How To Use Meddle In A Sentence
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Etherington judge of him, and what an ass was I to intermeddle! —
Saint Ronan's Well
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Under Pragmatic(al) she read; meddlesome, positive, dictatorial (she snorted, irritably).
BEHINDLINGS
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Politicians or other misguided do-gooders won't be able to meddle.
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How to make doing nothing - indeed REFUSING to "meddle" - look as though it is a real act of leadership.
OPEN THREAD
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But to Barry, he could seem like just another meddlesome boss.
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The complainant was an officious intermeddler, a busybody, the town scold, an anti-Christian activist named Darren Lund who had an axe to grind, and Andreachuk gave it to him.
Ezra Levant: June 2008 Archives
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For too long we have had too many people who are unaccountable with a licence to meddle in people 's lives.
The Sun
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'meddlesome' and threatens a 'crushing' response should Obama continue to meddle in Iranian affairs.
Blue Star Chronicles
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It is a decent enough trade; plenty of people with fine titles meddle with it.
Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II.
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The sensitive plant is too vulgar an allusion; but if the truth of modern naturalists may be depended upon, there is a plant which, instead of receding timidly from the intrusive touch, angrily protrudes its venomous juices upon all who presume to meddle with it: – do not you think this plant would be your fittest emblem?
Letters for Literary Ladies: To Which is Added, An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification
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I will teach you to meddle in my affairs.
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Plenty of countries rightly 'meddled' in the affairs of the United States when they saw black children being blown down by powerful water hoses and attacked by dogs at civil rights marches.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Spectator of the Free World: Obama and Iran
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He had a hot temper and a weekly column in which he could publicly tear to shreds anyone who dared gainsay him or meddle with his works.
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it's my job to meddle," is more than equipped to tackle.
A Day Late and A Dollar Short by Terry McMillan: Questions
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I'm not the sort of newspaper owner who meddles with editorial policy.
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That we shouldn't meddle in other countries if our own country needs work is also a liberal idea.
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Before he entered that war, first he sent his messengers to the sultan of Egypt, requiring him not to intermeddle in that war.
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It was just another boring city, filled with meddlesome people and merchants who like to drag you to their stands against your wishes, insisting that you buy something outrageously overpriced.
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And just in case those meddlesome friends of Hugh's manage to get wind of what we've done, the sanitarium is the safest place she could be!
The Gates Of Sleep
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Wolfgang Wagner, who disinherited his brother's children and his own son to leave Bayreuth in the hands of two rival daughters, Eva and Katharina, was the last grandchild to be dandled on Cosima's meddlesome knee.
Keeper Of the Shrine
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Wouldn't it be a better idea, if the government is going to meddle in this matter at all, for them to find ways to make the city more affordable?
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With a less than brilliant director, ham actors and a meddlesome newcomer, will it ever reach opening night?
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Unrighteousness is unto sin; the sinful acts confirm and strengthen the sinful habits; one sin begets another; it is like the letting forth of water, therefore leave it before it be meddled with.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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To meddle or not to meddle, that is not the question...
OPEN THREAD
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And he is suspicious of attempts to meddle in the internal business of others.
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I was ridiculed and my work was called "meddler" "crazy," was pointed at as a fanatic.
The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation
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I do think the Government and its agencies have meddled far too long in the affairs of rugby.
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And there was afterwards writ a proper and careful treatise, and did set out that there did be ruptures of the Æther, the which did constitute doorways, as those more fanciful ones did name them; and through these shatterings, which might be likened unto openings -- there being no better word to their naming -- there did come into this Particular Condition Of Life, those Monstrous Forces Of Evil, that did dominate the Night, and which many did hold surely to have been given this improper entrance through the foolish and unwise wisdom of those olden men of learning, that did meddle overfar with matters that did reach in the end beyond their understanding.
The Night Land: Chapter 7
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And as for the Creede, no man may be so bolde as to meddle therewith but in the Church: for they say it shoulde not bee spoken of, but in the Churches.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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We are a village of people meddlesome in deliberating as well as pity knowledge relating to NYC Transit as good as transit around New York City as well as around a world.
