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  • The Smokies hunted, but they were like the rangers, killing only species that didn't belong in this part of the world or that had gotten out of control thanks to the Rusties' meddling.†   (source)
  • Marsha, still grieving the loss of her baby and frustrated by the meddling, reacted badly to the police questioning.†   (source)
  • "Foolish, meddling nitwit," grumbled Grandfather.†   (source)
  • The meddling botanists have grudgingly admitted I did a good job.†   (source)
  • You meddle into everybody's business.†   (source)
  • Steady Eddie said, "Thug, you're gonna have to lay off the kid's chops, the little man's got problems enough and he sure don't need to have you meddling with him.†   (source)
  • If we meddled in every squabble and catfight we saw, we'd never be done.†   (source)
  • It's not like Mother's meddling, but a clean hope, without strings or hurt.†   (source)
  • I brought her here to do my bidding, not to meddle in the life of my son and empire.†   (source)
  • And now his wife has abducted Tyrion Lannister, thanks to Little-finger's meddling.†   (source)
  • Yes, it was a relief that A was Andrew and not Ali, and yes, she felt a billion times better and a zillion times less paranoid since yesterday, but still—what a horrible, meddling spy!†   (source)
  • She had opposed Jack when he proposed paying for the boy's education, which smacked of meddling to her, and unfair on Leon and the girls.†   (source)
  • I didn't want to meddle with any more of my amateur theories.†   (source)
  • Before you meddled?†   (source)
  • What my blasted mother Hera is doing now—she's a meddling fool playing a dangerous game, but she's right about one thing: you demigods have to unite.†   (source)
  • My son, fear the Lord and the King, and meddle not with them that are given to change, For their calamity shall rise suddenly, and who knoweth the ruin of them both?†   (source)
  • For keeping you from meddling.†   (source)
  • I remember the Riders and how they meddled in our affairs.†   (source)
  • "In their enthusiasm for conflict resolution, the Amity have apparently forgotten that meddling creates more conflict," says Tobias.†   (source)
  • He works to remain calm during these conversations, not to accuse her of meddling, as he once would have done.†   (source)
  • Your principal meddles.†   (source)
  • We don't want any meddling with dark things better left alone.†   (source)
  • Perhaps my meddling would shake their resolve in helping me.†   (source)
  • All the time, no matter what they were doing— whether Denver wiped perspiration from her forehead or stooped to retie her shoes; whether Paul D kicked a stone or reached over to meddle a child's face leaning on its mother's shoulder—all the time the three shadows that shot out of their feet to the left held hands.†   (source)
  • "You three meddling fools may have destroyed my army of Talking Toilets..." screamed the Turbo Toilet 2000, "...but you're all out of cafeteria food!†   (source)
  • The fools are planning to march up to Massachusetts to meddle in something that isn't their affair.†   (source)
  • The truth was that Ursula resisted growing old even when she had already lost count of her age and she was a bother on all sides as she tried to meddle in everything and as she annoyed strangers with her questions as to whether they had left a plaster Saint Joseph to be kept until the rains were over during the days of the war.†   (source)
  • She suspected that Armansky hoped that this way he would have a chance to keep an eye on her and meddle in her affairs.†   (source)
  • He wasn't dressed any differently from anyone else, and when I kept asking the question again and again, all he finally said, with a big grin, was, "I'm a meddler."†   (source)
  • The dead Tenorio who had meddled with the fate of Narciso and Ultima would be carted away from our hills.†   (source)
  • And if you didn't insist on meddling in large affairs that affect the globe, you would actually be charming.†   (source)
  • DESPITE A PASSIONATE OPPOSITION to socialism and to any government meddling with free enterprise, Walt Disney relied on federal funds in the 1940s to keep his business afloat.†   (source)
  • I remonstrated with them but was told in no uncertain terms that the matter was the women's affair and that the ANC—as well as anxious husbands—should not meddle.†   (source)
  • I ain't meddling.†   (source)
  • I would let him work through it without meddling.†   (source)
  • This sounds like meddling.†   (source)
  • But I thought better of it, in case she somehow found out, spoiling what had begun so well, and without any meddling.†   (source)
  • And while the president has promised Khrushchev that he will not meddle in Cuban affairs, this does not mean that the CIA's Operation Mongoose has come to an end.†   (source)
  • Because what you've been trying to do is meddle in something you know nothing about.†   (source)
