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Intersperse   Listen
verb
Intersperse  v. t.  (past & past part. interspersed; pres. part. interspersing)  
1.
To scatter or set here and there among other things; to insert at intervals; as, to intersperse pictures in a book. "There, interspersed in lawns and op'ning glades, Thin trees arise that shun each other's shades."
2.
To diversify or adorn with things set or scattered at intervals; to place something at intervals in or among; as, to intersperse a book with pictures. "Which space is interspersed with small islands and rock."






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"Intersperse" Quotes from Famous Books



... only Indian trails, and these in many places were dangerous to travel with beasts of burden. The barrancas during the month of May are all but intolerably hot, and it was a relief to get up now and then on the strips of highland that intersperse the country and look as fine as parks. At the higher altitudes I noticed a great number of eagle ferns, and the Indians here plant corn in the small patches between the ferns, merely putting the grains into the gravelly red ground without tilling ...
— Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) • Carl Lumholtz

... are certain things to avoid and to observe in the use of stones. Never use one spot on the stone, however narrow the tool may be. Always move the tool from side to side. Never grind a set of narrow tools successively. If you have chisels to grind intersperse their grinding with plane bits, hatchet or other broad cutting tools, so as to prevent the stone from having grooves therein. Never use a tool on a stone unless you have water in ...
— Carpentry for Boys • J. S. Zerbe

... might still be at liberty to express my own. In this opinion all parties acquiesced, and it was determined that the narrative should be written in the first person, and that I might, notwithstanding, intersperse such sentiments and observations as my subject should suggest: they are not indeed numerous, and when they occur, are always cursory and short; for nothing would have been more absurd than to interrupt an interesting narrative, or new descriptions, ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 12 • Robert Kerr

... to intersperse through the pages of this work, under the head of 'Philosophical Notes,' an entire system of grammatical principles, as deduced from what appears[11] to me to be the most rational and consistent philosophical investigations."— Ib., p. 36. "Johnson, and Blair, ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown

... Martin Mar-Prelate books was one entitled "The Cobbler's Book." This I have not seen; but these cobblers probably picked up intelligence for these scandalous chronicles. The writers, too, condescended to intersperse the cant dialect of the populace, with which the cobblers doubtless assisted these learned men, when busied in their buffoonery. Hence all their vulgar gibberish; the Shibboleth of the numerous class of their ...
— Calamities and Quarrels of Authors • Isaac D'Israeli

... "the Broad," over that ground which had once blackened under the fagots lit for Latimer and Ridley. It rolled past the portals of Balliol and of Trinity, past the Ashmolean. From those pedestals which intersperse the railing of the Sheldonian, the high grim busts of the Roman Emperors stared down at the fair stranger in the equipage. Zuleika returned their stare with but a casual glance. The inanimate had ...
— Zuleika Dobson - or, An Oxford Love Story • Max Beerbohm



Words linked to "Intersperse" :   interspersal, place, interspersion, introduce, lay, set, stick in, put, interleave, interlard, position



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