How To Use Interpose In A Sentence

Here the lady thought fit to interpose, and tell the catchpole, if he had taken her word for it at first, he might have saved himself and her a great deal of trouble. The Adventures of Roderick Random
God interposed death
We were summoned back to the dining room where the investigation would commence, and we would both hear the evidence against each of the suspects and interpose with our own questions.
She interposed herself between the general and his wife.
In these rooms there should be panels above the dadoes, worked in black, and polished, with yellow ochre or vermilion blocks interposed between them. The Ten Books on Architecture

‘You are not trying a more difficult spell,’ Smith interposed forcefully.
Lainey leaned toward her husband, as if she wanted to interpose herself between them. FAMILY PICTURES
Hoot toot, Mistress Findlay," interposed Malcolm, as his grandfather strode from the door; "ye maunna forget 'at he's auld an' blin '; an' a 'heelan' fowk's some kittle (touchy) about their legs. Malcolm
He interposed, ‘Even if it doesn't knock you down, do you still feel it?’
She interposed herself between the general and his wife.
An independent sovereignty was thus interposed between the two divisions of his kingdom.
The pulse quickens at the sight of the low range of hills which interpose themselves between the fields and the Libyan Desert - the final resting places of the pharaohs and their families.
No ye don't, ye young laddy-buck," he interposed, as St. Vincent started to take Frona down the hill, "'Tis her foster-daddy sees her home this night. CHAPTER 16
Cajal, on the other hand, believes that the neuroglia cells are contractile, and may expand so as to interpose their branches as insulating material between the synapses formed by the dendrites of the nerve cells. Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898
We may conjecture that this place was the Resen, or Dase, of Holy Scripture, which is said to have been a large city, interposed between Nineveh and Calah. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.
Mrs Constable interposed with one single emphatic epithet, not admittable to the ears of this generation; but Andrew resumed, and went on. Alec Forbes of Howglen
Suppose that, although a vase is directly in front of S, a laser photograph is interposed between it and S, thereby blocking it from S's view.
Now again an angel might interpose, between Abraham and his maundering delusion that he must slaughter his second son, Isaac.
_Muscovy-glass_; and you may very easily change any of the Colours of any part of the interposed body, by pressing the Plates closer and harder together, or leaving them more lax; that is, a part which appeared coloured with a red, may be presently ting'd with a yellow, blew, green, purple, or the like, by altering the appropinquation of the terminating Plates. Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon
(I interpose that it must have been saved again to the hard disk after the last recorded printing in order for the latter to appear on the record on the hard disk).
Interposed between the epiphysis and the diaphysis is the cartilaginous epiphyseal plate.
I should interpose that there was some doubt on the evidence that the money to be provided by S & F for the purchase consideration under the share sale agreement ever did move in its pre-determined circle.
It lies within the Valley and Ridge physiographic province which is characterized by a predominance of dolomite and limestone interposed with shale and sandstone.
In his later years he was fully informed of the choices being made, but interposed no public objection as his edifice of dreams was systematically reduced to rubble.
An insulator layer is interposed between each end plate and the adjacent end electrode.
Carroll called the given words doublets, the interposed words links, and the complete series a chain.
For all subjects, a rest period of at least 60 seconds was interposed between the two 96 trial blocks.
“So that you would have me shown up as a coward, sir, and our name dishonoured for the sake of Miss Swartz’s money,” George interposed. Vanity Fair
Your Honour, with my friend's consent, might I interpose to hand up to the Court three documents.
At least one starter switch is interposed between the starter and the starter battery.
We hope to break down the wall which we feel has been interposed between the reading public and the material of our individualities - our poems, our fiction - and to build in its place a fence.
He contented himself with turning aside thrusts and meeting blows with a clever guard, as some Cavalier tried to reach him, while twice over he found another sword interposed on his behalf. Crown and Sceptre A West Country Story
I have, as a great modern said, seen too many ghosts to believe in them, so betook myself seriously to my repose, lulled by the wind rustling among the lime-trees, the branches of which chequered the moonlight which fell on the floor through the diamonded casement, when, behold, a darker shadow interposed itself, and I beheld visibly on the floor of the apartment — The Fortunes of Nigel
Not all owing to that, chippy," interposed "General" Nix, as he had immediately been christened by the miners -- "not all owing to that. Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills
Here is The Guardian's Jackie Ashley struggling to get Mel to say what she wants her to say and when she can't she just interposes words like 'disembowelled': On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Needless to say, these same critics will then have new objections to interpose.
