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intervene as in:  intervened in the war

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  • They are opposed to Russian intervention in their country.
    intervention = involvement
  • Why did the U.S. not intervene earlier in WW II?
    intervene = get involved
  • I said I didn't want Shawn in prison but that some type of intervention was needed.   (source)
    intervention = active involvement to bring about change
  • If he'd intervened, it might have changed everything.   (source)
    intervened = gotten involved (to help)
  • Greasy Sae had intervened and sent us with our deer to the butcher, but not before it'd been badly damaged, hunks of meat taken, the hide riddled with holes.   (source)
  • We used the Pakistani rupee, but the government of Pakistan could only intervene on foreign policy.   (source)
    intervene = get involved
  • It might have turned ugly had General Taheri not intervened.   (source)
    intervened = gotten involved (to change an outcome)
  • So Jim asked me to monitor the contest, and to intervene if it ever became necessary.   (source)
    intervene = get involved to influence an outcome
  • But this epiphany occurred only after the intervention of time and misfortune, when my fathers self-satisfied existence had begun to crumble beneath him.   (source)
    intervention = involvement
  • They were initially slated for execution, but after a Japanese officer's intervention, most were crowded into the holds of ships and sent to Japan and occupied China as some of the first Americans to become POWs under the Japanese.   (source)
    intervention = active involvement to bring about change
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  • But in any case, Henry, you will recall that the original purpose behind pointing my company in this direction in the first place—was to have freedom from government intervention, anywhere in the world.   (source)
    intervention = involvement
  • Without intervention, the colony will die.   (source)
    intervention = active involvement to bring about change
  • We need your force to intervene.   (source)
    intervene = get involved to influence an outcome
  • The Count began to object, but Anna intervened.   (source)
    intervened = interrupted
  • So I didn't miss the irony of lying to a therapist (to protect Mom) lest I ignite another intervention by the county children's services.   (source)
    intervention = involvement
  • I'd admit that I didn't know that much about fashion, but Marlee and I both agreed that someone should have intervened on her behalf.   (source)
    intervened = gotten involved (to help)
  • — Pucey throws to Warrington, Warrington to Montague, Montague back to Pucey —Johnson intervenes,   (source)
    intervenes = gets involved to influence an outcome
  • And now the rains had really come, so heavy and persistent that even the village rain-maker no longer claimed to be able to intervene.   (source)
    intervene = get involved to bring about change
  • But though she sometimes longed to rise up and intervene, especially if she thought Briony was in need of her, the fear of pain kept her in place.   (source)
    intervene = get involved to influence an outcome
  • Sometimes I saw the wounded—those who had been beaten by husbands or raped by strangers, children raped by their fathers—and I would wish to intervene somehow.   (source)
  • "Have some more," she insists, until Father intervenes and upholds my right to refuse a dish I don't like.   (source)
    intervenes = gets involved (to help)
  • They could see each other every day, without having to worry about the interventions of Minnie's landlady, who watched them as if she were Minnie's own mother.   (source)
    interventions = acts of getting involved to influence an outcome
  • "There was a vote today, and everyone but me was in favor of a confrontation about your level of serious commitment to the school and the squad."
    ... A cheerleading intervention. Just what I needed.   (source)
    intervention = unwelcome involvement
  • I wish my dad was here to intervene. But he went directly to his study to check his e-mails right after coming home. I wish he'd act as a referee instead of sitting on the sidelines.   (source)
    intervene = get involved
  • The words of these songs were composed without any human intervention whatever on an instrument known as a versificator.   (source)
    intervention = involvement
  • I hastily intervene and give him a cigarette.   (source)
    intervene = get involved (to assist in a difficult situation)
  • I took up my place behind a yew tree, and I saw his dark figure move until the intervening headstones and trees hid it from my sight.   (source)
    intervening = getting between (a person and something viewed)
  • Cabbages grew in plain sight; and a pumpkin-vine, rooted at some distance, had run across the intervening space, and deposited one of its gigantic products directly beneath the hall window, as if to warn the Governor that this great lump of vegetable gold was as rich an ornament as New England earth would offer him.   (source)
    intervening = between
  • But I discovered no trace of him and was beginning to conjecture that some fortunate chance had intervened to prevent the execution of his menaces when suddenly I heard a shrill and dreadful scream.   (source)
    intervened = interfered (to prevent something from happening)
  • For one hopeful moment, Roy thought the driver had seen what was happening and was pulling off the road to intervene.†   (source)
  • I tried to intervene — these threats were too harsh, he didn't understand about Laura and the way she took things literally — but he told me to keep out of it.†   (source)
  • Perhaps because of her medical training, or perhaps because she couldn't face the prospect of having to explain to my parents that she had killed their child, Parvine eventually decided to intervene.†   (source)
  • To his relief, she was too shy to intervene.†   (source)
  • You would have failed me completely had I not intervened.†   (source)
  • My mother made the decision to intervene— and decided that overdoing it was better than doing nothing at all She felt my environment needed to change and my options needed to expand.†   (source)
  • Because he had not previously had a lawyer who would see him or speak to him, Mr. Dill saw our intervention as something of a miracle.†   (source)
  • Legally, the U.S. Embassy could intervene and extradite guilty citizens back to the United States, where they received nothing more than a slap on the wrist.†   (source)
  • I believe that you were to have been killed as well, and that you were not was due to chance, and the intervention of the Owenses.†   (source)
  • There was a good deal of talk, for example, about the divine intervention allegedly visited upon George Mercer III.†   (source)
  • "But," Alvin Hooks intervened, placing himself between Kabuo and the jurors, "as you've just said yourself, Mr. Miyamoto, you had in fact—what did you say?†   (source)
  • Joey didn't say anything else, so Coach Walski intervened.†   (source)
  • Easily corrected by biogenic intervention.†   (source)
  • The fact is, I was already exhausted with the effort of it all, already hopeless, already recalling those months just after my mother died as if nothing had intervened between that time and this, and what I remembered was the labor of it all, a labor as impossible as standing in your boots and lifting yourself into the air by the bootstraps.†   (source)
  • Josie may not have initiated the teasing that Peter suffered over his middle and high school years, but she didn't intervene either, and in Lacy's book, that had made her equally responsible.†   (source)
  • I think I'm in need of an intervention.†   (source)
  • Eyes watched from nearby windows and doors, but no one was about to intervene.†   (source)
  • They're too young to be good at it, and Security officers are quick to intervene.†   (source)
