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Definition of Interposing
1. interpose [v] - See also: interpose
Lexicographical Neighbors of Interposing
Literary usage of Interposing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by Thomas Johnson Michie (1886)
"This protection extends, under certain limitations, to the cases of private
persons interposing for preventing mischief from an affray, or using their ..."
2. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England: Together with an by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1849)
"... (who began to assume a great freedom in discourse,) for not interposing to
hinder the queen's march to Oxford and joining with the king, ..."
3. The History of the French Revolution by Adolphe Thiers, Frederic Shoberl (1866)
"... she endeavoured to soothe the violence of the discussions, by interposing
herself between their self-lof« with the tact of a kind and superior 'woman. ..."
4. Patent Office Papers by United States Patent Office (1914)
"... the plaintiff had first invented a mode of applying it by a mechanical apparatus
to furnaces and his invention then consists in this by interposing a ..."
5. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1877)
"... had succeeded in climb interposing ing up to the now deserted Sandbag Battery
before the two Okhotsk battalions could reach it, and thus found himself ..."
6. The Church History of Britain: From the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, John Sherren Brewer (1845)
"... in his —-—— greatest strength did but weakly urge conformity; partly to the
earl of Leicester his interposing himself patron-general to non-subscribers, ..."
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