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Matthew Cradock [first Governor of the Company] comes in, having had time to interplead, etc., and on his default judgment was given, that he should be convicted of the usurpation charged in the information, and that the said liberties, privileges and franchises should be taken and seized into the King's hands; the said Matthew not to intermeddle with and be excluded the use thereof, and the said Matthew to be taken to answer to the King for the said usurpation.
The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816
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They've been after t 'winders, and after t' vittle, and after t 'very saut to 't; it's dearer by hauf an' more nor it were when a were a boy: they're a meddlesome set o 'folks, law-makers is, an' a'll niver believe King George has ought t 'do wi' 't.
Sylvia's Lovers — Complete
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Now, with reckless abandon, it promises to meddle with local-government structure.
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Like Scrappy-Doo and Jar Jar Binks before him, this annoying elfin meddler deserves the slow, horrible death owed to such characters everywhere.
Which Harry Potter Character Gets Whacked?
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Her bearing, however, had a dignity and a decision which would make even Mrs. Marchmont hesitate before she "meddled" again.
From Jest to Earnest
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This lady was one of those modern inventions known as a frisky matron, and said and did all manner of dreadful things, which people winked at because -- she was Mrs Meddlechip, and eccentric.
Madame Midas
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The excellence of the intention is fully and readily recognised, but, for all practical purposes, the letter has received very much the same treatment at the hands of the Northern public as that usually assigned to intermeddlers in conjugal differences.
London, Saturday, September28, 1861.
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But even modern Maoris don't like to meddle with makutu.
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So a process that involves such meddling by a competent meddler is conceivable but I do not believe that natural forces alone would generate cells on a lifeless planet.
Bits and Pieces of an RNA World
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English (whom they principally suspected) were all safe below, and had not intermeddled in this mutiny; and by other particulars they at last discovered that none were concerned in it but Orellana and his people.
Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced
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Money has not been divided, it is meddlesome to nature of everybody of broad music copyright.
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Falsehood like a nettle stings those who meddle with it.
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Mark – The reason of why the SCOTUS exist is to be the highest judicial body in the USA, and if they have to 'meddle in people's lives' to do and be what they are meant to, so be it.
Sotomayor: Supreme Court might be able to take on more cases
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This lady was one of those modern inventions known as a frisky matron, and said and did all manner of dreadful things, which people winked at because — she was Mrs Meddlechip, and eccentric.
Madame Midas
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Ye daur meddle wi 'me," said Sandy, leering at him, for he had tasted deep of the national fluid.
The Kangaroo Marines
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Don't meddle in matters that don't concern you, unless you want to face the wrath of Rowan!
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She also warned other nations not to meddle in China's internal affairs.
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She had to do without the family she had relied on for her entire life: an overbearing, vicious mother, irritating brothers, meddlesome cousins, and so on.
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I don't want it to be tricky or messy, and I certainly don't want that meddlesome idiot in the way.
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And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Se'ir; Gen. 36.8 and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore: meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a footbreadth; because I have given mount Se'ir unto Esau for a possession.
Deuteronomy 2.
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The Fish and Wildlife Service is advocating a plan which is going to meddle with that.
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No other nation in the world is considering the kind of meddlesome regulation proposed by the European Parliament.
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Despite being out of office, he persisted in his meddlesome diplomatic gambits with his friends in Germany.
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If foreigners find the United States to be too meddlesome, it isn't because of our unmatched military power.
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Originally introduced as a potential love interest for both Dan and Nate as well as a one-time Bass boink, the hippy-harpy character has devolved from a borderline interesting counterpoint to all the glamour of her surroundings to a sniveling buttinsky with nothing better to do than meddle for the sole sake of spoiling everyone's fun.
Watercooler: Gossip Girl's Vanessa Needs to Go!
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The bear was walking softly on, and offered to meddle with nobody.
