Although the theme is really the procession of life through countless generations, it obtains a tone of sadness from the sense of Intervenient decay and change.
"Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Vol III."
John Symonds
Transit across the Intervenient space being at present impracticable, we have to derive our most enlarged views of this "spotty globe" from the "optic glass."
"Moon Lore"
Timothy Harley
He would sit down then and there, and write to the offended or alarmed lady, and lay his piteous case before her in his own words and rely on her compassion, without an Intervenient.
"Checkmate"
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu