Interfering

Examples

• With your branch of the subject, on which alone you are competent to speak, I should not think of interfering. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• But it is possible to send too strong a current through our wire, thereby interfering with all motion and destroying the motor. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• I don't know when I have felt the solemn duty of interfering so strongly as I felt it at that moment. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• You have spoken of my 'secret meddling,' and my 'interfering ignorance,' and my 'false assent. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Now, as on a thousand other occasions, inexplicable nervous scruples kept her back from interfering. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I had no hope of interfering with success; and sometimes I thought your sister's influence might yet reclaim him. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• There would be no use in interfering; there is no law that amounts to anything practically, for such a case. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• He is afraid of invalidism interfering with the business of life. Plato. The Republic.
• He had denounced the slave trade fiercely, and blamed the home government for interfering with colonial attempts to end it. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Paul, with his unwarrantably interfering habits, had taken from the portress, and now delivered it himself. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Besides, I was always interfering in the details. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• And so much the worse grudge I owe him, for interfering and setting my discarded men against me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The actual war was precipitated by the Romans making a breach of their own regulations, and interfering with affairs south of the Ebro. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Damn you to hell for all the men you've killed by interfering in matters you know nothing of. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Shortly afterward, Sir Thomas was again interfering a little with her inclination, by advising her to go immediately to bed. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• If Mrs. Rushworth could imagine any interfering obligations, Julia was certainly able to quit London whenever she chose. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The most familiar forms of the telephone are those seen in Figs. 61 and 62, but the ideal form is rigged in a cabinet or little room, which excludes all extraneous interfering sounds. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• She was a young woman, and she was so startled that she was at first quite incapable of interfering. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• She is not at all interfering, and incapable of gossip. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• St. Clare had his fortune and his servants, and I'm well enough content he should manage them his way; but St. Clare will be interfering. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• An ordinary test-tube is supplied with some of the culture medium, and is then sterilized over the fire to destroy all interfering germs. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• About this time I got an idea I could devise an apparatus by which four messages could simultaneously be sent over a single wire without interfering with each other. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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