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Her antecedents were the rancorous, meddlesome Macedonian queens who routinely poisoned brothers and sent armies against sons.
Elizabeth Debold: Divine Feminine Alert
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Believe you me, the government won't meddle with the tax system.
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You jacknape, give-a dis letter to Sir Hugh; by gar, it is a challenge: I vill cut his troat in de Park; and I vill teach a scurvy jack-a-nape priest to meddle or make.
Act I. Scene IV. The Merry Wives of Windsor
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The first stage test which is applied on the application for leave will lead to a refusal if the applicant has no interest whatever and is in truth no more than a meddlesome busybody.
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These if-onlys seemed clever arguments at the time, because the administration kept thundering that diplomacy was for wimps and Congress was being meddlesome in trying to constrain the commander in chief.
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But I am very sure of this: that a vast majority of the men who make the world go round drink or have drunk; and that when at last the world comes to be governed by those who don't and haven't, it will be even worse governed, more pettily and meddlesomely, than it is at present.
We Three
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My meddle is definitely being tested in the Holy Land, where people still smoke in the malls (even though it’s technically illegal, but no one cares).
That Old Beast Nicotine, Revisited | Living the Liminal
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The French demanded that the nations “not intermeddle, unless they had a mind to draw all their force upon them.”
George Washington’s First War
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In answer to Tilden's protest against this treatment, Tweed loudly informed him that he represented no one but himself, that he had neither influence nor standing in the city, that he was an intermeddler with things that did not concern him, and a general nuisance.
My Memories of Eighty Years
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19, “And meddle not with such as flatter with their mouth,” as indeed commonly they who reproach the absent, flatter the present; a backbiter is a face-flatterer.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
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China's music-festival industry shares certain qualities with the country's other big businesses: huge potential, eye-popping expansion, rampant imitation, meddlesome government officials.
A Pioneer In Chinese Music Festivals
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But as man, when he shrinks from passing judgment on another, ever takes the better part; and as even with the best amongst us, the relation of the soul to God is a question which, of all others, should not be intermeddled with, assuredly we must leave
The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886
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He had a hot temper and a weekly column in which he could publicly tear to shreds anyone who dared gainsay him or meddle with his works.
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The car is the source of most of the laughs as it winks its headlights, smiles using its front bumper, and uses its trunk to conk meddlers on the head.
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Under his model, granters would work directly with grantees, sharing their business skills but resisting the temptation to meddle with program delivery.
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For too long we have had too many people who are unaccountable with a licence to meddle in people 's lives.
The Sun
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Are we meddlesome in anticipating alternative articles?
Having Wonderful Vacation by Going to Las Vegas Events | Arts and ...
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I dare not meddle with your plans.
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The programme leader for the archaeology BSc degree intermeddled in the exam marking process.
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Then there are some who are merely meddlesome and intrusive in the dressing room.
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And as for the third book, which treateth of the general and last destruction of Troy, it needeth not to translate it into English, for as much as that worshipful and religious man, Dan John Lidgate, monk of Bury, did translate it but late; after whose work I fear to take upon me, that am not worthy to bear his penner and ink-horn after him, to meddle me in that work.
Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations
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The Government has become more intrusive, more coercive, more meddlesome, and less effective.
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In the claim that “the security of the American people is inextricably linked to the security of all people,” they hear echoes of the universalist logic that led to the disaster in Vietnam and see a sweeping foreign policy that the rest of the world finds at best meddlesome and at worst menacingly imperialist.
Globaloney
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Once you are made bankrupt you cannot intermeddle in the property because the property is then in the hands of the trustee for the benefit of the creditors.
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Everything, from mugwumpery to the meddler's itch, from corns to crime, is now traced to the pernicious activity of some microbian.
The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.
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Then the judge was much abashed, and commanded to take quick lime and vinegar meddled together, and made it to avale into his throat, and after did do put out his eyes.
The Golden Legend, vol. 4
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Lord Prestonhall seems to have acted with the same unscrupulous spirit which characterizes most of the business transactions of those who intermeddled with the forfeited or disputed estates.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.
