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interloper
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  • The interloper-for that's all Alyss was to her, just a once-coddled brat playing at a sovereign's game-had some nerve.†   (source)
  • "Where's this interloper staying?"†   (source)
  • It's just that she loved you so much, I always felt like kind of an interloper with you guys.†   (source)
  • The interlopers included three of Bloom's Algerians, who had come to the railway, one explained, because "none of us had ever seen ice," a doubtful story given that the Algerians had just endured one of Chicago's coldest winters.†   (source)
  • Immediately we know what they think about the interloper.†   (source)
  • You really think he was just some interloper?†   (source)
  • Hmmm, if I destroy the evidence, maybe they'll forget all about this unfortunate episode, and I won't have to share my castle with an interloper after all.†   (source)
  • The man who'd been cut off by another man up tide might motor abreast of the interloper in order to shake a gaff at him and curse him up and down as a fish thief.†   (source)
  • He's sitting opposite, a newcomer, an interloper--a retired barrister with a square jaw, pitted nose, and great floppy ears.†   (source)
  • They were brainless things, and within the course of two or three minutes they had forgotten all about the barking interloper and were sleeping again, hung from their heels with their wings wrapped around their ratty little bodies like the shawls of old women.†   (source)
  • …that's Fred F French, she'd say, he's had a streak of bad luck, ha ha, and that was the end of that, Klara said to Miles—they were in bed playing cards in the loft, until three or four years later when the girls left a high school dance with two boys who weren't even in their high school, interlopers from the north, and the four of them slipped into somebody's parked car at the dark end of the street and they puffed a couple of cigarettes and talked and smooched and necked and petted.†   (source)
  • He swept the weapon back and forth as he walked, looking for any interlopers.†   (source)
  • An interloper with a false message.†   (source)
  • I no longer wanted the Captain to be a Nazi spy or an interloper.†   (source)
  • He tried to focus his nearsighted eyes on the interloper to confirm it was just his backpack.†   (source)
  • I mean, hey, I want to know, since when did I become the randy interloper?†   (source)
  • The pressure of her hands, their steadiness while she dealt with the interloper, were what he had dreamed of when he had thought that they would mix their hearts.†   (source)
  • Then each became strangely silent as the rude interloper passed; something under the canvas quieted their sudden bursts of fury.†   (source)
  • But they are interlopers-we never asked them to come here and turn our world upside-down, destroying ideals-yes, and nations-that generations of men have fought to protect.†   (source)
  • Feeling myself an interloper, I began to squeeze by, or through, their considerable mass, and excused myself with a murmur just as I heard Yetta say, "Well, well!†   (source)
  • The presence of these strange interlopers, it decided, deserved to be announced.†   (source)
  • I was an interloper, and would be considered so.†   (source)
  • And yet, it came to him that this living son, this headlong, living Royal, might be cursed for the sin of his mother, whose sin had never been truly repented; for that the living proof of her sin, he who knelt tonight, a very interloper among the saints, stood between her soul and God.†   (source)
  • We fight this quarrel out to the death, you and I and our foresters, with no cursed interlopers to come between us.   (source)
    interlopers = people who, without invitation, insert themselves
  • THE INTERLOPERS.   (source)
  • The rest were interlopers, short-timers.†   (source)
  • The subject of our meditation tonight is The Interloper.†   (source)
  • Oh, my little brothers and sisters, watch thou for The Interloper.†   (source)
  • He wanted only to kill the interlopers who had dared cut the lines.†   (source)
  • The Interloper who came to Eve as a snake on its belly, grinning and writhing.†   (source)
  • There was a . part of her that thought he might indeed be there illegally, that he was some interloper, and, in a sudden revelation, she realized he might be living in that strange underground lair.†   (source)
  • Soon the birds learned the lumbering yellow beast was no threat whatsoever, more a minor annoyance than anything else, and Marley learned to share the yard with these new, feathered interlopers.†   (source)
  • And as I've already intimated, they all seemed particularly surprised and pleased that I hadn't run over to their houses with wrapped presents and invitations and hopeful, clinging embraces; in fact, I must have given them the reassuring thought of how safe they actually were, how shielded, that an interloper might immediately recognize and so heed the rules of their houses.†   (source)
  • The prison service distrusted all organizations that could affect world opinion, and regarded them not as legitimate investigators to be dealt with honestly but as meddling interlopers to be hoodwinked if possible.†   (source)
  • DESTROY THE CHILD-KILLING INTERLOPER!†   (source)
  • The Interloper who walked among the Children of Israel while Moses was up on the Mount, who whispered to them to make a golden idol, a golden calf, and to worship it with foulness and fornication.†   (source)