  • Also involved are neighbors who hear the screams but do not react, teachers who see the bruises and must deal with a child too distracted to learn, and relatives who want to intervene but do not want to risk relationships.†   (source)
  • "You know, Dr. Davis, your life must be guided by divine intervention," she said.†   (source)
  • During supper everything went very smoothly, thanks to the graceful intervention Chencha provided while serving.†   (source)
  • Butler always intervened before punches landed.†   (source)
  • When we teased her too much, Father intervened and reprimanded us.†   (source)
  • "Of course," said Hobie quickly, before Aunt Margaret could intervene — turning expertly away to evade her annoyed expression.†   (source)
  • They intervened on behalf of their kids.†   (source)
  • He is spared only by the intervention of a migrant MS from his old neighborhood back home.†   (source)
  • Now, for much the same reasons I'd not been able to talk openly to Ruth about what I'd done to her over the Sales Register business, she of course wasn't able to thank me for the way I'd intervened with Midge.†   (source)
  • She was off the pill three months, and nothing happened, and not long after the move to Missouri, she made an appointment for us to start the medical intervention.†   (source)
  • The trader started to reply when his thin companion intervened with a wave of his hand.†   (source)
  • But before the child could put a hand out to touch, Farid quickly intervened, picked Gwin up, and put the marten back on his shoulders.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Baez now could intervene and try to work out the problems among the Chicanos before the school staff got involved.†   (source)
  • One can almost hear a unified sigh rise from the nearby city and surrounding countryside where Nature has intervened to give respite to the weary humans slogging it out within her purview.†   (source)
  • This way they could stay longer, as military intervention would be delayed.†   (source)
  • Except for a string of stubborn ear infections that required Dr. Jay's repeated intervention, he was healthy.†   (source)
  • Regina did not like to see us quarrelling at such a moment and intervened, saying calmly, 'Oh, do stop it!†   (source)
  • Bloody Juan got a bloody nose when he tried to intervene.†   (source)
  • Like a mother bird teaching her young to fly, Mrs. Sheridan encourages Laura to go so far on her own until it becomes clear that her inexperience requires intervention.†   (source)
  • He pivots, grunts and pushes, and by divine intervention, the cart squeezes into the room.†   (source)
  • Thank God (and sometimes Samuel's intervention) this has not happened since we've been here.†   (source)
  • I could tell from the increasing tension of her facial muscles that without intervention she would soon have a headache.†   (source)
  • It was also Lena who invited Anima, knowing full well nothing short of divine intervention could get Amma to set foot through the door of Ravenwood Manor.†   (source)
  • Talk about divine intervention-meeting the right people at the right time.†   (source)
  • "It is the line soldier who ultimately pays for any foreign intervention," the sharp-faced woman said grimly.†   (source)
  • It seemed the more empty a space in the city the more it attracted squatters, with unoccupied mansions in the borough of Kensington and Chelsea particularly hard-hit, their absentee owners often discovering the bad news too late to intervene, and similarly the great expanses of Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens, filling up with tents and rough shelters, such that it was now said that between Westminster and Hammersmith legal residents were in a minority, and native-born ones vanishingly few, with local newspapers referring to the area as the worst of the black holes in the fabric of the nation.†   (source)
  • Or maybe that guardian angel that had saved me back in Ramadi decided to intervene.†   (source)
  • Mortals could not just sit idly by and wait for the gods to intervene while catastrophes such as drought or plague loomed.†   (source)
  • But Santiago, who was watching with his hands behind his back, intervened.†   (source)
  • They will intervene soon, very soon, unless we can find some way to calm the situation.†   (source)
  • Now it was Sean's turn to intervene.†   (source)
  • The captain had wavered, wanting to grant the request, but the political officer had intervened, pointing out that their orders were both urgent and explicit: they had to be on station as quickly as possible; to do otherwise would be "politically unsound."†   (source)
  • He told me that he had favorably reviewed my situation, and that Vice President Bush had intervened on my behalf with regard to my parents.†   (source)
  • Still, despite the evidence, the law would not intervene, and the death of the Socialist was quickly forgotten.†   (source)
  • To avenge the military intervention, Milosevic's army unleashed a wave of destruction and brutality on some sixty towns and cities in Kosovo.†   (source)
  • In the book, Pelzer goes through his childhood with no support or help whatsoever—his alcoholic father doesn't do anything to intervene—until finally a teacher notices and begins the process of having him taken out of his mother's custody.†   (source)
  • Neither the mediation of her son nor the intervention of her friends could break Fermina Daza's resolve.†   (source)
  • The men saw her response, stopped their joking, and straightened up, ready to intervene against this odd stranger.†   (source)
  • A kind of Heisenberg indeterminacy intervened: the expenditure of energy that revealed what he saw, changed what he saw.†   (source)
  • Certainly I'm for birth control before abortion, but I'll tell you one thing, Brittain, if God kept as close an eye on us as you say he does, and if he felt the need to intervene in daily human problems, he'd put on his steel-toed holy boots and come down here and kick your butt for making him look like a mean-spirited, unforgiving ayatollah.†   (source)
  • Other crises also intervened, having to do with Art, the girls, or the house, as did vacation.†   (source)
  • It was too late to intervene, and he couldn't think of a damn thing to contribute anyway.†   (source)
  • The crackle of the intercom system intervened before I could come up with anything.†   (source)
  • Within his persistence, Caroline thought, watching from the last seat, deciding again every second not to intervene, was some deep desire to find a person who would really see him.†   (source)
  • A simple intervention of Mother Nature, and they were saved, washed out to freedom and a new life Biblical-style?†   (source)
  • Multi-faceted billionaire Howard Hughes suffered from stop-action blink syndrome, a bizarre condition which prevented his eyes from reopening for hours after a simple blink, and he obviously hoped to utilize the amazing power of the Shroud until the Viper intervened with a swift injection of phantom venom.†   (source)
  • Only now that we are about to destroy more than an acceptable level of genetic material are they deciding to intervene.†   (source)
  • Annie wanted to intervene, to protect her.†   (source)
  • Okay, the Air Races Intervened September is Air Race month in Northern Nevada'four fabulous days of warbirds, jets, and homebuilt aircraft, racing wingtip to wingtip, balls out, around pylons.†   (source)
  • We observe but we do not intervene.†   (source)
  • They had talked extensively about intervention, but most of what they'd read said that Adam had to be ready, that the only person who could help Adam was Adam himself He was an adult; they could not commit him to a lockdown treatment program unless he was a danger to himself or others.†   (source)
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intervene as in:  in the intervening years

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  • Decades intervened before the story was written.
