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interpose
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Little Dorrit
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- When a wife's relations interpose against a husband who is a gentleman, who is proud, and who must govern, the consequences are inimical to peace.†
Chpt 1.1 *interpose = insert between other elements; or to interrupt or stop action by others
- Still so recoiling in her chair that her overpoised weight moved it, from time to time, a little on its wheels, and gave her the appearance of a phantom of fierce aspect gliding away from him, she interposed her left arm, bent at the elbow with the back of her hand towards her face, between herself and him, and looked at him in a fixed silence.†
Chpt 1.5
- It was a comfortable room, handsomely furnished in the higher official manner; an presenting stately suggestions of the absent Barnacle, in the thick carpet, the leather-covered desk to sit at, the leather-covered desk to stand at, the formidable easy-chair and hearth-rug, the interposed screen, the torn-up papers, the dispatch-boxes with little labels sticking out of them, like medicine bottles or dead game, the pervading smell of leather and mahogany, and a general bamboozling air of How not to do it.†
Chpt 1.10
- You did not mean it—' 'I won't have it!' interposed the contradictory Jeremiah, flinging back the concession.†
Chpt 1.15
- He had palaces, and he had—' 'Hospitals,' interposed Maggy, still nursing her knees.†
Chpt 1.24
- She said, too, that nobody missed it, that nobody was the worse for it, that Some one had gone on, to those who were expecting him—' 'Some one was a man then?' interposed Maggy.†
Chpt 1.24
- The sunset flush was so bright on Little Dorrit's face when she came thus to the end of her story, that she interposed her hand to shade it.†
Chpt 1.24
- Mrs Plornish here interposed with great condescension, and explained to Mr Baptist.†
Chpt 1.25
- 'Now that is so far,' said Arthur, 'from being the case, that I know Mr Meagles to be unhappy in this matter; and to have interposed all reasonable obstacles with the hope of putting an end to it.'†
Chpt 1.26
- 'I beg and entreat you, ma'am—' Arthur interposed.†
Chpt 1.26
- 'I think my friend would say, Miss Wade,' Arthur Clennam interposed, seeing Mr Meagles rather at a loss, 'for the passionate sense that sometimes comes upon the poor girl, of being at a disadvantage.†
Chpt 1.27
- Poor Mr Meagles's inexpressible consternation in hearing his motives and actions so perverted, had prevented him from interposing any word until now; but now he regained the power of speech.†
Chpt 1.27
- The stranger, however, picking up her cap with an air of gallantry, interposed.†
Chpt 1.30
- Maggy looked round of a sudden, and stared for at least a minute; but did not interpose.†
Chpt 1.32interpose = insert between other elements; or to interrupt or stop action by others
- His right was now clear, nothing interposed in his way, the Marshalsea gates stood open, the Marshalsea walls were down, a few flourishes of his pen, and he was extremely rich.†
Chpt 1.35
- The elderly lady, who was a model of accurate dressing, and whose manner was perfect, considered as a piece of machinery, here interposed a remark in a low soft voice.†
Chpt 2.1
- Mr Dorrit now interposed, at once to stop these painful subjects by his authority, and to point their moral by his wisdom.†
Chpt 2.3
- 'Mrs General,' said Mr Dorrit, 'I took the liberty—' 'By no means,' Mrs General interposed.†
Chpt 2.5
- 'Martigny,' interposed Miss Fanny with an air of infinite languor.†
Chpt 2.5
- my dearest Meagles!' returned the lady, tapping him on the arm with the green fan and then adroitly interposing it between a yawn and the company, 'how can you, as a man of the world and one of the most business-like of human beings—for you know you are business-like, and a great deal too much for us who are not—' (Which went to the former purpose, by making Mr Meagles out to be an artful schemer.)†
Chpt 2.8
- Mr Meagles interposed to prevent that consummation.†
Chpt 2.8
- 'I am sure, Fanny,' Little Dorrit interposed in her zealous admiration, 'no one need find that out in you.'†
Chpt 2.14
- 'I am convinced, my dear Amy,' said Mr Sparkler, 'that if ever there was a girl, next to your highly endowed and beautiful sister, who had no nonsense about her—' 'We know all about that, Edmund,' interposed Miss Fanny.†
Chpt 2.14
- I hardly know what I should have done,' said Fanny, 'if you had interposed any objection, Mrs General.'†
Chpt 2.15
- His old sweetheart, being in fact so near at hand that she was then reclining against him in a flutter, a very substantial angle of forty-five degrees, here interposed to assure Mistress Affery with greater earnestness than directness of asseveration, that what she heard should go no further, but should be kept inviolate, 'if on no other account on Arthur's—sensible of intruding in being too familiar Doyce and Clennam's.'†
Chpt 2.23
- As to the impression on his mind, of which he had just relieved it—here John interposed, and said, 'No impression!†
Chpt 2.27
- Mr Plornish, as being of a more laconic temperament, embraced this opportunity of interposing with the suggestion that she should now leave Mr Clennam to himself.†
Chpt 2.27
- Hearing that I was your professional adviser, he declined to interpose before my very limited function was performed.†
Chpt 2.28interpose = insert between other elements; or to interrupt or stop action by others
- 'Signore!' interposed Cavalletto, also addressing Arthur: 'for to commence, hear me!†
Chpt 2.28
- 'Unless you are a more obstinate and more persisting woman than even I know you to be,' Mr Flintwinch interposed, 'you had better leave Mr Rigaud, Mr Blandois, Mr Beelzebub, to tell it in his own way.†
Chpt 2.30
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)