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Boston rowdies mob an English intermeddler with the ticklish matters of our national policy, and English rowdies mob an Austrian
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861
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Every man "voted," as they called it -- that is to say meddled with public affairs -- until at length, it was discovered that what is everybody's business is nobody's, and that the "Republic" (so the absurd thing was called) was without a government at all.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4
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Just another actor using their'celebrity' status to meddle in politics.
The Sun
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a duster and toddles about meddlesomely, spying out dust so diligently that whilst she is flicking off one speck she is already looking elsewhere for another.
The Doctor's Dilemma
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By this means the meddlesome woman cast in a bone between the wife and the husband.
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Oh, labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionably brutified!
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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He's a meddler; the kind of person who hasn't got the good sense to leave well enough alone.
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Get rid of that meddlesome fool!
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Although we have no right to intermeddle with the form of government of other nations, yet it is lawful to wish to see no emperors nor kings in our hemisphere, and that Brazil as well as Mexico will homologize with us. —
The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia
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This act of uncharitable stupidity can only be one thing: a way to keep meddlesome lefties and Patagonia-wearin 'bleedin'-hearts from observing what really happens during an emergency and telling anyone about it.
We got the last bottle of soco
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Martin Luther King invited them to meddle, which is why he repeatedly said,
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Don't meddle with the electrical wiring: you're not an electrician.
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She was, after all, only one meddlesome old woman.
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Bizos said Ben Menashe "meddled" in the U.S. presidential vote in 1980 and Australia's 1986 elections.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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He also gives the subsidiary characters - a dim married couple and a meddlesome mother-in-law - meaty roles whose farce is grounded in wry truth.
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But many think it was because he meddled in politics and posed a threat to President Putin.
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I am an atheist in life and I won't choose to have my memory blemished by anyone taking the freedom to meddle with my choices in life, neither with my memory afterlife.
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They have power also to put such national ministers, as in preaching shall intermeddle with matters of government, out of their livings, except the party appeals to the phylarch, or to the Council of Religion, where in that case the censors shall prosecute.
The Commonwealth of Oceana
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Vincent Canby in The New York Times wrote, “The intentions of McCabe and Mrs. Miller are not only serious, they are meddlesomely imposed on the film by tired symbolism… [that] keep[s] spoiling the fun of what might have been an uproarious frontier fable.”
STAR
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What you call the pedantry and priggishness and all the rest of it is exactly what poor Breckenridge asked almost on his knees, wonderful man, to be _allowed_ to pay you for; since even if the meddlers and chatterers haven't settled anything for those who know -- though which of the elect themselves after all _does_ seem to know?
The Outcry
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Politicians or other misguided do-gooders won't be able to meddle.
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Mrs. Jervis, and Jonathan too, joined in a body, in a bold appeal to Lady Davers, which has given her the insolent handle she has taken to intermeddle in my affairs, I could easily have forgiven all the rest of their conduct; though they have given their tongues no little license about me: But I could have forgiven them, because
Pamela
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Gongorism of many passages in Calderon's best pieces, their obscurity and extravagant bombast, should be charged to the account of a meddlesome collector and editor, that is, to Vera Tasis, and not to
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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My lord said, that, for his own part, he did not choose to meddle in money matters; that Mr. Pickle would find abundance of people ready to borrow it upon land security; but that he ought to be extremely cautious in a transaction of such consequence; promising, at the same time, to employ his own steward in seeking out a mortgager to whom it might be safely lent.
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
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An 'hyeh's another who meddles with thy servant and profanes thy day.
In Happy Valley
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For too long we have had too many people who are unaccountable with a licence to meddle in people 's lives.
The Sun
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As intermeddled > mixed in intendments > intentions (i.e. episodes which have an intentional bearing on the allegory)
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
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And the unthreatening image of the social worker who keeps families together is designed to tackle head-on the myth of the malevolent, child-snatching meddler that is all too prevalent in the public imagination.
