The consul felt a sigh trying to escape him, and turning from the images whose Obtrusion had called it up from the depths, directed his attention to a different set of subjects, unwilling at the moment to be troubled.
"Aurora the Magnificent"
Gertrude Hall
And about the man whose connection with himself was a thought of such bitter shame, there was now so unmistakably the air of settled degradation, that all Darrell's instincts of gentleman were revolted-just at the very time, too, when his pride had been most chafed and assailed by the Obtrusion of all that rendered most galling to him the very name of Jasper Losely.
"What Will He Do With It, Book 10."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Here, then, begin the Obtrusion, and the alledged necessity of those boundary walls, against which I have been protesting.
"A Morning's Walk from London to Kew"
Richard Phillips