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In the very centre of the range, where the table-land attains its highest elevation, great masses of intrusive diorite and granite occur; and the latter is found in dykes piercing the gneiss and sub-metamorphic series throughout the southern half of the boundary of the plains.
The maid withdrew, and Pilar, without waiting for Wilhelm's question, muttered resentfully: "A man I was kind to out of pity, because he was such a poor wretch, an unknown poet, and bound to die soon and now he is impudent and intrusive. But that is just what one may expect when one is kind-hearted."
But the symphony of the Berlin dawn is ours now, fräulein, and have done with intrusive memories, corroding reflections. What are my people doing in Berlin at this hour? What are these prowling Al-Raschids about? Do they know the sorcery of the virgin morning light of Berlin as it falls upon the Siegesallee and gives life again to the marble heroes of Germany?
As for the young men, Bucklaw and Colonel Ashton, they protested that, after what had happened, it would be most dishonourable to postpone for a single hour the time appointed for the marriage, as it would be generally ascribed to their being intimidated by the intrusive visit and threats of Ravenswood.
"We Wolcotts are not wont to fail, and I am now too accustomed to Oliver's hairbreadth escapes for fright." "You were well alarmed at the servants' dance; oh, how rash he is!" "We spare nothing in our country's cause," said Betty, with a proud little toss of her head; "but, Kitty, forgive me if I appear intrusive I am puzzled to know how and where you and Oliver"
"You are very kind, Sir Stephen," said Howard his slow drawl unusually quickened for he, too, was touched, though he would have died rather than have admitted it, by the warmth of Sir Stephen's reception of his son. "I was afraid that I should be rather de trop, if not absolutely intrusive " "Not at all not at all!" Sir Stephen broke in.
Prescott, whether there are any urgent family reasons behind this sudden move of yours?" "None, sir." "Then is it -but I don't wish to be intrusive." "I certainly don't consider you intrusive, Mr. Denton, and I appreciate your sympathy and friendship. But I am resigning from the corps for the best of good reasons." "May I question you, Mr. Prescott?" "If you care to, sir."
She had another admirer, one of the head-waiters at the inn at Salt Hill. He also was not without pretensions to urbane superiority, such as he learnt from gentlemen's servants and waiting-maids, who initiating him in all the slang of high life below stairs, rendered his arrogant temper ten times more intrusive.
A young Gaulish woman revealed the plot to her Hellenic lover, and the Greeks laid their hands on the arms that were to have been employed against them, turned them against the intrusive Gauls, and massacred them to a man. But having thus saved themselves from one danger they felt that they had incurred another. They had provoked the deadly animosity of the whole tribe of the Segobrigae.
The lofty E. wall is barely perceptible, while the much lower W. border is conspicuously brilliant; and the E. half of the floor is dark, while the remainder, with two objects representing the loftier portions of the intrusive ridge, is prominently white.
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