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The broadcast will be live and unfiltered - unfiltered, at least, by meddlesome journalists.
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He promised to leave the country and not to meddle again in such manner, which he did and kept his word faithfully with me.
Documenting the American South, or, The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America
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Rarely, however, do discussions of this fact proceed beyond a verbal slapping ourselves on the wrists for having "meddled" to further our own interests.
Jon Santiago: Revisiting American Involvement in El Salvador: The Massacre at El Mozote
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We are the only people who account him that takes no share in politics, not as an intermeddler in nothing, but one who is good for nothing.
Mosaics of Grecian History
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The Grand Duke, Peter Leopold, the practical, economical, priest-hating, paternally-meddlesome, bustlingly and tyrannically-reforming son of Maria Theresa, was not the man to console so mediæval and antiquated and unphilosophical a thing as a Stuart.
The Countess of Albany
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Reporters are seen as uneducated meddlers, sticking their nose in where it does not belong.
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Christopher Jefferies was an eccentric 'meddler', say former tenants
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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It's so easy to not be "meddlesome" after a decision has been made by the deciders.
Sheila Weller: Beverly High, Oil Wells, Power Plants, Cancer: Disproven? Not So Fast
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It had not dawned on anyone at Amazon that they might need to plan for the numbers of warm bodies being brought on board—due to the continual state of emergency, no one had time for that kind of meddlesome accounting.
21 DOG YEARS
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He intermeddled not with the civil institutions of the day.
A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery
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And, indeed, leaving a rabble of long prologues and protestations, which ordinarily these dolent contemplative lent-lovers make who never meddle with the flesh, one day he said unto her, Madam, it would be
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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If you meddle in other people 's relationships you do so at your peril.
The Sun
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To them that served her she told the tale of her vow, that she might not do off her sallet that seven days; and some trowed her, and some deemed her a woman, but whereas she seemed by her raiment to be of condition none meddled with her.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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Falsehood like a nettle stings those who meddle with it.
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This site is continuously meddled with, torn apart and endlessly tittivated.
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I am looking at a statute of a foreign Parliament purporting to intermeddle in our constitutional affairs.
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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
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It is one thing to contact the dead, it is another to meddle and you are meddling.
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Obama is wise in opposing the violence but stating we should not meddle in the Iranian affairs.
McCain again pans president's Iran response
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With troops in 70 percent of the world's countries we are naturally perceived as the most meddlesome of nations.
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If you meddle in other people 's relationships you do so at your peril.
The Sun
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Much of this is due to the government's meddlesome social engineering.
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Who meddles in all things may shoe the gosling.
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Notes: the term ‘meddle ‘is used by the custumal in a context that reflects etymological associations: the prohibition of middlemen in the retail of shellfish.
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Who meddleth in all things may shoe the gosling.
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Seward was "meddlesome" toward other departments; "runs to the President two or three times a day; wants to be Premier," etc., says Welles.
The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him
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The soul is struck with the ardour of a fever, overwhelmed with an epilepsy, and displaced by a sharp megrim, and, in short, astounded by all the diseases that hurt the whole mass and the most noble parts; this never meddles with the soul; if anything goes amiss with her, 'tis her own fault; she betrays, dismounts, and abandons herself.
The Essays of Montaigne — Complete
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Already some people are asking whether scientists have any right to meddle in such matters.
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They are just happily getting on with their own lives and doing their best to dodge being bothered by all the busybodies and meddlers of the world.
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The Chinese regime, however, did not meddle with this meeting, as good as a Embassy used good option in arranging it, according to Jiang.
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Social workers are seen as meddlesome and health service managers as hard-hearted.
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Another insubstantial yet deeply rooted paean to Isabel's status as an" intermeddler "whose reasoning begins where other literary sleuths 'ends.
The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday by Alexander Mccall Smith: Book summary
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She is unhappy, bossy, meddlesome, and possessive.
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Already some people are asking whether scientists have any right to meddle in such matters.
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Already some people are asking whether scientists have any right to meddle in such matters.
