Meddle

Usage examples of intervene.

It was not until late the following summer that the final, or definitive, Treaty of Paris was signed, and in the intervening time Adams fell once again into a black mood.

Nevyan expected it to be an aggressive gesture and prepared to intervene, but Ade took a step back.

Wash reached the cover of the Aleut accused by him of aiming directly to finish the Shanghai rooster, and before that startled aborigine could escape, he was disarmed by the black man and dragged across the intervening space to the fort.

There are approximately sixteen days intervening between the middle of November and the apprehension of the Allobroges on the Mulvian Bridge.

I saw no more of Aman Akbar that day or the next, and none of the night intervening.

Bedloe would intervene, as had her mother-in-law when Augustin Bedloe had grown too fond of his pet, Pleasants.

Several uniformed policemen had entered, and Banat was officiously trying to bar them because they had no tickets, so Florian trotted over to intervene.

Poland and before Mussolini had tried to intervene, Adolf Hitler had taken his final decision and issued the decisive order that was to throw the planet into its bloodiest war.

Now, your Majesty will see through your glass that a mile of bogland intervenes between these villages, and that the nearest one, Chedzoy, as I think they call it, might be approached without ourselves entering the morass.

Houses stopped and brushland began, with only an intervening firebreak, and Holly could not help but think of pioneers in the Old West constructing their outposts with a wary eye toward the threats that might arise out of the lawless badlands all around them.

Lugos, Avilas, Sepulvedas, and families who had been traveling for several days, stopping at intervening ranches, coming along slowly on horseback or in the cumbersome carretas drawn by oxen.

By means of the firm promise of a pecuniary recompense, Casanova intervened to obtain from his patron a written acknowledgment of the debt owing to Carletti.

Though Hertzog at Calvinia and De Lisle at Clanwilliam were only fifty miles apart, the intervening country is among the most broken and mountainous in South Africa.

She had gone less than a block when she spotted the coatrack, its square peak visible over the heads of the handful of intervening pedestrians.

Between these orbs were dotted lines and arrow-heads of the oldest form pointing in all directions, while all the intervening spaces were filled up with woven characters half-way in appearance between Runes and Cryptic-Sanskrit.