Intervened

Examples

• A heavy wood intervened between this work and the National forces. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• No angel has intervened. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Three years had intervened, and how, in their pennyless state, could her mother have existed during this time? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• But Fate intervened enviously and prevented her from receiving the reward due to such immaculate love and virtue. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• My star vanished as I drew near: some obstacle had intervened between me and it. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• There may have intervened a considerable period of t ime free from conscious effort on the special question involved in the discovery. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• But a kind fate intervened, and by a miracle I escaped with but slight bruises. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Ages have intervened between its several steps; but, as knowledge of late increases rapidly, why should not those steps be quickened? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Porter's fleet was on the east side of the river above the mouth of the Yazoo, entirely concealed from the enemy by the dense forests that intervened. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Jane, I approached the verge of despair; a remnant of self-respect was all that intervened between me and the gulf. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Closer and closer came the two vessels until but a few yards intervened. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• A number of buildings and trees intervened, when I had reached the plain, hiding the city from my view. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• An open plain intervened between the contending forces at this point, which was exposed both to a direct and a cross fire. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Jack Stepney intervened with authority. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Twelve hours had intervened since Bradley's lying down, when he got up. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Twenty years have intervened; for ten of them I lived and fought for Dejah Thoris and her people, and for ten I have lived upon her memory. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The strong arm of England also intervened to protect the Protestants in the south of France, who were being hunted to death by the Duke of Savoy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• During the twenty-eight years that have intervened it has never come back. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• She intervened so forcibly and in such terms that the manager was reduced to silence. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.

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