| 1. | Looks intervene and smiles, or object ne. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | She counted the days that must intervene before their invitation could be sent hopeless of seeing him before. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
| 3. | Perhaps there was still time to intervene in behalf of that man. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 4. | At the outset it is well to remember that, though Spenser regarded Chaucer as his master, two centuries intervene between them, and that their writings have almost nothing in common. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 5. | My star vanished as I drew near some obstacle had intervened between me and it. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 6. | But of that dreary period which intervened I had no positive, at least no definite comprehension. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 7. | He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 8. | An age of almost intolerable suspense intervened then I heard it fumbling at the latch It had found the doo. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 9. | Here slang intervenes and takes it up Candle, camoufle. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 10. | "Jane, I approached the verge of despair a remnant of self-respect was all that intervened between me and the gulf. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 11. | Do you know what he did, sir He intervened like an archangel. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 12. | In that case, the parliament intervened and had some one hung. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 13. | As for us, when Providence intervenes and strikes, we let it work. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |