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Nicholas Nickleby
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- 'Hush, Kate my dear,' interposed Mrs Nickleby; 'your uncle must know best.'†
Chpt 3 *
- The recollection of past pleasure may become pain—' 'It does,' interposed the other.†
Chpt 6
- 'I don't intend to, I assure you,' interposed Mrs S. 'That's right,' said Squeers; 'and if he has a touch of pride about him, as I think he has, I don't believe there's woman in all England that can bring anybody's spirit down, as quick as you can, my love.'†
Chpt 9
- 'I understood from Mr Squeers that—' 'Oh yes; it's all right,' interposed Miss Squeers.†
Chpt 9
- 'I beg your pardon,' interposed Miss Squeers, hastening to do the honours.†
Chpt 9
- 'Your poor brother—' 'My poor brother, ma'am,' interposed Ralph tartly, 'had no idea what business was—was unacquainted, I verily believe, with the very meaning of the word.'†
Chpt 10
- I would rather you dropped the subject, Phib; at the same time, I must say, that if 'Tilda Price would take pattern by somebody—not me particularly—' 'Oh yes; you, miss,' interposed Phib.†
Chpt 12
- 'Noa!' interposed John Browdie, in a tone of compassion; for he was a giant in strength and stature, and Nicholas, very likely, in his eyes, seemed a mere dwarf; 'dean't say thot.'†
Chpt 13
- ' '"Adore him," I said, uncle,' interposed Mrs Kenwigs.†
Chpt 14
- 'Oh, you're not going, Mr Lillyvick, sir,' interposed Miss Petowker, with her most bewitching smile.†
Chpt 15
- 'Pick out very light ones, if you please, young man,' interposed a genteel female, in shepherd's-plaid boots, who appeared to be the client.†
Chpt 16
- 'Good,' interposed Mr Gregsbury.†
Chpt 16
- 'I beg your pardon,' interposed Nicholas, doubtful whether he had heard aright.†
Chpt 16
- He would resent an affront to himself, or interpose to redress a wrong offered to another, as boldly and freely as any knight that ever set lance in rest; but he lacked that peculiar excess of coolness and great-minded selfishness, which invariably distinguish gentlemen of high spirit.†
Chpt 16interpose = insert between other elements; or to interrupt or stop action by others
- 'She will not take poison, because she had a demd fine husband who might have married two countesses and a dowager—' 'Two countesses,' interposed Madame.†
Chpt 17
- 'Never saw them!' interposed Miss Knag.†
Chpt 17
- 'She is not quite so accustomed to her business, as she will be in a week or two,' interposed Madame Mantalini with a gracious smile.†
Chpt 18
- 'I was coming to call for you, making sure to catch you before you left; but your mother and I have been talking over family affairs, and the time has slipped away so rapidly—' 'Well, now, hasn't it?' interposed Mrs Nickleby, quite insensible to the sarcastic tone of Ralph's last remark.†
Chpt 19
- 'On your lordship's circumstances,' interposed Colonel Chowser of the Militia—and the race-courses.†
Chpt 19
- 'I tell you this,' replied Ralph, 'that if I brought her here, as a matter of business—' 'Ay, that's the word,' interposed Sir Mulberry, with a laugh.†
Chpt 19
- 'Then all I have to say about that is,' interposed Miss La Creevy, 'that I don't envy you your taste; and that sitting in the same room with his very boots, would put me out of humour for a fortnight.'†
Chpt 20
- 'First, of attacking your master, and being within an ace of qualifying yourself to be tried for murder,' interposed Ralph.†
Chpt 20
- 'It is all over; there will be nothing the matter; money shall be got in; and if it don't come in fast enough, old Nickleby shall stump up again, or have his jugular separated if he dares to vex and hurt the little—' 'Hush!' interposed Madame.†
Chpt 21
- Henry, my dear,' interposed Mrs Wititterly.†
Chpt 21
- She is excited by the opera, the drama, the fine arts, the—the—the—' 'The nobility, my love,' interposed Mrs Wititterly.†
Chpt 21
- 'Yes,' said Sir Mulberry, 'he knew she was a smart little creature—' 'Smart!' interposed the young lord.†
Chpt 26
- 'Julia, my life,' interposed Mr Wititterly, 'you are deceiving his lordship—unintentionally, my lord, she is deceiving you.†
Chpt 27
- Kate waited until Sir Tumley Snuffim had paid his visit and looked in with a report, that, through the special interposition of a merciful Providence (thus spake Sir Tumley), Mrs Wititterly had gone to sleep.†
Chpt 28
- 'Pray, pa, don't,' interposed Miss Snevellicci.†
Chpt 30
- I never could have believed—' 'Pardon me,' interposed Nicholas.†
Chpt 32
- Therefore—' 'Therefore,' interposed Nicholas, 'the quarter's salary must be lost, sir.†
Chpt 33
- Mr Mantalini had got by this time into the passage, and was making his way to the door of Ralph's office with very little ceremony, when Newman interposed his body; and hinting that Mr Nickleby was unwilling to be disturbed, inquired whether the client's business was of a pressing nature.†
Chpt 34
- 'That it happened this way—that your nephew met him at a coffeehouse, fell upon him with the most demneble ferocity, followed him to his cab, swore he would ride home with him, if he rode upon the horse's back or hooked himself on to the horse's tail; smashed his countenance, which is a demd fine countenance in its natural state; frightened the horse, pitched out Sir Mulberry and himself, and—' 'And was killed?' interposed Ralph with gleaming eyes.†
Chpt 34
- —to pretend now not to know that it was the little bright-eyed niece—the softest, sweetest, prettiest—' 'Alfred!' interposed Madame Mantalini.†
Chpt 34
- As he appeared in a most extraordinary condition of restless excitement, and whenever Nicholas offered to speak, immediately interposed with: 'Don't say another word, my dear sir, on any account—not another word,' the young man thought it better to attempt no further interruption.†
Chpt 35
- Your great-uncle, Lillyvick, my dears!' interposed Mr Kenwigs, condescendingly explaining it to the children.†
Chpt 36
- 'Nay, David, nay,' interposed brother Charles.†
Chpt 37
- I—I—came,' said Ralph, speaking more slowly, and with harsher emphasis, 'I came to say how grieved I am that any relative of mine, although disowned by me, should have inflicted such punishment on you as—' 'Punishment!' interposed Sir Mulberry.†
Chpt 38
- 'Ah, sir!' interposed Squeers, confronting him again.†
Chpt 38
- But will you permit me, fairest creature, to ask you one question, in the absence of the planet Venus, who has gone on business to the Horse Guards, and would otherwise—jealous of your superior charms—interpose between us?'†
Chpt 41interpose = insert between other elements; or to interrupt or stop action by others
- 'Lor, John!' interposed his pretty wife, colouring very much.†
Chpt 42
- 'I say,' interposed John Browdie, nettled by these accumulated attacks on his wife, 'dra' it mild, dra' it mild.'†
Chpt 42
- 'John!' interposed his wife, 'don't tease her.'†
Chpt 42
- 'I can't do that,' interposed Brooker.†
Chpt 44
- 'Stop,' interposed Ralph, as Snawley was about to speak.†
Chpt 45
- The conversation threatened to take a somewhat angry tone when it had arrived thus far, but Mrs Crummles opportunely interposed to prevent its leading to any violent outbreak, by making some inquiries of the literary gentleman relative to the plots of the six new pieces which he had written by contract to introduce the African Knife-swallower in his various unrivalled performances.†
Chpt 48
- 'Kate,' interposed Mrs Nickleby with severe dignity, 'I am surprised at you.'†
Chpt 49
- Captain Adams,' said the young lord, looking hurriedly about him, and addressing one of those who had interposed, 'let me speak with you, I beg.'†
Chpt 50
- It was a profligate haunt of the worst repute, and not a place in which such an affair was likely to awaken any sympathy for either party, or to call forth any further remonstrance or interposition.†
Chpt 50
- 'It made ma cry when she knew it,' interposed Miss Morleena, 'but we kept it from her for a long time; and pa was very low in his spirits, but he is better now; and I was very ill, but I am better too.'†
Chpt 52
Definitions:
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(1)
(interpose) to insert between other elements; or to interrupt or stop action by others
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)