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I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker in which no other, and far less the public, had a right to intermeddle.
On Same-Sex Couples and Catfish Derbies
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With a less than brilliant director, ham actors and a meddlesome newcomer, will it ever reach opening night?
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Now you know, missy, of co'se, dese heah broom -- weddin's dey ain't writ down in nuther co't-house nur chu'ch books -- an 'so ef any o' dese heah smarty meddlers was to try to bring up ole sco'es an 'say dat Sister Sophy-Sophia wasn't legally married, dey wouldn't be no witnesses _but me an' de broom_, an 'I'd have to witness _for it_, an' -- an '_I_ wouldn't be no legal witness.
Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches
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A foreigner who attaches himself to a political party in this country is in the worst state that can be imagined; he is looked upon as a mere intermeddler.
The Life of Oliver Goldsmith
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What Burke means by compromise, and what every true statesman understands by it, is that it may be most inexpedient to meddle with an institution merely because it does not harmonise with 'argument and logical illation.'
On Compromise
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Don't meddle in my affairs!
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There's always a risk that the politicians will meddle, which is one reason for the Bush Administration to do this now so it can insist on enough political insulation.
Surviving the Panic
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First the help of the Romans was asked and readily given; then in return a tribute was demanded and paid; then the Romans would meddle with the government, till their interference became intolerable, and there was a rising against it, which they called rebellion; then they sent an army, and ruined the nation for ever.
The Chosen People A Compendium of Sacred and Church History for School-Children
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He seems to think of us as meddlers and bringers of danger.
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A friend and I were seriously planning on going but this ice storm has kind of meddled with our plans.
Twilight Lexicon » What Do You Want To Know?
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When meddlesome busybodies suggested that perhaps these hours were rather long, they were told that work kept adults from drink and children from mischief.
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Now, with reckless abandon, it promises to meddle with local-government structure.
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Officious Intermeddler, You are officially permitted to intermeddle in support of my points any time, please feel free...you seem to have done all the heavy lifting here...adieu
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“She shall tell you herself, thou incorrigible intermeddler in what concerns thee not, that it is her wish the ceremony should go on — Is it not, Isabella, my dear?”
The Black Dwarf
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Don't meddle with the electrical wiring.
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Audience laugh at his figure at the end of the Play, as well as they had at the beginning; but I believe if I had put an _Absolver_ upon his back, giving him a Blessing, it would have been more divertive by half; but let him alone, the next horrible Crime is, I meddle with Churchmen, and there my _malice makes me_, he says, _lay about me like a Knight
Essays on the Stage Preface to the Campaigners (1689) and Preface to the Translation of Bossuet's Maxims and Reflections on Plays (1699)
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He understood all the suspicions that policemen entertain in the case of night prowlers, and knew that they would be particularly and meddlesomely interested in one who prowled with a child in his arms.
The Landloper
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By this means the meddlesome woman cast in a bone between the wife and the husband.
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It's perfectly capable of remaining in its own time-warped bubble without help from its meddlesome friends.
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But that's how the government, which seems to get bigger and more meddlesome by the week, set it up.
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She meddled in places she had no business being, was emotionally manipulative, and a professional passive/aggressive.
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She pored over them with unspectacled eyes whenever she mixed a cunning dish; and even Angélique dared not meddle with them, though they were to be part of the girl's inheritance.
Old Kaskaskia
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(there is no arguing when the details are so specific); the barble is "a Fish that will not meddle with the baite untill with her taile she have unhooked it from the hooke.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 2
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For once, those meddlesome noses are actively welcome.
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Yes, you'd better not meddle with the darkies if you don't want your fingers smutted, Miss Anne; for young ladies with smutty fingers, don't succeed in society very well, you'd much better attend to your fineries, and exert your superfluous reformatory energies upon one of those marvellous structures which you call a bonnet, and I call a coal-scuttle.
Sister Anne's Vocation.
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She's the do-gooder type who always meddles in business that's no affair of hers.