    intervened = passed
  • All of the intervening layers slipped away, and I lost myself in the game within the game.   (source)
    intervening = between
  • They needed to stick to the routine they'd established during the intervening months.   (source)
    intervening = passage of time during the
  • It cannot jump over the intervening space.   (source)
    intervening = between two things
  • For Alexander Rostov had spent the intervening years traveling up and down the Metropol's staircase from his bedroom to the Boyarsky and back again.   (source)
    intervening = time between the
  • She looked down at his hands, at the coarse, dark hairs that had sprouted on the back of them in the intervening years.   (source)
    intervening = passing between the
  • It's morning now, so most of the intervening time has been night.   (source)
    intervening = in between
  • He knew he was too early to meet Hermione, but he thought it likely there would be someone in here with whom he could spend the intervening time.   (source)
    intervening = passing between two events
  • He remembered no intervening time, no sore feet—but here he was, addressing in the politest terms an old lady who stood in the doorway of a flat-fronted terraced house.   (source)
    intervening = in between
  • She had cut all her hair off and grown thinner in the intervening years, but it was her, sitting at the drafting board she used as a desk and reading a psychology book.   (source)
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  • Colonel Edmund Rice, chief of the exposition's Columbian Guard, described what it was like to stand in a shaded wood at Gettysburg as Pickett launched his men across the intervening field.   (source)
  • It had gotten seedier in the fifty intervening years and after taking stock we left.   (source)
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  • Unless someone intervenes, unless the master bolt is found and returned to Zeus before the solstice, there will be war.†   (source)
  • I have discovered, deep in the hearts of many condemned and incarcerated people, the scattered traces of hope and humanity—seeds of restoration that come to astonishing life when nurtured by very simple interventions.†   (source)
  • -is that if the administration intervenes, it makes it worse for the kid who's being bullied.†   (source)
  • Having faith requires leaps of faith, cerebral acceptance of miracles-immaculate conceptions and divine interventions.†   (source)
  • There was a brief silence in which the distant echo of Hagrid smashing down a wooden front door seemed to reverberate through the intervening years.†   (source)
  • Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?†   (source)
  • Life has a funny way of intervening.†   (source)
  • Since the concept of a personal God, lying awake at night worrying about human beings, intervening in the lives of individuals, always had been totally absurd to Sol, the thought of such dialogues made him doubt his sanity.†   (source)
  • I spent the intervening days catching up on my sleep, working in Kilvin's shop, and enjoying my new, luxurious accommodations at the Horse and Four.†   (source)
  • Magic Eye intervenes.†   (source)
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  • He must have thought of her, then, in the intervening time.†   (source)
  • There's no such thing as a chemical imbalance, Dr. Cruise argued, appearing on Access Hollywood and the Today show, basing his expertise on interventions with fellow Scientologists.†   (source)
  • We scrambled across the intervening platforms, heads low to avoid another bump, dropped down to the aisle, and edged our way to a patch of light.†   (source)
  • "In spite of remarkable intervening circumstances," I said, "if Rachel ever gets back to Bethlehem for a high school reunion she will win the prize for 'Changed the Least.†   (source)
  • Like a broken record, the words played over and over in my head—intervening on her behalf would blur the lines between who was the victim and who was the person at fault.†   (source)
  • Our world was nothing but his interventions.†   (source)
  • When it finally arrived and they met once again, the sweater Blanca had knit for Pedro didn't fit over his head, because in the intervening months he had left his childhood behind and acquired the dimensions of a man, and the tender songs he had composed now sounded ridiculous to her, because she had a woman's bearing and a woman's needs.†   (source)
  • In the intervening eight years, Chime's business had grown steadily.†   (source)
  • A critic looking at these tightly focused, targeted interventions might dismiss them as Band-Aid solutions.†   (source)
  • There were ten binders containing material on members of the Vanger family; these pages were typed and had been compiled over the intervening years, Vanger's investigations of his own family.†   (source)
  • A wailing cry sounded from the outer corridors, its volume muffled by the intervening hangings.†   (source)
  • Like heaven-sent angels, she believed they were watching out for her, always present but never intervening, as if they felt that she would always make the right decisions.†   (source)
  • The big donors, whether government aid groups or large philanthropic organizations, want to make systematic interventions that are scalable, and there are good reasons for that.†   (source)
  • The intervening years lay compressed between us as if by bookends.†   (source)
  • Ever since the Prince had dragged her to her room she had spent the intervening hours thinking of ways to make Westley happy.†   (source)
  • Subtly, almost without notice, the passing days bring him self-knowledge, which is what all the lecturing, notetaking, testing, and endless intervening hours are really about anyway.†   (source)
  • Carlisle saw it all again, his memory unblurred by the intervening century.†   (source)
  • The butcher's ramblings subsided, and in the intervening silence, Eragon placed his hand on Sloan's upper arm.†   (source)
  • Like others, he attributed the storm of March 5 to the intervening hand of God.†   (source)
  • I felt there was something I ought to explain about the intervening years.†   (source)
  • Just to enact one part of the plan, just to extend Zanmi Lasante's program for preventing transmission of HIV from mothers to babies, looked as difficult as the nationwide mdr project in Peru, and that project ranked among the most complex health interventions ever undertaken in a poor country.†   (source)
  • But within barely a decade, the Klan had been extinguished, largely by legal and military interventions out of Washington, D.C. If the Klan itself was defeated, however, its aims had largely been achieved through the establishment of Jim Crow laws.†   (source)
