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trespass

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Trespass is a 2011 American crime thriller film directed by Joel Schumacher . The film stars Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman as a married couple taken hostage by extortionists. Shooting on the project began in Shreveport , Louisiana , on August 30, 2010. ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trespass \Tres"pass\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trespassed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Trespassing .] [ OF . trespasser to go across or over, transgress, F. tr['e]passer to die; pref. tres- (L. trans across, over) + passer to pass. See Pass , v. i., and cf. Transpass ...

Usage examples of trespass.

The normative astronaut was Hickory Lee: quiet, fearfully efficient, solid drinker off duty, quick to anger if his rights were trespassed, and average in almost every other human reaction.

In short, Speckle Frew is less an island than it is a bestiary, and it is not to be trespassed lightly.

I sailed off on the Rio Viboro Campaign to drive the accursed French back from the southern coast of the northern mainlandit was those swine, trespassing excommunicants, who built the older part of this very fort, you know, Don Felipeand when I returned to Habana, he was already wed to the daughter of a well-heeled creole merchant.

All the persons comprised in this and the forgoing article were indulged with a general pardon of all attainders, outlawries, treasons, misprisons of treason, premunires, felonies, trespasses, and other crimes and misdemeanors whatsoever, committed since the beginning of the reign of James II.

When Dame Prudence had heard the answer of these men, she bade them go again privily, and she returned to her lord Meliboeus, and told him how she found his adversaries full repentant, acknowledging full lowly their sins and trespasses, and how they were ready to suffer all pain, requiring and praying him of mercy and pity.

Town bounties were taking their reiving toll, with the headhunters unafraid to ride out in force, and no centaur guardians to challenge their trespass.

I could arrest you for trespassing and a whole shitload of other things?

Technically they were trespassing on land owned by the Stinson Timber Company but as yet, nobody cared.

But perhaps the dossiers told of how Jake, Paul, and Gary had become close friends as well as climbing partners over the past few years, friends who trusted each other to the point of trespassing on the Himalaya Preserve just to get acclimated for the climb of their lives.

Then I paused, wondering if I was trespassing too far, then plunged ahead.

After a harsh winter, a Blackfeet hunting party came down out of the mountains, trespassing on Crow land.

Here we are in the middle of nowhere listening to the stow of a murderer who is annoyed at us for trespassing on the scene of his crime.

The feelings of a man hereditarily sensitive to property accused her of a trespassing imprudence, and knowing himself, by testimony of his household, his tenants, and the neighbourhood, and the world as well, amiable when he received his dues, he contemplated her with an air of stiff-backed ill-treatment, not devoid of a certain sanctification of martyrdom.

She had lost her defendant at the first hearing, committed trespassing at Scanton Pharmaceuticals and allowed herself to be manipulated by a stripper.

A certain singular reserve of his, which alternated curiously with his perfect frankness, prevented them from trespassing so far on his individuality.