Our budding warrior and lover, while feigning an hypocritical interest in the conversation of the intruding lady, would, we fear, have seen her led off to the rack or stake with glee and gratitude.
Though, you see, I would no more think of intruding in George's business affairs than he would think of intruding in my household duties.
Well, you know an amateur photographer never wants for a reason when he gets caught intrudingon private grounds," he explained; "his enthusiasm is supposed to tempt him to take any risks.
Then why do I find you here, alongside this fence that was constructed to keep such curious people as you from intruding on my privacy?
In Egypt we have found deep-hidden, secret tombs, and, intruding on their many centuries of silence, have reaped rich harvests of knowledge from the garnered wealth.
With all the native tribes who have been brought into near relations with the intruding white race their languages and customs are undergoing important modifications.
If any portion of the aboriginal owners of the soil linger in the neighbourhood, they are no less affected by the predominant intruding race.
The Mexicans stood in the same relation to Central America as the Northern Barbarians of the third and fourth century did to Italy; and the intruding Spaniard nipped their germ of borrowed civilisation in the bud.
She knew his and her plight instantly: suffering was there, pulling decades from his skin and misery was intruding on her contemplation of beauty.
Dear me," she said, "I hope I am not intruding upon the claims of some absent affinity.
There had been something said about her right to see her own picture, and then--there they were--with the others safely barred from intruding upon the premises sacred to art.
Then he marks down the intruding ghost by counting the grains, and recommends the sacrifice of a fowl or a goat, or the offering of some liquor, most of which he usually consumes himself.
In the eastern parts of the North-West Provinces we have Sewanriya, who, like Terminus, is a special godling of boundaries, and whose function is to keep foreign Bhuts from intruding into the village under his charge.
If he is believed to be absent or asleep, a drum is beaten to awaken or recall him, and this answers the additional purpose of scaring off intruding spirits, who are always hungry and on the watch to appropriate the offerings of the faithful.
He addressed Richard in bad English, and tendered an apology for thus intruding upon him.
But it was not for feasting and drinking that I was guilty of the indiscretion of intruding upon you at this unseemly hour.
To pray, preach, and sing psalms in the streets and fields is worse, if possible, than intruding into pulpits by downright violence and breach of the peace; and then denying the plain fact with the most infamous prevarication.
Intruding thus, he by degrees Claimed too the butcher's larger fees.
All eyes were fixed on Cuitlahua, the noble brother of Montezuma, whose intrepid spirit, and deadly hatred of the intruding Spaniards, accorded with the now universal sentiment of the nation.
Unlike her disappointed suitor, the Prince of Tezcuco, he had uniformly and powerfully opposed the timid policy of the king, and urged, with Cuitlahua, a bold and unyielding resistance to the encroachments of the intruding Spaniards.
When first the brave was discovered thus wantonly, and with no other purpose but the shedding of blood, intruding on the dominions of the spirits, no words can tell the rage which appeared to possess their bosoms.
At this day the statue may be approached with safety, but the Indians hold it in fear, not intruding rashly upon it, and when in its presence treating it with great respect.
At last he stopped in the shelter and concealment of a wooden fence, put up to keep the building rubbish from intruding on the foot- pavement.
Doubtless Jem had long since gone; and doubtless, too, he had given Margaret some good reason for not intruding upon her friend for this night at least, otherwise Mary would have seen her before now.
She made no answer, and he stood for a moment, looking uneasily at the intruding fire-screen.
Semingham thought of some jest about not intruding on the sacred scene, but the jest did not come.
The instinct of the crowd--the universal human instinct--against intruding upon a young man and young woman talking together soon cleared them of neighbors.
Had you not many times angrily repulsed intruding thoughts that savoured of uncharitableness towards the volatile and beauteous wife?
The Duchess took the strong and injudicious step of intruding herself on the Queen, and asking what crime she had committed to produce so great an estrangement between them.
But she did wake soon--and the paroxysm of anger which seized her on discovering that she had intruding guests, caused Olive to retire almost to the staircase.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intruding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: interference; intrusive; officious