  • She pries open my head and my fists and crams into them responsibility for time, responsibility for intervening oceans.†   (source)
  • She had regained her equilibrium in the intervening months, and the difference between that terrified girl and this slightly macho, bravado-filled convict was striking.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, their progress slowed—smoothly, wondrously, as though the intervening air were congealing into gelatin.†   (source)
  • And yet, on our six-hour drive south, we seemed to have passed through a time machine, as if, in March of 1942 one had lifted his foot to take a step, had set it down in October of 1945, and was expected just to keep on walking, with all intervening time erased.†   (source)
  • In the intervening years, they'd somehow become friends.†   (source)
  • What happened in the intervening years to cause his silence?†   (source)
  • Felicity quickly intervenes.†   (source)
  • During the intervening thirty-eight years, it had grown into a robust city of over 334,000 people and an industrial, commercial, and cultural center that rivaled the great East Coast cities, such as New York and Boston.†   (source)
  • And how crazy the intervening years had been.†   (source)
  • On the other side, another object is accelerated toward it because of a lack of pressure between the two-because the gravitational rays that would balance it have been weakened or cut off by the intervening mass.†   (source)
  • Now, whenever I listen to patients' breath sounds while squeezing oxygen into their lungs or intervening when their blood pressures sag, when I hold their hands or dry their tears, I find myself literally in touch with the sacred.†   (source)
  • Even muffled by intervening rooms, the nature of the sound was unmistakable.†   (source)
  • So what are we intervening?†   (source)
  • And as Dr. Mansour had more free time, it had become his habit to spend most of the day in the department, which he would roam, observing what went on from a distance, and always intervening at the appropriate time.†   (source)
  • "So intervening with the humans drops the likelihood of such a war?" the admiral asked.†   (source)
  • I can, of course, imagine it being deconstructed nowadays as a paradigm of colonialism, with Kevin figuring as the benign imperialist (or the missionary in the wake of the imperialist), the one who intervenes and appropriates the indigenous life and interferes with its pristine ecology.†   (source)
  • My memories were distorted by twenty-five intervening years.†   (source)
  • In the years intervening Oedipa had rememberd Jesus because he'd seen that about Pierce and she hadn't.†   (source)
  • I intended to go directly to the spot where I had seen the wolf disappear, pick up his trail, and follow until I found him The going was rough and rocky at first, and I took a good deal longer to cover the intervening ground than the wolf had done, but eventually I scaled the low crest where I had last seen him ( or her ).†   (source)
  • The clamor beyond the intervening door was muffled.†   (source)
  • ANNIE gasps, and moves to grip HELEN'S wrist; but KATE intervenes with a proffered sweet, and HELEN drops the card, crams the sweet into her mouth, and scrambles up to search her mother's hands for more.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, I have watched objectively, partly because of the accident of my having been cut off from intervening, and partly, I suppose, because of my nature.†   (source)
  • Then very soon, in my own mind, the intervening days would drop away; time would telescope.†   (source)
  • Intervening in this private and personal matter was brutal but necessary.†   (source)
  • His interventions produced immediate results.†   (source)
  • lyrone is about to burst out in angry defense of his family but Edmund intervenes.†   (source)
  • And as far as Eugene could make out over the heads of people intervening, he was walking along by himself.†   (source)
  • The intervening years in Europe had been as memorable and important, he felt, as any in his life.†   (source)
  • Yes, he transported us from one place to another without moving us through the intervening space.†   (source)
  • In the intervening minute I had not extracted any further information from Virgie.†   (source)
  • Variations in gravity are simply a function of intervening mass.†   (source)
  • "So, what is the point of intervening in the Terran system?" the admiral asked.†   (source)
  • In the intervening twenty-five years my name had become reasonably well known.†   (source)
  • As the curses came shooting across the intervening space again, Hagrid swerved and zigzagged: Harry knew that Hagrid did not dare use the dragon-fire button again, with Harry seated so insecurely.†   (source)
  • To complicate matters, in the intervening two weeks since the shooting, Mandela's mood had continued to darken.†   (source)
  • Curiously enough, though he didn't know it, he was also a direct male-line descendant of Genghis Khan, though intervening generations and racial mixing had so juggled his genes that he had no discernible Mongoloid characteristics, and the only vestiges left in Mr. L. Prosser of his mighty ancestry were a pronounced stoutness about the tum and a predilection for little fur hats.†   (source)
  • He is a personal God who intervenes in the course of history and dies on the Cross for the sake of mankind.†   (source)
  • This was a fight he had dreamed about — man against man, skill against skill with no shields intervening.†   (source)
  • Sesame Street, after all, was a product of the 1960s, and in the intervening three decades major strides had been made in understanding how children's minds work.†   (source)
  • Postponing the ceremony before it starts is grounds alone for an inquiry, but after the doors are sealed nothing intervenes.†   (source)
  • The belief is that God intervenes in the course of history—even that history exists in order that God may manifest his will in the world, just as he once led Abraham to the "Promised Land," he leads mankind's steps through history to the Day of Judgment.†   (source)
  • At the start of the intervening school years, he had merely skimmed off the topmost three quarters of the contents and replaced or updated them, leaving a layer of general debris at the bottom — old quills, desiccated beetle eyes, single socks that no longer fit.†   (source)
  • Tonight, as she told her story, she felt as if the intervening years had been reversed, and though it was a ridiculous notion, she wondered if her daughter had noticed a newfound youthfulness about her.†   (source)
  • Night after night he had cloistered them and let them talk, intervening only now and then to limit the invective between the Hutu and the Tutsi boys.†   (source)