  • Just as I know this Interloper, this Satan, this Lord of Flies and Serpents will be cast down and crushed… will you crush him if you see him, Jonson?†   (source)
  • He was, after all, the interloper.†   (source)
  • The… the Interloper.†   (source)
  • THE INTERLOPER!†   (source)
  • The Interloper!†   (source)
  • I fear The Interloper.†   (source)
  • The Interloper!†   (source)
  • THE INTERLOPER!†   (source)
  • The Interloper!†   (source)
  • The Interloper!†   (source)
  • There I was an interloper, wandering in rooms that did not know me, sitting at a desk and in a chair that were not mine.†   (source)
  • I felt happier when I had dismissed her from my thoughts, less of an interloper, and as we wandered about the rooms downstairs, and looked at the pictures, and Maxim put his arm around my shoulder, I began to feel more like the self I wanted to become, the self I had pictured in my dreams, who made Manderley her home.†   (source)
  • Yet did he betray anything but rage at this interloper?†   (source)
  • There was a new man at Blackstable, he had been settled there for ten years, but they still looked upon him as an interloper, and he was said to be very clever; but he had not much practice among the better people, because no one really knew anything about him.†   (source)
  • And could they really be guineas, those two glittering objects the interloper had held up to his eyes?†   (source)
  • They had sailed from Deptford, from Greenwich, from Erith—the adventurers and the settlers; kings' ships and the ships of men on 'Change; captains, admirals, the dark "interlopers" of the Eastern trade, and the commissioned "generals" of East India fleets.†   (source)
  • He paused long enough to allow that to sink in—give Clyde the feeling that he was an interloper indeed.†   (source)
  • But the incident confirmed to him certain tell—tale reports purveyed to his ear by Squeak, one of his more cunning Corporals, a grizzled little man, so nicknamed by the sailors on account of his squeaky voice, and sharp visage ferreting about the dark corners of the lower decks after interlopers, satirically suggesting to them the idea of a rat in a cellar.†   (source)
  • The soul is no traveler; the wise man stays at home, and when his necessities, his duties, on any occasion call him from his house, or into foreign lands, he is at home still; and shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance, that he goes the missionary of wisdom and virtue, and visits cities and men like a sovereign, and not like an interloper or a valet.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XXXIII Interlopers Now do those two gentlemen not very neat about the cuffs and buttons who attended the last coroner's inquest at the Sol's Arms reappear in the precincts with surprising swiftness (being, in fact, breathlessly fetched by the active and intelligent beadle), and institute perquisitions through the court, and dive into the Sol's parlour, and write with ravenous little pens on tissue-paper.†   (source)
  • Rosamond was more severely criticised and less pitied, though she too, as one of the good old Vincy family who had always been known in Middlemarch, was regarded as a victim to marriage with an interloper.†   (source)
  • Bat-like creatures, half brigands and lackeys; all the sorts of vespertillos that that twilight called war engenders; wearers of uniforms, who take no part in the fighting; pretended invalids; formidable limpers; interloping sutlers, trotting along in little carts, sometimes accompanied by their wives, and stealing things which they sell again; beggars offering themselves as guides to officers; soldiers' servants; marauders; armies on the march in days gone by,— we are not speaking of…†   (source)
  • Bred up from boyhood in the Custom-House, it was his proper field of activity; and the many intricacies of business, so harassing to the interloper, presented themselves before him with the regularity of a perfectly comprehended system.†   (source)
  • The fellow (gentleman, as he styled himself) can hardly have been other than a spurious interloper; for, instead of seeking office from the king or the royal governor, or urging his hereditary claim to Eastern lands, he bethought himself of no better avenue to wealth than by cutting a shop-door through the side of his ancestral residence.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Reed probably considered she had kept this promise; and so she had, I dare say, as well as her nature would permit her; but how could she really like an interloper not of her race, and unconnected with her, after her husband's death, by any tie?†   (source)
  • The lanterns having been lit, we all fell to work with a zeal worthy a more rational cause; and, as the glare fell upon our persons and implements, I could not help thinking how picturesque a group we composed, and how strange and suspicious our labors must have appeared to any interloper who, by chance, might have stumbled upon our whereabouts.†   (source)
  • "My dear children," pursued the black marble clergyman, with pathos, "this is a sad, a melancholy occasion; for it becomes my duty to warn you, that this girl, who might be one of God's own lambs, is a little castaway: not a member of the true flock, but evidently an interloper and an alien.†   (source)
  • But just look,
    these interlopers tell me to drive them in
    for their own private feasts.†   (source)
  • I am no interloper, and what business have they with me?†   (source)
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