meddle

• As soon as I started to meddle, the girl set to work again, lulled two innocent people to cover her tracks and murderously attacked three others. —  Gaudy Night Dorothy L Sayers -3rd Lord Peter WImsey/Harriet Vane book
• He could take care of his own affairs, lend a needed hand with others, but never meddle--smile with that half-sardonic grimace at all foolish little things, weep with the stricken when calamity came; yet above it all the little man towered, carrying himself like the giant that he was. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians
• "One can at any rate keep other women off Don't meddle--you're very clumsy," was her mother's not particularly sympathetic rejoinder. —  The Tragic Muse
• Thus Peter guessed that they had had a quarrel in which it didn't concern him to meddle: he added her epithet and her flight from England together, and they made up to his perception one of the little magnified embroilments which do duty for the real in superficial lives. —  The Tragic Muse
• With the subtleties of Philosophy concerning them Masonry does not meddle, nor decide as to the reality of the supposed Existences which are their Personifications: nor whether the Christian Trinity be such a personification, or a Reality of the gravest import and significance To every Mason, the Infinite Justice and Benevolence of God give ample assurance that Evil will ultimately be dethroned, and the Good, the True, and the Beautiful reign triumphant and eternal. —  Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry

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