Neutral density filters should then be interposed to reduce light intensity.
I interpose: he had been a moderate but regular smoker to about 1991.
I interpose that the overall height, according to that question, is therefore the height of the four antennae on the support beam.
This is why there is only one spiration; the spiration is always from the Father; but the Son is with the Father in the Spirit's being breathed forth by the Father, and thus distinctively interposes without detriment to the Spirit's full Godhead. Archive 2007-05-01
Proxy servers can be interposed between users and the web at large to insulate users from pernicious attacks via the web.
He tells us that such was the corruption of faith and of morals towards the close of their brief day, that had not the Saxon sword interposed; plague, pestilence, or famine, or some similar calamity, must have done the fatal work. Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune
The green and fertile region, which is thus interposed between the "highland" and the "lowland" deserts, participates, curiously enough, in both characters. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.
But the race is not always to the swift; honest art and noble jockeyship have interposed; Firetail has been distanced, Blacklegs fallen lame, and Potatooooooo run the wrong side of the post: — then comes a reckoning, a dreadful reckoning; empty pocket-books, — bankers accounts, — exhausted credit, — bets to be be paid the moment of arrival in town. Francis, the Philanthropist: an unfashionable tale
Between head and pillow, a hard rectangle was interposed, the marbled cardboard of a notebook, sea-green.
Would the anxieties which weigh upon her like mountains interpose between the Queen and the jealous rancour which is too petty for her great soul? Cleopatra — Complete
Between head and pillow, a hard rectangle was interposed, the marbled cardboard of a notebook, sea-green.
A bursa, which usually communicates with the cavity of the knee-joint, is situated between the femur and the portion of the Quadriceps tendon above the patella; another is interposed between the tendon and the upper part of the front of the tibia; and a third, the prepatellar bursa, is placed over the patella itself. IV. Myology. 8b. The Muscles and Fasciæ of the Thigh
Fibers of the optic and auditory radiations are interposed between the lentiform nucleus above and the temporal horn of the lateral ventricle below.
Police had to interpose themselves between the two rival groups.
France, Germany, Italy and Spain, were interposed, walls yet without a breach, between us and the plague.
Ah, George," interposed the more pacable younger brother, "you ought to forget and forgive. The Virginians
This may be referred either to the immediately foregoing verse, That you faint not, &c., or, rather, the apostle is here resuming what he began at the first verse, from which he digressed in those which are interposed. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
`Ah, now we're getting at the truth,' he interposed sarcastically
“It is hardly for me,” said the physician, “to interpose in so high a matter; yet, as trusted both by the noble Ursel, and by his Highness the Emperor, I have made a brief abstract of these short conditions to be kept by the high parties towards each other, sub crimine falsi.” Count Robert of Paris
Here I interposed and said to them: If you two were having an argument about equitation and what was the best way of riding, supposing that I knew the art myself, I should try to bring you to an agreement. Eryxias
Jerusalem, at the mount called the Mount of Olives, which lies over against the city on the east side, and is parted from it by a deep valley, interposed between them, which is named Cedron. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03
Let any thing intervene between the stream and the fountain, and it is cut off and dried up; let any thing be interposed between the sun and the beam, and it evanishes. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
At last the manager interposed with a polite explanation: Ladies and gentlemen, this is jazz. A Renegade History of the United States
A reflective liquid crystal display device includes a pair of transparent plates, a liquid crystal layer interposed between the pair of plates, and a light-shielding layer provided on one of the plates.
The government took positive interpose step to bond management at that time.
The latter, a clumsy heavy affair beyond the strength of an ordinary man, was being deftly interposed between himself and the attacks of the possessor of the angry voice by a gigantic young riverman in the conventional stagged (i.e., chopped off) trousers, "cork" shoes, and broad belt typical of his craft. The Blazed Trail
Lainey leaned toward her husband, as if she wanted to interpose herself between them. FAMILY PICTURES
‘He's a businessman, he has to be that way,’ Simon quietly interposed.
I concluded, therefore, said Brugmans, that if the iron plates were interposed between the magnet and the needle lengthways, instead of breadthways or right across, the action of the magnet on the magnetic needle would, in consequence of this great increase of resistance, become still weaker, or perhaps evanescent. Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life.
That's all right, Daylight," one Curly Parson interposed soothingly. Chapter IX
It & ; am # 39 very impolite to interpose in such a formal seminar.
