Never shall he be able to discern the sun or to understand that which hathintervened between him and it.
The fellow had evidently made inquiry and found that only two lives intervened between him and a valuable estate.
I was cut off in that inappreciable point of time which intervened between the flash and the fire--between the burning of the powder in the touch-hole, and the burning of it in the barrel of the gun.
All these operations required time--more of it than intervened before the customary period for the meeting of the convention.
Only a plank intervened between that little knot of giddy pleasure-seekers, with their jokes and small-talk, and the father and daughter in their agony.
The obstacle that intervened between him and his desire still stood there, though only by an accident, as though, after he had fairly blown it into the air, it had resettled itself precisely in the same spot.
Then he threw himself on a sofa, to sleep, during the brief time that intervenedbefore daybreak.
A very few days intervened between Miss Rothesay's final decision and her departure.
This last case suggests that favoritism sometimes intervened to shield culprits and this would seem to be confirmed by the leniency shown, in 1696, to Fray Francisco Esquerrer.
The acts of the Synod of Pistoja were translated into Spanish and persistent efforts were made to obtain licence for their publication, until Pius VI intervened with a letter to the king and frustrated the attempt.
But the part of this glacier which intervened between his route and Almer's rocks was, in the most complete sense of the word, impracticable.
The gully narrowed and narrowed until there was a mere thread of snow lying between two walls of rock, which came to an abrupt termination at the top of a precipice that intervened between it and the glacier.
Being rather nervous about descending some long snow-slopes which still intervened between us and the head of the valley, I offered more pay, and he went on a little way.
But a circumstance intervened which recalled them home, an invasion, that is to say, of their territory by the Venĕti.
In this distracted state of politics, Aratus intervened with all the earnestness he could command, and succeeded in pacifying the heated feelings of the citizens.
I am well aware that the busy years which have intervened have taken the edge off some of my recollections, while the lapse of time has possibly touched others with a sunset glow.
Father Payne intervened once, and said: "Lestrange is perfectly right, and you would think so too, if only he could give what he said a more secular twist.
The time which intervened before the December examinations was all too short to repair the well-spent idleness of previous years.
Jack bowed with adequate graciousness, but Lady Barbara intervened with a vigorous refusal.
What was the good of meeting any one, if Jack's ghost intervened to thrust them apart?
Burckhardt states that during the twenty-four years that have intervened since Baron Humboldt's visit to Jorullo, the 'hornitos' have either wholly disappeared or completely changed their forms.
Turkey intervened militarily on Cyprus in 1974 to prevent a Greek takeover of the island and has since acted as patron state to the "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus," which only Turkey recognizes.
Twice I planned to leave St. Petersburg and pursue you to London or Paris, but each time business matters intervened with their relentless demands.
Edwardes' first thought was to seize the wrist, but the breadth of the table intervened and he knew that he was dealing with a man of temporarily dethroned reason.
He threatened to grow into a more odious man, but Providence intervened in his behalf--with disguised kindness.
An hour of the afternoon session yet intervened between the present and the awful future and upon Paul Burton it rested with its incubus of dire suspense.
Here Rufinus broke in with some vehemence, and the discussion would have become a dispute if Paula had not intervened by requesting her zealous host to give her the results, at any rate, of his studies.
This tract lay about two degrees north of the Columbia, and intervened between the territories of the United States and those of Russia.
An island for some time intervened between them and the opposite side of the river; but on clearing the upper end, they came in full view of the hostile shore.
Little did they dream of the hardships and perils by land and water, which were yet to be encountered in the frightful wilderness that intervened between them and the shores of the Pacific!
On March 19 the first well-marked lull intervened at the height of a gale.
When a few calm hours intervened between two blizzards a general rush was made to continue some long-standing job.
Neither the perplexities of the intellect nor the scruples of the conscience intervened to hamper their free activity.
The Irish church as well as the Irish state, touched its lowest point of suffering and endurance in the decade which intervened between the death of Charles I.
The events of the five months, which intervened between the adjournment of the National Synod at the end of May, and the meeting of the General Assembly on the 23rd of October, may best be summed up under the head of the respective provinces.
A few months only had intervened between the death of the rivals.
Then Philip had intervened and depicted himself as bound in honour to take no step until the expiration of the armistice.
A deep ravine and stream called Peploep's Kill intervened between the two forts, across which there was a bridge.
Washington now began to count the days and hours that intervened between him and his retirement.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intervened" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
