| 1. | _I_ don't want to intrude upon your secrets.. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 2. | "It is not a seasonable hour to intrude on Mr. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 3. | Worthing, I will not intrude any longer into a house of sorrow. - from The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde |
| 4. | I will not let any gloomy moralising intrude upon us here tonight. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 5. | Painful recollections will intrude which cannot, which ought not, to be repelled. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
| 6. | And manners, to intrude where I am grac'd. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 7. | Sometimes intrude not Who has a breast so pure. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 8. | "Not wishful to intrude I have departured fur you are well again dear Pip and will do better without JO. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 9. | I kept away from the studio for some time after that, because it didn't seem right to me to intrude on the poor chappie's sorrow. - from My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse |
| 10. | The butler threatened him with the police if he intruded again. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 11. | I should not have intruded it upon your attention had you not shown some incredulity the other day. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 12. | He did not quit the house again that afternoon, and no one intruded on his solitude till, at eight o'clock, I deemed it proper, though unsummoned, to carry a candle and his supper to him. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 13. | It must have been most irksome to find herself bound by a hard-wrung pledge to stand in the stead of a parent to a strange child she could not love, and to see an uncongenial alien permanently intruded on her own family group. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 14. | For frivolity and jokes and spotted tights were an offense, when they intruded themselves upon a spirit that was exalted into the vague august realm of the romantic. - from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) |