interposition

How To Use interposition In A Sentence

• That if the sole reasonable occasion of the interposition of the Court in this case was the defendant's wife being then an infant, she was now of age, and present in Court, ready to give her consent that her husband should have the residue of her portion; which consent of hers before a judge, upon a fine, would devest her of any real estate, a fortiori would such con - sent when given by her before the ZfOrd Chancellor himself, be Reports of cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery, and of some special cases adjudged in the Court of King's Bench [1695-1735]
• However, this dreadful purpose was prevented, partly by the interposition of his wife, whose aim was not the death but immurement of his daughter, and partly by the tears and supplication of the young gentlewoman herself, who protested, that, although the ceremony of the church had not been performed, she was contracted to Fathom by the most solemn vows, to witness which he invoked all the saints in heaven. The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
• The clouds, as if by Divine interposition, were entirely dispersed, and I was once more invited to the grateful task of repeating my observations.
• The storm that stopped the assault was a remarkable interposition of providence.
• 'I may be too easily alarmed; but, with the bustle and fuss my uncle makes about every thing he pursues, he seldom fails of carrying his point; and he is now elated with his success over the prudent and worldly-minded Mr Fitz-Owen, and believes his interposition would every where prove as infallible as it has done in hurrying up this marriage for Philippa.' The Old Manor House
• He wanted the love of women, but he wanted it without the interposition of his craft.
• Let people alone, and they will take care of themselves, and do it best; and if they do not, a sufficient punishment will follow their neglect, without the magistrate's interposition and penalties…
• The wounded of the enemy, numbering eleven, would have met with but short shrift at the hands of their captors, but for the interposition of the man whom I have termed our timoneer, who seemed to be a petty chief. A Middy of the Slave Squadron A West African Story
• Palissot, * at sixty years old, was destined to expiate in a prison a satire upon Rousseau, written when he was only twenty, and escaped, not by the interposition of justice, but by the efficacity of a bon mot. A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners
• These Sheikhs are a peculiar institution in the Soudan; they are supposed to be men under the special protection of a particular angel of God, whose interposition is effected by the Sheikh having isolated himself for eight or nine hours daily during a term of years, and constantly repeating all that time one of the ninety-nine names of God. Three Months in the Soudan