  • Church services on either end framed the intervening spread of inertia-a few phone calls, an outing to a mall in Silver Spring, some psychology reading for the class's dreaded second midterm in April, and plenty of TV.†   (source)
  • Helping people is difficult and unpredictable, and our interventions don't always work, but successes are possible, and these victories are incredibly important.†   (source)
  • He couldn't push along the narrow aisle past the intervening passengers without causing a commotion, however, and he preferred not to let Mr. Panama know that he had been spotted.†   (source)
  • Within that depression his heart tapped firmly against her fingers with only a thin layer of hide intervening.†   (source)
  • It was not until late the following summer that the final, or definitive, Treaty of Paris was signed, and in the intervening time Adams fell once again into a black mood.†   (source)
  • Dr. Mansour would explain these interventions of his by saying "I always pass on my experience to my children," and it was in exactly the same fatherly spirit that Dr. Mansour was accustomed to destroy the hopes of the students whose theses he was supervising.†   (source)
  • While the two dragons danced among the clouds, Oromis taught Eragon how a magician could transport an object from one place to another without having the object traverse the intervening distance.†   (source)
  • He supposed that, from Arya's point of view, the intervening months were a trifling amount of time, but he could not help feeling hurt.†   (source)
  • Knowlton and his Rangers were to probe for the enemy along the wooded ridges to the south, which rose beyond a narrow, intervening valley known as the Hollow Way.†   (source)
  • The storm of falling fire seemed to increase every second....Looking back ...toward the Opera House, I saw the smoke and flames pouring out of State Street, from the very point we had just left, and the intervening space was filled with the whirling embers that beat against the houses and covered the roofs and windowsills.†   (source)
  • Even simple interventions, such as stopping mother-to-child transmission of HIV in childbirth, are more difficult to get right than anyone sitting in an armchair in America might imagine.†   (source)
  • Arya crossed the intervening distance with a single bound and began swinging at him with heavy, looping blows that he blocked with his shield.†   (source)
  • When a first letter from Abigail arrived on June 16, he wrote to her at once, but it would be midsummer before he heard from her again, and numerous letters that he wrote in the intervening time were either stolen, lost, or captured at sea—he would never know.†   (source)
  • It required meticulous nursing care, and Deepak and me poring over his daily flowcharts, anticipating his needs, and intervening with ongoing problems.†   (source)
  • Even ifGalbatorix or the Forsworn had thought to search with their minds in such an unlikely location, the intervening rock would have made it difficult for them to feel much more than a confused flux of energy, which they would have attributed to eddies within the blood of the earth, which lies close beneath us.†   (source)
  • Another study suggested that it would cost an additional $9 billion a year to provide all effective interventions for maternal and newborn health to 95 percent of the world's population.†   (source)
  • In the old lands they say of us that we go from barbarism to decadence without an intervening culture.†   (source)
  • But in the intervening months the young man had disappeared and nothing was known about his wife, who had recovered.†   (source)
  • Unknown, however, to Commodore Pinguid, Czar Nicholas II of Russia had dispatched his Far East Fleet, four corvettes and two clippers, all under the command, of one Rear Admiral Popov, to San Francisco Bay, as part of a ploy to keep Britain and France from (among other things) intervening on the side of the Confederacy.†   (source)
  • I had begun to eye the door and the intervening furniture, and quickly schemed out the best way of immediate exit.†   (source)
  • When I eventually re-established contact with Churchill after many months of absence, it was to discover that the nature of my "real" mission had become public property: I had, so I then learned, actually spent the intervening months floating around the North Pole on an ice floe, keeping tabs on the activities of a crowd of Russians who were drifting about on their ice floe.†   (source)
  • The knowledge that I was still needed would be like satisfaction enough, and would be converted, while I waited for her in the flat, into irritation and self-disgust, which would continue right up to the moment when, after pattering up the external staircase, she came into the sitting room, all the strain of Raymond and the intervening days showing on her face.†   (source)
  • As we drove to the Domain—the intervening area, once empty, now filling up with the shacks of new arrivals from the villages: shacks which, in Indar's company, I seemed to be seeing for the first time: the red ground between the shacks stained with rivulets of black or grey-green filth, maize and cassava planted in every free space—as we drove, Indar said, "How long did you say you've been living here?"†   (source)
  • And she failed to realize that in the intervening seconds there had registered somewhere in the precincts of Sholom Weiss's unmagnanimous brain her stupid contradiction of him, and its insolence.†   (source)
  • The intervening years between Cracow and Brooklyn had forced her—almost as a means of retaining sanity—to try to obliterate that time from recollection.†   (source)
  • "Good God—" And then his voice, transmuted back into what I had always conceived as Educated High Brooklyn, became a snarl of such ferocity that even the myriad intervening and humming electronic synapses could not filter out the force of its crazed but human rage.†   (source)
  • During the intervening days—looking forward to our second meeting with such unseemly excitement that I felt a little sick and began off and on to run a mild but genuine fever—I had become intoxicated mainly by a single fact: this time I would surely succeed.†   (source)
  • On the ugly street below—gray and grainy and featureless like the worn sole of a shoe—a platoon of German soldiers tramped into the gusty wind, the collars of their tunics blowing, rifles slung at the shoulder; listlessly she watched them pass the corner, turn, disappear up a street where but for an intervening bombed-out building she knew she could have seen the steel-and-iron curbside public gallows: it was as functional as a rack upon which secondhand dealers displayed used clothes, and from its horizontal bar citizens of Warsaw beyond counting had twisted and hung.†   (source)
  • Beyond them, above the intervening woods, rose the fourteen-story tower of Elstead.†   (source)