  • There was less bulimia and more fights than I had known as an undergrad, but the same feminine ethos was present—empathetic camaraderie and bawdy humor on good days, and histrionic dramas coupled with meddling, malicious gossip on bad days.†   (source)
  • Them that makes or meddles in such gits theirselves into trouble, that's what I say," Zack told the visitors, stroking a chin whose contours expressed the resolution and aggressiveness of a rabbit.†   (source)
  • After two occurrences, he concluded that the ship knew its business far better than he did and he ceased his meddling.†   (source)
  • I cannot recast those years in smooth, cool marble, and believe that my meddling will make things all better again.†   (source)
  • Bad, bad trouble come when beke meddle with that.†   (source)
  • Writing earlier to the Earl of Huntingdon, the handsome Lord Rawdon had expressed the hope that "we shall soon have done with these [American] scoundrels, for one only dirties one's fingers by meddling with them.†   (source)
  • His knowledge is deep, but his pride has grown with it, and he takes ill any meddling.†   (source)
  • They were meddling with a tenuous balance.†   (source)
  • Alas, they all stay trapped in my throat as I look on helplessly while my evening's fate is decided by my meddling aunt and a cocksure teenage boy.†   (source)
  • I told her she was meddling in African witchcraft, and I left her and the Drawing Room abruptly, without explanation.†   (source)
  • I knew how easy it is for widow to be turned witch in the common mind, and the first cause generally is that she meddles somehow in medicinals.†   (source)
  • He was, I felt, something of a meddler.†   (source)
  • Thus, as she argued stubbornly with Ray over dinner that night that the Michigan Daily had no right to meddle in the financial affairs of campus sororities (her stand was based on rights of privacy, as he remembered it), he had fallen abruptly and thoroughly in love with her.†   (source)
  • We began to meddle into one another's lives.†   (source)
  • Roarke isn't one to meddle in family business.†   (source)
  • In one instance, an Iranian consular official, yelling in high dudgeon, from his quarters at the Gammon House, accused her of meddling in affairs far above her station.†   (source)
  • Quit trying to meddle around in my love life, Iz.†   (source)
  • Warring nations will meddle with our commerce.†   (source)
  • 'Stop meddling, stop prying, stop breathing down my neck.'†   (source)
  • Hatton asked, meddling around with stuff on my dresser.†   (source)
  • However, if things got out of control, if there was the least feeling of meddling with my mind, beyond the thing itself, I knew a way to terminate the experience instantly.†   (source)
  • I meddle.†   (source)
  • MORE (Bursting out) Your Grace, I'm not fit to meddle in these matters-to me it seems a matter for the Holy See— HENRY (Reprovingly) Thomas, Thomas, does a man need a Pope to tell him when he's sinned?†   (source)
  • And I'm telling you to move off before there's trouble, you socialist meddler.†   (source)
  • Or suppose Miriam, who harped so often on independence, blew up in anger and shouted at him for his meddling?†   (source)
  • Who told you you might meddle with such hifalut'n foolishness, hey?   (source)
  • But, son, I am angry that thou shouldst meddle in the business that belongs to these dirty Assamese jungle folk.   (source)
  • Well, I'll learn her how to meddle.   (source)
  • ...and she says: "WELL, you get all the enjoyment you can out of it NOW, for mind I tell you if I catch you meddling with him again—"   (source)
    meddling = interfering
  • I was in a sweat then, and watched him pretty keen. But he never meddled at all; just slid the lid along as soft as mush, and screwed it down tight and fast. So there I was! I didn't know whether the money was in there or not.   (source)
    meddled = manipulated something that shouldn't be handled
  • Meddling with WHO?   (source)
    meddling = interfering
  • Shall I be at liberty from the improper meddling of your Committee?†   (source)
  • Professor Slughorn has meddled with his own recollections.†   (source)
  • He isn't supposed to meddle in such household discipline, that's women's business.†   (source)
  • That means you meddle with dark forces better left alone.†   (source)
  • What was our kind doing anyway, meddling in these affairs?†   (source)
  • But if they meddle too much, they will upset the apple cart, and ruin everything.†   (source)
  • He had chosen his course of action, and it would have been a tactical mistake for her to meddle.†   (source)
  • "Just a little meddling with dark forces better left alone,".†   (source)
  • It's not a thing that should be meddled with.†   (source)
  • No good comes of meddling with these sort of folk.†   (source)
  • He'll wish he'd never met me, let alone meddled with my affairs.†   (source)
  • I'm just reconstructing a story, not meddling with dark arts.†   (source)
  • There's nothing to be gained by meddling with these sort of men.†   (source)
  • Nor will you ever be, if you meddle in affairs that do not concern you.†   (source)
  • This meddler, this poseur Blitzen has somehow managed to ruin my—†   (source)
