It is a matter of delicacy to obtrude on the privacy of such a person, it being presumed that he wishes to be retired.
Though it is no great conquest to obtrude the belief of anything whatsoever on persons of small parts and little education, yet they triumph greatly therein and communicate the same honour of boasting in their pupils.
This bright autumn weather is so crowded with sights and sounds to dazzle and enchant that to obtrude the leaf of rue within the garland or breathe a minor tone into the music seems almost out of place.
You have no more right to obtrude your conversation upon your wife, nor she upon her husband, when either is in the middle of a thrilling story, than you or she would have to interrupt the Queen of England at her devotions.
It never fails him, nor, on the other hand, does it obtrude itself unduly on the sense conveyed.
The poetical "colour" is here, the ideal dignity, the atmosphere, although they obtrude themselves less on the reader than in most poets.
When he had vainly sought her about the farm, it occurred to him to go to the ragged "buryin' ground" and though he found her there he did not obtrude upon her solitary vigil.
You can sit in your invisibility in any one of the carriages that roll to and fro, and, as long as you do not obtrude yourself on the occupants, there is not an equipage in London, high or low, in which you cannot ride.
He does not however obtrude his thoughts upon me: on the subject of love an anchorite could not be more silent, or a brother more delicate.
But he is generally successful in his continual attempts to give the conversation a new turn, when his favourite opinions are opposed: for I do not think it wise to obtrude too many painful contradictions upon him at a time.
Mr. Baring-Gould, Anglican priest though he be, fulfils the promise of his original edition in so far as he does not obtrude either prejudice or sectarianism into his record of these Saints.
Foreigners view the Americans with a degree of contempt; they laugh at our manners, pity our ignorance, and as far as example and derision can go, obtrude upon us the customs of their native countries.
The tradesfolk, whose respectful voices never rose above a whisper in the hall, now grew clamorous in the antechamber; and more than once did they actually obtrude themselves in person within those charmed precincts inhabited by Lady Hester.
As he had not spoken to me of bad news, I felt ashamed to obtrude myself on his confidence and kept silent, and not a word passed between us as we went.
Mr. Eccles says he is satisfied with me; but I fear it is more because I obtrude little on his notice than that I am making any progress.
Of course, everybody has such obsessions and doubts occasionally, but to be psychasthenic about it is to have them continually and to have them obtrude themselves into every action.
Into every moment of enjoyment they obtrude conscience, or rather conscience obtrudes itself.
My dear Friend, May I venture to obtrude on you what I cannot intrust to a messenger, much less to the post.
I do not wish to obtrude myself too much into this trial of another man for the murder of my betrothed.
She does not obtrude her peculiar opinions on any one, and I began the conversation this afternoon myself.
Having brushed the dust or powdered wood away, the colour of the wood will have to be lowered or subdued, otherwise the whiteness will obtrude itself and stare through any carefully selected varnish.
Footnote 149: There is this great difference, that, from the mode of pronouncing, the rhythm of the blank verse does not necessarily obtrude itself on the audience: that of the couplet indubitably must.
They cannot obtrude upon the solitary moments when one is to himself the most agreeable of companions.
I refused to obtrude myself upon the white cadets, and treated them all with uniform courtesy.
If they are friendly, so am I; if they scorn me, I do not obtrude myself upon them; if they are indifferent, I am indifferent too.
I will not bear it in Hungary, nor obtrude it abroad.
He who has given up the sight of the visibles from his view, and does not allow the sensibles to obtrude upon his senses, is said to have renounced all and every thing from himself.
We dwell on the firm rock of our secret hopes and expectations, where no body can obtrude upon us, and of which no external accident has the power to despoil us).
If it be improper for States to obtrude upon Congress their sentiments, it is much more highly so for the unauthorized deputies of fortuitous congregations.
