisted on transporting the bottle, upon which, it is important to add, I committed no incursions, sticking, as always, to beer.William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
- Oh, there were little alarms: a Shade here, an incursion by Urgals there, a skirmish between two dwarf clans over a mine no one but they cared about.Christopher Paolini -- Inheritance
- He believes that if the slaves are found to be contraband Africans, it will be all the British need to begin an incursion in Cuba.Alexs Pate -- Amistad
- Wounds during our incursion into Angola and the fact that they figured I was older than my papers said.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
- No feudal baron in Magna Charta times could have more thoroughly resented some incursion of the crown.Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- We haven't been invited, and the Fair Folk don't like incursions into their territory—"Cassandra Clare -- City of Heavenly Fire
- The symbol of the spear was chosen because with this simple weapon Africans had resisted the incursions of whites for centuries.Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
- You've probably heard about the incursion today.Rick Riordan -- The Son of Neptune
- This was his first incursion into management circles.Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
- Save for this annual incursion, they left literature alone.E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
- Perhaps food had appeared where at the last incursion there had been none; bird droppings, insects perhaps, any of the strewn detritus of landward life.William Golding -- Lord of the Flies
- She had a spider's sense for a male footstep, an incursion into her territory.Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
- He had all the theoretical knowledge required to make an incursion into the brain, but he did not by any means consider himself a brain surgeon.Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
- Then the boy reckoned expenses: renting the canoe, renting the canoe paddle, renting fishing equipment so that no one would suspect the truth behind their incursions.Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Love in the Time of Cholera
- Ryan had kept up with the radio coverage of his incursion into the country station, and he'd taken hope in the fact that anyone who turned on a radio in Texas now knew of his challenge.Ted Dekker -- BoneMan's Daughters