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  • "Or she." Interposed Hermione.  (source)
    Interposed = inserted (a comment)
  • The shell was interesting and pretty and a worthy plaything; but the vivid phantoms of his day-dream still interposed between him and Piggy, who in this context was an irrelevance.  (source)
    interposed = came (were between)
  • He must interpose another human being, the body of another human being, between himself and the rats.  (source)
    interpose = insert
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  • The judge interposed. He spoke with the authority that a lifetime in the courts had given him. He said...  (source)
    interposed = inserted (into the conversation)
  • Immediately, her mother and sister were there to interpose a blander timetable.†  (source)
    interpose = insert between other elements; or to interrupt or stop action by others
  • One of them steps forward slightly, interposing himself between Y.T. and the nearest protochick.†  (source)
  • Where were their voices when the lips of Governor Barnett dripped with words of interposition and nullification?  (source)
    interposition = insertion
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • Then she tentatively puts out her left foot and hand, ANNIE interposes her own hand, and at the contact HELEN jerks hers in.†  (source)
  • Since I have your good leave to go away, I will make haste; but, till I come again, No bed shall e'er be guilty of my stay, Nor rest be interposer 'twixt us twain.†  (source)
  • She spake, and at her words the hellish Pest Forbore: then these to her Satan returned:— "So strange thy outcry, and thy words so strange Thou interposest, that my sudden hand, Prevented, spares to tell thee yet by deeds What it intends, till first I know of thee What thing thou art, thus double-formed, and why, In this infernal vale first met, thou call'st Me father, and that phantasm call'st my son.†  (source)
    interposest = insert between other elements; or to interrupt or stop action by others
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-st" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou interposest" in older English, today we say "You interpose."
  • He concluded with declaring to Mr Allworthy, that he should have long since informed him of this matter, had not Mr Blifil, by the most earnest interpositions, prevented him.†  (source)
  • "No, you don't," interposed Tom quickly.  (source)
    interposed = inserted (into the conversation)
  • We put Invincible to seaward of their surface groups as though she's heading home and interpose her on October's course.†  (source)
    interpose = insert between other elements; or to interrupt or stop action by others
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