And what sort of impertinent, meddlesome person was I, shrieking out my suggestions to people with whom I had no acquaintance?
He never succeeded in getting hold of that meddlesome Englishman whom they call the Scarlet Pimpernel," was Gourdon's final dry comment.
While we have those people in our power," Chauvelin had reiterated to himself more than once during the course of his long vigil, "even that meddlesome Scarlet Pimpernel can do nothing to save those cursed Montorgueils.
Wait, and without the help of a meddlesome old woman, it will perhaps all come right some day.
If they went over to the opposition, the plea that my workings might damage their property, if encouraged by meddlesome politicians, would seriously hamper me.
It must be near midnight, I think, when I am again awakened from my uneasy, oft-disturbed slumbers by murmuring voices and the shuffling of feet; examining the bicycle by the feeble glimmer of a classic lamp are a dozen meddlesome Persians.
After being pushed away several times, one of them even assumes a menacing attitude toward me the last time I thrust his meddlesome hand away.
He inveighed strongly against meddlesome surgery and declared that not a little of the subsequent complications in wounds were due to misdirected efforts at cure of them.
His contributions to surgery are almost more important than those to medicine, for he insisted on keeping wounds clean and deprecated the meddlesome surgery of the time.
They were meddlesome little creatures, that went about helping fish and shells which got into scrapes.
He had never seen a caddis with a house-door before: so what must he do, the meddlesome little fellow, but pull it open, to see what the poor lady was doing inside.
We owe the origins of our political life to the influence of these German tribes, with their love of individual freedom and their stern hatred of meddlesome rulers, or a meddlesome state or legislature.
Though yet in sight, I was out of Washington, and safely beyond the reach of the meddlesome War Department detectives, who had become so numerous and about as thoroughly despised as were the army insect pests.
This meddlesome provincial may be stirring up trouble already.
For it was in the streets of that town that meddlesome Fate brought him face to face one day with Gregorio Gonzales, under whom Espinosa had been a scullion once in the service of the Count of Nyeba.
There was her bedroom, a tiny sanctum where she kept all her special treasures out of the way of the children's meddlesome fingers.
And such an inquisitive, meddlesome set they are, too!
Your great-aunt Betsy was meddlesomedisposed that-a-way.
But under their breaths they cursed Judge Orcutt for a meddlesome old nuisance, which would not have worried him.
And Adelle thereupon went back to the house, gratified that she had enforced discipline, not hearing the contractor's profanity about meddlesome women.
Crosland appears to have given him a piece of his mind," I laughed, "and called you a meddlesome fool.
It is the fool notions that he picked up somewhere over there in the war--there, and from that meddlesome old socialist basket maker.
I see that some one ought to break that meddlesome old basket maker's head as well as his legs," growled McIver indignantly.
Unfortunately, this source has not been spared bymeddlesome men, and it has not reached us in its pristine condition.
According to the opportunity and the temptation, it glides downhill, now toward the surrender of its duty, and now toward the meddlesome interference of an intruder.
Defn: To act or treat as a monkey does; to ape; to act in a grotesque or meddlesome manner.
The act or state of interfering; as, the stoppage of a machine by the interference of some of its parts; a meddlesome interference in the business of others.