  • All intervening things and interferences were of the same unreal kind and belonged—out there.†   (source)
  • Now don't excite yourself, dear," said Nurse Capstick, intervening.†   (source)
  • How strange to feel the line that is spun from us lengthening its fine filament across the misty spaces of the intervening world.†   (source)
  • a woman might smoke it, yet withal such an air of indolent and lethal assurance that only the most reckless man would have gratuitously drawn the comparison (and with no attempt to teach, train, play the mentor on his part—and then maybe yes; maybe who could know what times he looked at Henry's face and thought, not there but for the intervening leaven of that blood which we do not have in common is my skull, my brow, sockets, shape and angle of jaw and chin and some of my thinking behind it, and which he could see in my face in his turn if he but knew to look as I know but there, just behind a little, obscured a little by that alien blood whose admixing was necessary in order that h†   (source)
  • Furious, intervening, crossing to them.†   (source)
  • Actually scenes of this kind continued to take place fairly often, without the authorities' making even a show of intervening.†   (source)
  • Directly in front of him, with only a short space of water intervening, a black tugboat churned its way.†   (source)
  • He enters the stall and waits until it kicks at him so that he can slip past and mount onto the trough and pause, peering out across the intervening stall-tops toward the empty path, before he reaches into the loft.†   (source)
  • It was this cloistral hush which gave our laughter its resonance, and carried it still, joyously, over the intervening clamor.†   (source)
  • Gasping a welcome, Mr. Avery bore down on him, with a violent shuffle of his feet and a palsied tattoo of his heavy stick which brought him over the intervening three yards in forty seconds.†   (source)
  • Now and then she would lift her gaze from her lap, where the hands were clasped together with the veins showing blue, and would look across the intervening distance into her husband's face.†   (source)
  • It was dark before the bed was finished; we went to see it, Lord Marchmain stepping quite briskly now through the intervening rooms.†   (source)
  • It was as though whatever marks being in the world had left upon it up to the time the aunt vanished had been removed, eradicated at least, from between the skeleton and the skin, between the sum of experience and the envelope in which it resides, by the intervening years of annealing and untroubled flesh.†   (source)
  • The street which she had foreseen years before had been cut through behind her boundaries: she lacked thirty feet of meeting the golden highway, but she had bought the intervening strip, paying without complaint a stiff price.†   (source)
  • Yes, everyone sleeps at that hour, and this is reassuring, since the great longing of an unquiet heart is to possess constantly and consciously the loved one, or, failing that, to be able to plunge the loved one, when a time of absence intervenes, into a dreamless sleep timed to last unbroken until the day they meet again.†   (source)
  • And the old Sabine" They stared—glared—at one another, their voices (it was Shreve speaking, though save for the slight difference which the intervening degrees of latitude had inculcated in them (differences not in tone or pitch but in turns of phrase and usage of words), it might have been either of them and was in a sense both: both thinking as one, the voice which happened to be speaking the thought only the thinking become audible, vocal; the two of them creating between them, out of th†   (source)
  • By chance I met this same wine again, lunching with my wine merchant in St. James's Street, in the first autumn of the war; it had softened and faded in the intervening years, but it still spoke in the pure, authentic accent of its prime, the same words of hope.†   (source)
  • Gallipoli, Balaclava, Quebec, Lepanto, Bannockburn, Roncevales and Marathon—these, and the Battle in the West where Arthur fell, and a hundred such names whose trumpet-notes, even now in my sere and lawless state, called to me irresistibly across the intervening years with all the clarity and strength of boyhood, sounded in vain to Hooper.†   (source)
  • He grovelled in the gloom, the eyes from out his drawn face riveted upon the intervening door.†   (source)
  • There was dancing, but Joan could not see the dancers because of the intervening crowd.†   (source)
  • Slowly the butt descended the several intervening inches, at the same time slightly twisting again.†   (source)
  • "I haven't such a bad opinion of the Jesuits," he said, intervening at length.†   (source)
  • The cowboy, missing her, came back the few intervening steps.†   (source)
  • I wished to annihilate the tedious intervening days.†   (source)
  • Madeline looked with eyes that would fain have pierced the intervening distance.†   (source)
  • She could not see it well, owing to intervening treetops.†   (source)
  • I cannot consent to separate America from Europe, in spite of the ocean which intervenes.†   (source)
  • As for us, when Providence intervenes and strikes, we let it work.†   (source)
  • To remind'; and passed the intervening period in a state of dotage.†   (source)
  • Ralph had two theories about this intervenes.†   (source)
  • The intervening time I resolved to spend with my son.†   (source)
  • I saw no more of the small intervening billows that form in the troughs of the big crests.†   (source)
  • Rosier instantly discovered his friend, who had been hidden by intervening groups.†   (source)
  • In the intervening time Buckingham perhaps sent him to Paris, as he did the horses.†   (source)
  • An intervening elevation of land hid the light.†   (source)
  • Here slang intervenes and takes it up: Candle, camoufle.†   (source)
  • He took the lamp in his hand, crossed the two intervening outer rooms, and opened it.†   (source)
  • It was evident that Providence was intervening.†   (source)
  • During all the intervening time my mental condition had been a hurrying succession of vague emotional states or a sort of stupid receptivity.†   (source)
  • Gradually, however, as time passed, it began to enlarge, to creep down the slope, to encroach upon the intervening distance.†   (source)
  • With an anxious start, she reaches for it; he, too, is unnerved, is pulled up halfway from his chair, and is about to dash blindly across eight yards and around an intervening table to come to her aid, as if it would be a catastrophe for her napkin to touch the ground.†   (source)
  • With the exception of the huge bulks of the skin-lodges, little could be seen save the flames of the fire, broken by the movements of intervening bodies, and the smoke rising slowly on the quiet air.†   (source)