  • You meddle in matters you do not understand.†   (source)
  • Little people should not meddle in affairs that are too big for them.†   (source)
  • "Yes," said Astaroth, "but he has learned that little boys should not meddle in such big affairs.†   (source)
  • You are a meddler, the daughter of a useless goddess.†   (source)
  • She ought to stick with her own kind, she should, and not go around meddling where she's not wanted.†   (source)
  • You better promise me not to meddle, Alvin Junior, or I just won't go home.†   (source)
  • You've not caused as much mischief as that bumbling meddler Brom, but neither have you been idle.†   (source)
  • It is not to meddle in the great affairs of the nation.†   (source)
  • Now, because of my meddling, it is etched in mine.†   (source)
  • Meddle not in policies which you do not understand.†   (source)
  • But I do have a slight concern, if you'll allow me to meddle in your business.†   (source)
  • I know you think I'm lazy—not serious, you say—but if we're friends...I don't meddle you, do I?†   (source)
  • Don't meddle," she growled between her teeth.†   (source)
  • You meddle in something and perhaps you don't know what it is.'†   (source)
  • But it is said: Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.†   (source)
  • Nay, not even our forefathers would dare meddle with such a thing.†   (source)
  • At this point, nothing Jake could say would stop the meddling.†   (source)
  • "Who are you to meddle with the dead!" she hissed.†   (source)
  • If you will meddle in the affairs of Wizards, you must be prepared to think of such things.†   (source)
  • It would do no good to you or to others, if you tried to meddle with it again.†   (source)
  • 'But our whole life for months has been one long meddling in the affairs of Wizards,' said Pippin.†   (source)
  • MORE Yes, I wrote advising her to abstain from meddling with the affairs of Princes and the State.†   (source)
  • Don't you meddle in this, Fatima, I can look after myself," said the delegate.†   (source)
  • Who did Voskoboini-kov think he was to meddle so outrageously with his life?†   (source)
  • She'd meddled in his life since he was a baby, molding him to serve her purpose in this big prophecy, but at least she had been on their side, more or less.†   (source)
  • Because, fool, at this very moment wizards are pouring into the country from all over the world, and every meddler from the Ministry of Magic will be on duty, on the watch for signs of ususual activity, checking and double-checking identities.†   (source)
  • Professor McGonagall told me what awful things have happened when wizards have meddled with time.... Loads of them ended up killing their past or future selves by mistake!†   (source)
  • I say these things, not from any wish to meddle or interfere, but out of a Mother's anxious care for the future of her only and beloved Son.†   (source)
  • Maybe he should have left it alone; maybe Sethe would have gotten around to telling him herself; maybe he was not the high minded Soldier of Christ he thought he was, but an ordinary, plain meddler who had interrupted something going along just fine for the sake of truth and forewarning, things he set much store by.†   (source)
  • X, who will be a dour Scot, warns them not to meddle with it as no good will come, but Y, who is an English scientist, says they must add to the store of human knowledge, whereas Z, an American, says they stand to make millions.†   (source)
  • Kvothe didn't meddle with demons.†   (source)
  • It took me a moment to remember that he was speaking of three span ago when he banned me from my work at the Fishery due to Wilem's meddling.†   (source)
  • When people get superstitious, they start to look toward the University and think, 141to around here is meddling with dark powers better left alone?†   (source)
  • Just as my fortune seemed to be turning, I was forced to leave my only paying job because of well-intentioned meddling by my friends.†   (source)
  • Eddard Stark took up right where Arryn had left off; his meddling had forced her to rid herself of Robert sooner than she would have liked, before she could deal with his pestilential brothers.†   (source)
  • You better promise me not to meddle.†   (source)
  • Why are you so busy meddling me?†   (source)
  • The idea that she had attacked her guardian—whom she would without a doubt perceive as someone who meddled in her affairs—was understandable.†   (source)
  • Even if I were in Tronjheim, I could not ensure a favorable outcome; the dwarves do not take kindly to anyone who is not of their clans meddling in their government.†   (source)
  • After all, Mr. Sikes had meddled with their relationship, and his Red Branch duties often required Max to travel far away on long and dangerous missions.†   (source)
  • But she wasn't certain that it was third or not because Sula was acting up, fretting the deweys and meddling the newly married couple.†   (source)
