Being courteous folk, they had not obtruded themselves overnight by presence, word, or gesture. |
Sometimes I dreamed strangely of disturbed earth, and of hair, still golden and living, obtruded through the coffin-chinks. |
It was not only the police but the palace which obtruded on a home secretary's life. |
They are the draff and offal of a bygone age, and we will not have them obtruded here. |
But if such matters obtruded in their investigations then the tribunal was perfectly entitled to investigate. |
The billowing words obtruded itself into all the elf's senses. |