1 So he came to London to invade a new land.
2 SHE sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue.
3 Gabriel glanced right and left nervously and tried to keep his good humour under the ordeal which was making a blush invade his forehead.
4 Beside the crag the heath was very deep: when I lay down my feet were buried in it; rising high on each side, it left only a narrow space for the night-air to invade.
5 It is a very justifiable cause of a war, to invade a country after the people have been wasted by famine, destroyed by pestilence, or embroiled by factions among themselves.
6 Late in the afternoon she sought refuge with Mademoiselle Reisz, and stayed there alone, waiting for her, feeling a kind of repose invade her with the very atmosphere of the shabby, unpretentious little room.
7 In the meantime, the sisters gladly dismounted, and prepared to enjoy their halt in the coolness of the evening, and in a security which they believed nothing but the beasts of the forest could invade.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 13 8 Nay, the Director's room itself they would invade while still licking their lips, and since their breath was not over-aromatic, the atmosphere of the room grew not over-pleasant.
9 We say that Napoleon wished to invade Russia and invaded it.
10 I was a poor, helpless, miserable wretch; I knew, and could distinguish, nothing; but feeling pain invade me on all sides, I sat down and wept.
11 But Melanie reefed up her top hoop a little higher to hide her thickening figure and the wounded invaded the brick house.
12 My little inner world was gone, invaded by people whose thoughts were not my thoughts, whose actions were as alien as a Hottentot's.
13 At first she was as startled as if a ghost had invaded the store and then, hastily removing her foot from beneath her, she stiffened her spine and gave him a cold stare.
14 They invaded the house at all hours and without warning.
15 She flushed; she was alarmed by the ease with which the big-city man invaded her guarded personality.