  • Preferring to deal only with the ever obliging Franklin, he dreaded the prospect of Adams meddling in what he, Vergennes, regarded as his exclusive domain, the power politics of Europe.†   (source)
  • Now who's meddling?†   (source)
  • I knew I should send it, that it wasn't up to me, that it isn't fair to meddle in other people's business.†   (source)
  • You—the grandson of that meddler, :Nord—come here asking to barter, disturbing the World Serpent, interrupting my scavenging, and you won't even agree to a reasonable offer?†   (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)
  • They create a disharmony that in the end reaches out and destroys life—With the passing away of Tenorio and myself the meddling will be done with, harmony will be reconstituted.†   (source)
  • I ain't meddling—(Underbreath; busy-bodyish) I just noticed all last week he had cold cereal, and when it starts getting this chilly in the fall a child ought to have some hot grits or something when he goes out in the coldRUTH: (Furious) I gave him hot oats—is that all right!†   (source)
  • You have no right to meddle!†   (source)
  • "All of them," says I. "It is obvious that all the powers of Europe will be continually maneuvering with us, to work us into their real or imaginary balances of power...I think it ought to be our rule not to meddle, and that of all the powers of Europe not to desire us, or perhaps even to permit us, to interfere, if they can help it."†   (source)
  • There are so many dreams to be fulfilled, but Ultima says a man's destiny must unfold itself like a flower, with only the sun and the earth and water making it blossom, and no one else meddling in it—†   (source)
  • I've seen it in my dealings throughout the Empire...If you were in my position, would you be able to resist the temptation to meddle, just a little, in order to make things better?†   (source)
  • The little-red-shrike-dragon was stronger and faster than Glaedr had anticipated, due to Galbatorix's meddling.†   (source)
  • Gentlemen like our good host still believe it's their business to meddle in matters they don't understand.†   (source)
  • Roundly castigated as a dangerous, possibly disloyal meddler, Logan found it impossible to get a fair hearing within the administration.†   (source)
  • Meddle?†   (source)
  • 'No, I don't meddle with that for you.'†   (source)
  • Thanks for meddling once again, Judge.†   (source)
  • Thorn was bigger than her now, as a result of the egg-breaker-Galbatorix's meddling, but she was not intimidated.†   (source)
  • Don't you go a-meddling with old stone or cold Wights or prying in their houses, unless you be strong folk with hearts that never falter!'†   (source)
  • She come to me and ask me for something to make you love her again and I tell her no I don't meddle in that for beke.†   (source)
  • While there was still a king they were in name his subjects, but they were, in fact, ruled by their own chieftains and meddled not at all with events in the world outside.†   (source)
  • I find it difficult and distasteful to believe that anyone could have succeeded in meddling with our minds.†   (source)
  • Now, Pippin my lad, don't forget Gildor's saying — the one Sam used to quote: Do not meddle in the at Fairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.'†   (source)
  • My concern is that one or more of the spells might be traps set to prevent people from meddling with the gates' enchantments.†   (source)
  • Thereafter, his deceptions had grown increasingly elaborate and improbable, but none broke the laws of reason and none conflicted with what he had already shown her, for the king was still trying to keep her ignorant of his meddling.†   (source)
  • Also, he suspected that she had intervened on more than one occasion to save him from a particularly dangerous blow, for at times his arms and legs seemed to move slightly faster than they should have, or even slightly before he intended to move them himself, and whenthat happened, he felt a tickle in the back of his mind that he knew meant Saphira was meddling with some part of his consciousness.†   (source)
  • You must call forth within them those nobler sentiments and higher qualities of spirit which make men subject to divine meddling.†   (source)
  • The doctor, who did know, tried to interfere, but his wife took him gently by the shoulders and pushed him out of the room, saying: "Don't you meddle in this.†   (source)
  • Lenochka, don't meddle.†   (source)
  • His housekeeper, or rather the chatelaine of his quiet retreat, Emma Ernestovna, took care of everything without meddling in his private life; she ran the place unseen and unheard.†   (source)
  • I'm surprised none of those well-intentioned meddlers in the Oval Office ever tapped you for his staff, or at least sent you to the UN.'†   (source)
  • 'That is so,' said Wormtongue; 'but there is a third kind: pickers of bones, meddlers in other men's sorrows, carrion-fowl that grow fat on war.†   (source)
  • He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted.†   (source)
  • May God requite me if I came here frying to meddle, to stir up rancor.†   (source)