  • A rose-red horizon lay far below and to the eastward; the intervening descent was like a rolling sea with league-long swells.†   (source)
  • He remained in and about Marygreen through the intervening days, went out on Friday morning to see that the grave was finished, and wondered if Sue would come.†   (source)
  • She was appalled by the intense cleanness of the vision; she seemed to have broken through the merciful veil which intervenes between intention and action, and to see exactly what she would do in all the long days to come.†   (source)
  • Further away still, vegetable gardens abounded, with frequent small plantations of orange or lemon trees intervening.†   (source)
  • The gloomy intervening time seemed to sink into chaos, over which the present and prior times closed as if it never had been.†   (source)
  • Only his fellow-snobs knew that he was of their number, for, owing to their inability to appreciate the intervening efforts of his imagination, they saw in close juxtaposition the social activities of Legrandin and their primary cause.†   (source)
  • In spite of the fact that only the morning before she had informed Clyde, with quite a flourish, that she could not possibly see him until the following Monday—that all her intervening nights were taken—nevertheless, the problem of the coat looming up before her, she now most eagerly planned to contrive an immediate engagement with him without appearing too eager.†   (source)
  • The Villa Diana had been rented again for the summer, so they divided the intervening time between German spas and French cathedral towns where they were always happy for a few days.†   (source)
  • So long as I travelled at a high velocity through time, this scarcely mattered; I was, so to speak, attenuated—was slipping like a vapour through the interstices of intervening substances!†   (source)
  • All the intervening weeks of shame and anguish and fury and strife and pathos, and the endless striving to forget, were as if by the magic of a letter made nothing but vain oblations.†   (source)
  • The distance I had come, or the intervening masses of thicket, deadened any sound that might be coming from the enclosure.†   (source)
  • However, there were miles to go still, and those hard-riding devils behind made alarming decrease in the intervening distance.†   (source)
  • She had once told him that she often went there, and he had a fancy to spend the intervening time in a place where he could think of her as perhaps having lately been.†   (source)
  • He generally began that day with wishing he had had no intervening holiday, it made the going into captivity and fetters again so much more odious.†   (source)
  • And as always Hans Castorp had glanced past Settembrini—who sat with his back to him at one end of the intervening crosswise table—to get a view of the Good Russian table; this time, however, he had paid particular notice to the way her head moved as she spoke, to the arch of her neck and the limp posture of her back.†   (source)
  • He went three hundred yards up the slope to the other hotel, he engaged a room and found himself washing without a memory of the intervening ten minutes, only a sort of drunken flush pierced with voices, unimportant voices that did not know how much he was loved.†   (source)
  • Stop!" cried Montgomery, intervening.†   (source)
  • The journey over the intervening uplands and lowlands of Egdon, when she reached them, was a more troublesome walk than she had anticipated, the distance being actually but a few miles.†   (source)
  • He left Sweden when he was eighteen, is now thirty-eight, and in all the intervening time has not been home once.†   (source)
  • Through the intervening fortnight he ran about and smiled outwardly at his inward thoughts, as if they were people meeting and nodding to him—smiled with that singularly beautiful irradiation which is seen to spread on young faces at the inception of some glorious idea, as if a supernatural lamp were held inside their transparent natures, giving rise to the flattering fancy that heaven lies about them then.†   (source)
  • It was in vain that he assured himself that this possible meeting at Prevost's (the tension of waiting for which so ravished, stripped so bare the intervening moments that he could find nothing, not one idea, not one memory in his mind beneath which his troubled spirit might take shelter and repose) would probably, after all, should it take place, be much the same as all their meetings, of no great importance.†   (source)
  • He ceased in breathless suspense and stared fearfully at a line of mounted Indians moving in single file over the ridge to become lost to view in the intervening blackness.†   (source)
  • They trotted across half the intervening distance, and when Florence halted again Madeline was still not satisfied and asked to be taken nearer.†   (source)
  • I had seen a distant headland past the extreme edge of the promontory, and as we looked we could see grow the intervening coastline of what was evidently a deep cove.†   (source)
  • And so he saw himself faced by the close of his evening—a thing uniform, and yet bifurcated by the intervening accident which would either put an end to his agony by discovering Odette, or would oblige him to abandon any hope of finding her that night, to accept the necessity of returning home without having seen her.†   (source)
  • Then, as prescribed, they promenaded to the bench beside the wooden trough, and afterward James Tienappel enjoyed his first hour of rest cure, to which practice he was introduced by his nephew, who supplemented the plaid roll James had brought along with a camel-hair blanket of his own—one being more than enough for Hans Castorp, given the lovely autumn weather—and instructed his uncle, step by step, in the traditional art of wrapping oneself; in fact, once the consul had been transformed into a smooth, cylindrical mummy, Hans Castorp undid it all, in order to have his uncle repeat the whole established procedure on his own, intervening only occasionally to improve his technique.†   (source)
  • He left the chair, just as he sat in it, squarely, springing from the sitting posture like a wild animal, a tiger, and like a tiger covered the intervening space.†   (source)
  • People of Herr Settembrini's sort, the doubters and critics, had observed this fact and seen to it that the old naive form of justice was replaced by the Inquisition, which no longer depended on God's intervening on behalf of truth, but was aimed at obtaining the truth through the confession of the accused.†   (source)