A great number of the flying-fox, or vampire bat, hung from the casuarina trees in this enclosure, but the natives interposed to prevent our firing at them, the place being tabued. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 539, March 24, 1832
The militia committee was ordered to draw up a declaration in justification of all that the civic authorities had done, whilst a letter was sent (28 July) to Fairfax deprecating any attempt by the army to "intermeddle" with the liberties or privileges of the city or to interpose in the matter of the militia, which should be used only in defence of parliament and the city without giving occasion for offence to anyone. London and the Kingdom - Volume II
It was admitted, that in case the guardians should misbehave, the Court might interpose, upon a presumption, that the testator himself would not have entrusted the guardians with this power, had he foreseen they would have abused it.
Would not the prolix pages and omnifarious columns of every journal of the day interpose a direct negative? North Carolina University Magazine, Volume 1 Number 1, February 1852
Lainey leaned toward her husband, as if she wanted to interpose herself between them. FAMILY PICTURES
An independent sovereignty was thus interposed between the two divisions of his kingdom.
Affected regions are characterized by a lacelike pattern of adipose infiltration, progressing from epicardium toward the endocardium, and by interposed streams of normal or slightly atrophie myocytes.
Deep in his throat, in an animal-like way, Hans's rage still rumbled, and several times he made as though to spring back upon his prey and was only prevented by the woman's swiftly interposed body. THE UNEXPECTED
He quickly interposed himself between Mel and the doorway.
I interpose that in the course of the trial it emerged from the court interpreter that the Greek word used for ‘cut’ and broken in the sense of ‘parted’ or ‘severed’ is the same.
The person," interposed "Cobbler" Horn, "to whom I wish to leave my property is my little daughter, Marian, who wandered away twelve years ago, and has never been heard of since. The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn
Our Ministers dare not interpose with dignity or effect.
“But you should penalise father, too,” interpose Beth. The God's Domain
The green and fertile region which is thus interposed between the 'highland' and 'lowland' deserts, [3] participates, curiously enough, in both characters. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1
The high speed of two regions economy grows, greatly the interpose with profit from strong government.
So that you would have me shown up as a coward, sir, and our name dishonoured for the sake of Miss Swartzs money, George interposed. XXI. A Quarrel about an Heiress
He doesn't know much about it, if he calls a wigwam a wampum," interposed Miss Smith, with still greater pertness. A Fair Barbarian
The work interposes a glass plate between two large circular mirrors.
She interposed herself between the general and his wife.
Who am I to interpose in the delicately poised quadrille of consumers and the fulfillers of dreams?
“We've heard your sob story before,” the lawyer said as he interposed himself between the farmer and his client. Jack Garner, Parsley Farmer
The Count — except for the sake of my dulcinea, what was it to me whether the old coward whom I had seen, in an ague of terror before the brawling Colonel, interposed or not? The Room in the Dragon Volant
In the enhancer-blocking assay, candidate elements are tested for their ability to prevent enhancer-promoter interaction when interposed between an enhancer and a promoter.
For there is a very marked groove in every such skull, as in the human skull -- which indicates the line of attachment of what is termed the 'tentorium' -- a sort of parchment-like shelf, or partition, which, in the recent state, is interposed between the cerebrum and cerebellum, and prevents the former from pressing upon the latter. On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals
Her temper is beyond imagination, her avarice monstrous, her madness about what she calls cleanliness, to a degree of distraction; if I had not first, and then made your brother Ned interpose in form, she would once or twice a week have the very closet washed in which your brother sleeps after dinner. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
In the decussation of the pyramids, the bundles of corticospinal fibers are interposed between the ventral gray matter and the central gray substance.
I interpose to note that stage 1 is when the facts are found and stage 2 is when the panel decide whether they amount to serious professional misconduct and what the appropriate penalty should be if they do.
“Ah, George,” interposed the more pacable younger brother, “you ought to forget and forgive.” The Virginians
Thus, for example, a liver that is palpable may not be detected by percussion, if, as occasionally happens, a segment of colon is interposed between the liver and the abdominal wall.
Police had to interpose themselves between the two rival groups.
The reporter interposed a few questions into the minister's speech.
The term Family was interposed between Order and Genus, in keeping with Linnaeus' conception of the divine society of nature.