  • And if I deny your right, Mozart, to interfere with the Steppenwolf, and to meddle in his destiny?†   (source)
  • "Indeed?" cried Scarlett, indignant both at the man's rudeness and Melly's meddling.†   (source)
  • He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted.†   (source)
  • 'That's why there is no use in even trying to meddle, interfere.†   (source)
  • But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle.†   (source)
  • I ain't going to meddle in what ain't none of my business.†   (source)
  • I'll have to get on so I can find me something else to meddle with.'†   (source)
  • But then, so had vanity conceived that house and, in a strange place and with little else but his bare hands and further handicapped by the chance and probability of meddling interference arising out of the disapprobation of all communities of men toward any situation which they do not understand, built it.†   (source)
  • Even Lady Bessborough, I remembered, with all her passion for politics, must humbly bow herself and write to Lord Granville Leveson-Gower: '....notwithstanding all my violence in politicks and talking so much on that subject, I perfectly agree with you that no woman has any business to meddle with that or any other serious business, farther than giving her opinion (if she is ask'd).'†   (source)
  • He wanted to loaf about the streets, steal from newsstands, rob stores, meddle with women, frequent dives, attend cheap movies, and chase prostitutes!†   (source)
  • Clover asked Benjamin to read her the Sixth Commandment, and when Benjamin, as usual, said that he refused to meddle in such matters, she fetched Muriel.†   (source)
  • Where is Becket, the meddling priest?†   (source)
  • I aint much for meddling.†   (source)
  • Now I see a lot of cards this sonofabitch meddler passed around, and I want you all to tear 'em up and have no more truck with him and them.†   (source)
  • She had often heard in Charleston and Savannah that Atlanta people gossiped more and meddled in other people's business more than any other people in the South, and now she believed it.†   (source)
  • he did arrive like the dynamite which destroys the house and the family and maybe even the whole community aint the old peaceful paper that maybe would rather be blowing aimless and light along the wind or the old merry sawdust or the old quiet chemicals that had rather be still and dark in the quiet earth like they had been before the meddling guy with ten-power spectacles came and dug them up and strained warped and kneaded them; —created between this woman and a hired lawyer (the woman who since before he could remember he now realised had been planning and grooming him for some moment that would come and pass and following which he saw that to her he would be little more than so muc†   (source)
  • It takes hold of some music played where you please, without distinction, stupid and coarse, lamentably distorted, to boot, and chucks it into space to land where it has no business to be; and yet after all this it cannot destroy the original spirit of the music; it can only demonstrate its own senseless mechanism, its inane meddling and marring.†   (source)
  • "Ah don't wanna break in "n" meddle where Ah ain" got no bisness, suh," the preacher said in a tone that was militant, but deferring.†   (source)
  • Well, she'd grown up since then and she'd just as soon as not tell her to go to the devil if she meddled in affairs at Tara.†   (source)
  • her grounds for civil or tribal action would not only blast the little dream-woman out of the dovecote but leave her irrevocably husbanded (and himself, husband or fiance, already safely cuckolded before she can draw breath) with the abstract carcass of outrage and revenge; who said it and was free now, forever more now of threat or meddling from anyone since he had at last eliminated the last member of his late wife's family, free now: son fled to Texas or California or maybe even South America, daughter doomed to spinsterhood to live until he died, since after that it wouldn't matter, in that rotting house, caring for him and feeding him, raising chickens and peddling the eggs fo†   (source)
  • He was already late, because he had had to give them time to get to sleep after all the uproar about the heifer, the uproar which the woman had caused by meddling after it was all over, settled for the night, anyway.†   (source)
  • Old Flathead, empty-headed meddler, know That I am proud possessing such appendice.†   (source)
  • Well, sew yourself up in it, bully boy, and then you'll be sure to know if anybody meddles with it.†   (source)
  • It's not my place to meddle with property as come by express an' all accounted fer regular.†   (source)
  • They've got their way o' thinkin' an' doin' things an' a body had better not meddle.†   (source)
  • THE FLOWER GIRL [still nursing her sense of injury] Ain't no call to meddle with me, he ain't.†   (source)
  • It's very wrong in a little girl to meddle.†   (source)
  • Though I don't think she would have meddled.†   (source)
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