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The saga prose is straightforward and business-like, the dialogue short and pithy, with considerable interspersion of proverbial phrase, but with, except in case of bad texts, very little obscurity.

From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George

The occasional interspersion of rhymes, and the more frequent winding up of a speech therewith—what purpose was this designed to answer?

From Literary Remains, Volume 2 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

No more emphatic way than the interspersion of these emotional lyrics could have been chosen to bring home the poet’s conviction of the value of emotion in finding a positive basis for religious belief.

From Browning and His Century by Clarke, Helen Archibald

Nor shall we be wanting to fill up these papers with a grateful interspersion of more serious morals, which may be drawn from the most ludicrous and odd parts of human life.'

From Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

The interspersion of some discords seems to imply serious differences of opinion between the parties to the treaty.

From Charles Dickens and Music by Lightwood, James T.