"Butt in" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... roar of laughter. "Say, we've had no such holy terror come to hand this many a year. I reckon the lodge will learn to be proud of you.... Well, what the hell do you want? And can't I speak alone with a gentleman for five minutes but you must butt in on us?" ...
— The Valley of Fear • Arthur Conan Doyle
... lifted his gun with a gesture of rage, and dashing it to the ground thrust it far up the butt in ...
— Analytical Studies • Honore de Balzac
... replied sadly. 'In fact, far from well. I can tell you almost exactly what he said—it wasn't much. He said, "See here, Cupples, you don't want to butt in. My wife can look after herself. I've found that out, along with other things." He was perfectly quiet—you know he was said never to lose control of himself—though there was a light in his eyes that would have frightened a man who was in ...
— Trent's Last Case - The Woman in Black • E.C. (Edmund Clerihew) Bentley
... couldn't be everywhere at once; and so a couple of Mu Kow Moos had got Smith. He knew it because he had heard them ask what his name was and he had told them Smith. He'd pretty nearly wrecked his brain trying to think of an excuse to butt in, but they had taken the boy away and he'd run all the way to the house to see if ...
— At Good Old Siwash • George Fitch
... state that if Major Calvert had left his trainer to his own judgment his stable would have made a better showing than it had. But the major's disposition and unlimited time caused him more often than not to follow the racing paraphrase: "Dubs butt in where trainers fear ...
— Garrison's Finish - A Romance of the Race-Course • W. B. M. Ferguson
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