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Considering the emphasis with which he had interpolated himself into her acquaintance that opera evening, the length of the unbroken after-pause seemed incredible.

From Lonesome Town by Dorrance, Ethel

"But one would hardly call America a foreign country to an Englishwoman," one friend had interpolated at this point.

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney

This was the same Abdallah who, in acting as amanuensis to Mahomet, and writing down his revelations, had interpolated passages of his own, sometimes of a ludicrous nature.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

In the case of Russia—the country where the state, more than ordinarily artificial and ill-balanced, was correspondingly weak—Fate had interpolated a blood-stained page of red and white terror in the years 1906-08.

From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Dillon, Emile Joseph

He had interpolated pages in old record books and had even changed and rewritten royal documents, including one on which the grant was based.

From Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert by McClintock, James H.