Yet there, also, Christian writers were too apt to Interfuse the old ideas with the new, and to adopt doctrines placed, as it were, midway between those of Plato and St. Paul.
"Irish Race in the Past and the Present"
Aug. J. Thebaud
Their insight is blended with mere opinion; their sympathy is perhaps confined in narrow conduits of doctrine, instead of flowing forth with the freedom of a stream that blesses every weed in its course; obstinacy or self-assertion will often Interfuse itself with their grandest impulses; and their very deeds of self-sacrifice are sometimes only the rebound of a passionate egoism.
"Scenes of Clerical Life"
George Eliot
None can have failed to observe that, having recreated the story of adventure, he seemed in his later fiction to Interfuse a subtler purpose-the search for character, the analysis of mind and soul.
"Robert Louis Stevenson a Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial"
Alexander H. Japp