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  • The pious generally ascribe the victory to St. Wenceslaus; if supernatural agency was at work, I am more inclined to attribute this ingerence to Brother Boleslav, the hearty heathen: it was more in his line.

    From a Terrace in Prague Lieut.-Col. B. Granville Baker

  • I have sought vainly for something interesting in the way of local colour, but can find nothing that even suggests the ingerence of a "fardingale" into the local history of

    From a Terrace in Prague Lieut.-Col. B. Granville Baker

  • Imperial influence had been all-powerful too long in the official religion to allow imperial ingerence in church affairs to cease with the imperial change of attitude towards Christianity.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

  • Both parties signed the decrees, but there is no evidence of any ingerence of the lay power in the spiritual legislation or judgments of the Church.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

  • I likely to put up with your continued and -- excuse me -- highly impudent ingerence into my private affairs? '

    St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • One of them is the issue of the Vatican's ingerence in italian society and its continuous steering of the political agenda.

    Scientific Blogging 2009

  • Her language on the subject is so measured and careful as to lead us almost inevitably to the ingerence that the reports which had excited such dissatisfaction at Vienna were not without foundation, but that the French gayety, even if often descending to frivolity, was more to her taste than the German solidity which her mother so highly esteemed, and that she had been at no great pains to hide a preference which must naturally he acceptable to those among whom her future life was to be spent.

    The Life of Marie Antoinette Yonge, Charles Duke, 1812-1891 1876

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