Yet here, as many another time in these devious manoeuvres, that fearful dilemma interposed -- inseparable in its many forms from all collective action whether in cabinet or party; so fit to test to the very uttermost all the moral fortitude, all the wisdom of a minister, his sense of proportion, his strength of will, his prudent pliancy of judgment, his power of balance, his sure perception of the ruling fact. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859
So that you would have me shown up as a coward, sir, and our name dishonoured for the sake of Miss Swartz's money," George interposed. Vanity Fair
The CD-R uses a dye layer with a relatively low optical absorbance at the recording wavelength; this layer is interposed between the grooved substrate and a highly reflective layer of silver or gold.
The second dimension of the social history of pixels is how they came to be interposed between us and the world, generating reality as they reflect it.
Achilles Tatius, who was a heedful observer of all these passages, saw with alarm, that by the last collocation the armed Latins were interposed between the Immortal Guards and the discontented citizens, which made it most probable that the conspiracy was discovered, and that Alexius found he had a good right to reckon upon the assistance of Tancred and his forces in the task of suppressing it. Count Robert of Paris
Stacey quickly interposed as she snatched the trench coat away from Janet before she could put it on.
The reversed currents are, then, arrested during their passage; and, in order to collect them, it becomes necessary to considerably diminish the gaseous pressure of the aeriform conductor interposed in the discharge; to increase its conductivity; or to open to the current a very resistant metallic derivation. Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882
The child says: Sacred interpose ignore between Yu Nan's person and woman!
“The Americans have plentifully enjoyed the delights and comforts, as well as the necessaries of life,” said the Newport Mercury, “and it is well known that an increase of wealth and affluence paves the way to an increase of luxury, immorality and profaneness, and here kind providence interposes; and as it were, obliges them to forsake the use of one of their delights, to preserve their liberty.” A Renegade History of the United States
On a glass plate placed on a leveled stand, is laid a sheet of paper previously wetted, which is then flattened into contact with an India rubber squeegee, taking care to remove the air bubbles interposed. Photographic Reproduction Processes
Civilization is pernicious also because it interposes a veil of artificiality between the individual and the natural objects of experience.
It must interpose likewise in the matter of industry, and exclude that antagonistical principle of competition -- the poisoned fount of so much virulence, violence and ruin. Edmond Dantès
A constant motif is a flashback to a field of wheat, interposed suddenly and incongruously in various scenes.
And the specialist system itself, in which specialists firms are interposed between buyers and sellers, it is likely, it seems to me, to come under severe attack.
Among the economic élite the fear spread that the USSR would interpose between the defeat of Germany and the Anglo-Saxon victory with consequences which would be felt both inside and outside Italy.
The structure of the Constitution interposes obstacles by design, in order to prevent the arrogation of power by one branch or one sovereign. ObamaCare's Latest Judicial Defeat
Often perplexing to new or non-hoopers, I define this quality as a state in which the hoopdancer’s movements radiate unimpeded from a fully integrated place – no veil of self-consciousness or doubt interposes between the dancer and the movement. Hooping.org | Blog | Inside The Hoop: Ann Humphreys
After assembly of the coupling using the method of the present invention, a terminal end of the flexible hose is interposed between the terminal end of the rigid pipe and the clamping ring.
Lady Feng thereupon egressed from the room in the inner end and interposed her remarks. Hung Lou Meng
In this system, many things are interposed between Christ and the sinner, such as meritorious works, sacramentalism and mediation by Mary and the ‘saints’.
_breadthways_; and in this case it will be found that the needle, which had been previously deflected by the magnet from its natural position at one of its poles, will instantly resume the same, either wholly or very nearly so — then to interpose the same piece of iron _lengthways_; in which case the position of the compass needle will be scarcely or not at all affected. Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life.
And while the new ‘central processing’ division may occasionally staple relevant memos together, it is another layer of bureaucracy interposed between the eye and the brain.
Mr. Mudd would have interposed; and it seemed some command of temper in the paity, that they did not proceed tp corporal punishment; but Lady Elma was the poor girr» The Countess and Gertrude; Or, Modes of Discipline
The chevalier, unterrified by this dreadful salutation, desired he would accompany him to a more convenient place; and the world might have been deprived of one or both these knights-errant, had not General Macleaver, at the desire of his majesty, interposed, and found means to bring matters to an accommodation. The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
History, 'wherein he says, "And besides I practice as I do advise; which is, after long inquiry of things immersed in matter, to interpose some subject which is immateriate or less materiate; such as this of sounds: to the end that the intellect may be rectified and become not partial. A Book About Lawyers
Henry Field, with a word interposed, which, as Lance said, might be anything, but was certainly the right length for the first syllables of Merrifield. Modern Broods

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