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But that depends on how much Sony meddle, which is, I admit, a big factor.
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This isn't the first time the international community has meddled in Zimbabwe's affairs.
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By taking longer to repay the government,there was abigger riskit would meddle.
When Repaying TARP, the Timing Is Key
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These officious intermeddlers from Hollywood have no regard for baseball or its rich history of patriotism, and they have no business being at the Hall of Fame.
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She thought of England rather vaguely as a country where it was always raining, and where — according to John — an assemblage of old fogies, known as the House of Commons, persistently intermeddled in the affairs of the colony.
Australia Felix
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God-fearing self, put on no airs, and intermeddled not in matters beyond her ken, she was universally respected and regretted.
With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
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However, it wasnt until this year when an interrogation primogenitor asked me how we became meddlesome in training which we took a time to ponder this
Archive 2009-11-01
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In doing so, they waste money, intimidate doctors, clog up the system and draw in the meddlesome fools in Westminster.
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While her family are unquestionably meddlers, their motives are more or less sympathetic.
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Yet I never met a designer who was happy to have his or her work meddled with.
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Already some people are asking whether scientists have any right to meddle in such matters.
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If they are given autonomy, they will ensure that no neighbor meddles in their affairs.
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His reputation as a meddler, unwilling to afford his managers free rein, is as damaging as what appears to be his unrealistic ambition.
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Beijing's fulminations suggesting that Washington has used the Nobel to meddle in China's internal politics -- and Washington prosecuting its currency war with Beijing -- represent a lesson in how two hard power economic giants with different cultures and infrastructures manage social issues and expectations.
Eric Ehrmann: China Roiled by Washington's October Surprise
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The hope is that by changing the composition of the board of a combined entity, SGX and ASX can get meddlesome Australian politicians off their case.
Australia's Not-So-Foreign Exchange
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I’ll watch for a while, and see that naebody meddles wi’ the grave — it’s only saying the laird’s forbade it — then get my bit supper frae Ringan the poinder up by, and leave to sleep in his barn; and I’ll slip out at night, and neer be mist.”
The Antiquary
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Just another actor using their'celebrity' status to meddle in politics.
The Sun
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After all, in Falkirk the town hall carries the inscription, ‘Better meddle with the deil than with the bairns of Falkirk’.
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None seem wholly dead words except the following eighteen: To _mammock_, tear; _mell_, meddle; _mose_, mourn; _micher_, truant; _mome_, fool;
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.
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I once more, therefore, insist, that you do not intermeddle.
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Should Alaskans decide that meddlesome outsiders are scheming to do in their beloved “Uncle Ted,” spite alone will carry him to victory.
The Man in the Middle
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I kind of meddled in his life 8 years ago and made things better, then a lot worse (I'm sure I'll mention it in some old journal entry I'll post later) but we're probably both past that.
Elfpvke Diary Entry
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The Administrator is not liable unless it can be shewn that she has intermeddled with the Goods and made payment of any Debt.
John Adams diary 5, 26 May - 25 November 1760
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I'll watch for a while, and see that naebody meddles wi 'the grave -- it's only saying the laird's forbade it -- then get my bit supper frae Ringan the poinder up by, and leave to sleep in his barn; and I'll slip out at night, and neer be mist.
The Antiquary — Complete
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John Quincy Adams, once President, but now a senile intermeddler, had been presenting petitions in Congress from various constituencies for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia.
Children of the Market Place
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Maintenance “is officious intermeddling in a suit which in no way belongs to the intermeddler, by maintaining or assisting either party to the action, with money or otherwise, to prosecute or defend it,” in other words, helping another prosecute a suit, while champerty is a species of maintenance “in which the intermeddler makes a bargain with one of the parties to the action to be compensated out of the proceeds of the action,” in other words maintaining a suit in return for a financial interest in the outcome.
Rare champerty ruling in false advertising case
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Just another actor using their'celebrity' status to meddle in politics.
The Sun
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Do not meddle in affairs of dragons, because you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.