  • He began, always, with a sustained tremolo from the violin part, which, for several bars, was unaccompanied, and filled all the foreground; until suddenly it seemed to be drawn aside, and—just as in those interiors by Pieter de Hooch, where the subject is set back a long way through the narrow framework of a half-opened door—infinitely remote, in colour quite different, velvety with the radiance of some intervening light, the little phrase appeared, dancing, pastoral, interpolated, episodic, belonging to another world.†   (source)
  • Joachim, who attached definite importance to such tokens, had of course seen to it that a few flowers adorned the returnee's place setting; but Hans Castorp's tablemates greeted him with little ceremony, with essentially no more interest than usual, as if he had been gone for three hours and not three weeks—not so much out of indifference to this ordinary, sympathetic fellow or out of self-absorption and preoccupation with their own interesting bodies, but because they were oblivious to the intervening time.†   (source)
  • Even when he could not discover where she had gone, it would have sufficed to alleviate the anguish that he then felt, for which Odette's presence, the charm of her company, was the sole specific (a specific which in the long run served, like many other remedies, to aggravate the disease, but at least brought temporary relief to his sufferings), it would have sufficed, had Odette only permitted him to remain in her house while she was out, to wait there until that hour of her return, into whose stillness and peace would flow, to be mingled and lost there, all memory of those intervening hours which some sorcery, some cursed spell had made him imagine as, somehow, different from the rest.†   (source)
  • Maud Brewster and I scarcely touched the food before us, gazing, instead, in silent anxiety at each other, and listening to Wolf Larsen's voice, which easily penetrated the cabin through the intervening bulkhead.†   (source)
  • Swann used often to go and spend a few days at Laon, and, for all that it was many miles away, the distance was obviated by the absence of any intervening obstacle; when, on hot afternoons, I would see a breath of wind emerge from the farthest horizon, bowing the heads of the corn in distant fields, pouring like a flood over all that vast expanse, and finally settling down, warm and rustling, among the clover and sainfoin at my feet, that plain which was common to us both seemed then to draw u†   (source)
  • Jingling and clattering, till distance rendered its noise inaudible, and its rapid progress only perceptible to the eye, the vehicle wound its way along the road, almost hidden in a cloud of dust: now wholly disappearing, and now becoming visible again, as intervening objects, or the intricacies of the way, permitted.†   (source)
  • It became at once evident that the dance was proceeding immediately within the surface of the door, no apartment intervening.†   (source)
  • In process of time, the rains wash off all the turf and grass aforesaid, move the logs hither and thither, in picturesque positions, up, down and crosswise, with divers chasms and ruts of black mud intervening.†   (source)
  • A mile and a half, it may be two miles, southeast of Bethlehem, there is a plain separated from the town by an intervening swell of the mountain.†   (source)
  • He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun.†   (source)
  • But agonizing as was the wound of this whale, and an appalling spectacle enough, any way; yet the peculiar horror with which he seemed to inspire the rest of the herd, was owing to a cause which at first the intervening distance obscured from us.†   (source)
  • Therefore he rang the bell, and tossing himself negligently on a sofa, ordered 'Some dinner at six — with a beefsteak in it,' and got through the intervening time as well as he could.†   (source)
  • It wandered back to my godmother's house and came along the intervening track, raising up shadowy speculations which had sometimes trembled there in the dark as to what knowledge Mr. Jarndyce had of my earliest history—even as to the possibility of his being my father, though that idle dream was quite gone now.†   (source)
  • "I fear your friends in the other bottom will not escape the eyes of the imps!" continued the trapper, as coolly as though he had not heard a syllable of the intervening discourse.†   (source)
  • Passing through an intervening passage, she opened a door that communicated with the shop, just now so elaborately described.†   (source)
  • Many important incidents had, however, occurred in the intervening period; a few of which it may be necessary to recount.†   (source)
  • They came in yet greater volumes, and indolently crept across the intervening valleys, and around the withered papery flags of the moor and river brinks.†   (source)
  • This phenomenon, in the various shapes which it assumed, indicated no external change, but so sudden and important a change in the spectator of the familiar scene, that the intervening space of a single day had operated on his consciousness like the lapse of years.†   (source)
  • He invited the twins to look in at his lodgings presently, after disposing of an intervening engagement, and they accepted with pleasure.†   (source)
  • While the gusts were bringing the notes to his ears across the damp intervening flat a man passed behind him and greeted Henchard by name.†   (source)
  • Without stopping to inquire whether the intervening day appeared to Nicholas to consist of the usual number of hours of the ordinary length, it may be remarked that, to the parties more directly interested in the forthcoming ceremony, it passed with great rapidity, insomuch that when Miss Petowker awoke on the succeeding morning in the chamber of Miss Snevellicci, she declared that nothing should ever persuade her that that really was the day which was to behold a change in her condition.†   (source)
  • We have glimpses, here and there and yonder, through the dim cathedral twilight, of portions of many galleries and balconies, wedged full with other people, the other portions of these galleries and balconies being cut off from sight by intervening pillars and architectural projections.†   (source)
  • They passed through the intervening streets as quickly as they might, ascended the staircase of the new domicile, were admitted by Jerry, and found Lucie weeping, alone.†   (source)
  • Philip's sense of the situation was too complete for him not to be visited with glancing fears lest he had been intervening too presumptuously in the action of Maggie's conscience, perhaps for a selfish end.†   (source)
  • Immediately, he saw in advance—a few people intervening, but still so near to him that he could have touched them by stretching out his arm—Tattycoram and a strange man of a remarkable appearance: a swaggering man, with a high nose, and a black moustache as false in its colour as his eyes were false in their expression, who wore his heavy cloak with the air of a foreigner.†   (source)
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