| Red Whisker pretended he could make a salad, and obtruded himself on public notice. |
| But then the impossibility of the thing obtruded itself upon me. |
| Sometimes I dreamed strangely of disturbed earth, and of hair, still golden and living, obtruded through the coffin-chinks. |
| It was the slightest action possible, not obtruded on his notice, and apparently the result of a moment's absence of mind, not worth remark. |
| The truckle-bed, as she passed it, obtruded itself again on her attention, and forced her to think of it. |
| He sometimes obtruded on what he described with a bestowing air, but that constant presence, which could feel undisciplined and unmedical, was requisite to his particular brand of intimacy. |
