All 9 Uses of
intrusion
in
Bleak House
- We both felt intrusive and out of place, and we both thought that Mrs. Pardiggle would have got on infinitely better if she had not had such a mechanical way of taking possession of people.†
Chpt 7-9 *
- Here, beneath the painted ceiling, with foreshortened Allegory staring down at his intrusion as if it meant to swoop upon him, and he cutting it dead, Mr. Tulkinghorn has at once his house and office.†
Chpt 10-12
- Sir Leicester and Lady Dedlock, as I have already apologized for intruding on you, I cannot do better than be very brief.†
Chpt 28-30
- Sir Leicester in his gallantry retires, rather declining to accept a bow from the young man as he goes out and majestically supposing him to be some shoemaker of intrusive appearance.†
Chpt 28-30
- "We won't intrude any longer if you'll allow us to go upstairs."†
Chpt 37-39
- Allan hopes Mr. George will forgive his intrusion the more readily on that account, and particularly that he will not lay aside his pipe, which, in his politeness, he has testified some intention of doing.†
Chpt 46-48
- He comes now, apologizing for intruding, even by her permission, while she is at table.†
Chpt 46-48
- And even to the point of his sinking on the ground, oblivious of his suffering, he can yet pronounce her name with something like distinctness in the midst of those intrusive sounds, and in a tone of mourning and compassion rather than reproach.†
Chpt 52-54
- Jarndyce and Miss Summerson," said he, rather out of breath, "with all apologies for intruding, WILL you allow me to order up a person that's on the stairs and that objects to being left there in case of becoming the subject of observations in his absence?†
Chpt 61-63
Definition:
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(intrusion) an involvement or interruption that is unwelcome