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  • Peeta starts up hampered by not only the leg but the knife in his hand.   (source)
    hampered = hindered (slowed down)
  • The stick that had supported a skull hampered him but he would not be parted from his only weapon.   (source)
    hampered = hindered (slowed progress)
  • With the hampering help of my sisters I made the little doghouse.   (source)
    hampering = hindering; i.e., slowing down or causing problems
  • The paper said Granma and Granpa was selfish, and being that way was total hampering me for the rest of my continual life.   (source)
  • But-incongruous as it may seem to some-I was restrained and hampered by my innate sense of justice.   (source)
    hampered = hindered
  • Nearly all of his father's presents were given with reservations which hampered their value somewhat.   (source)
  • They were hampered, of course, by the fact that they weren't allowed to wander off on their own but had to move around the castle in a pack with the other Gryffindors.†   (source)
  • He'll be hampered by her ability to see.†   (source)
  • '—heavy snowfall and high winds are predicted, hampering efforts of the military " Taking a sip from my coffee, I sat down next to them, leaning in to see what they were doing.†   (source)
  • She will be graduating in six months, and her chances of receiving a worthy position will only be hampered by your decision.†   (source)
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  • Her fear was something useless that only hampered her.†   (source)
  • They moved slowly to accommodate my pace, which was hampered by my chain-cuffed ankles.†   (source)
  • There had already been cases of American bioenginecring companies moving to another country so they would not be hampered by regulations and rules.†   (source)
  • He sensed his equilibrium was hampered by the total darkness and closed his eyes, coaxing his brain to ignore visual input.†   (source)
  • How could he forget that green dress, how it clung to the curve of her hips and hampered her running and showed the beauty of her shoulders.†   (source)
  • But either the arrow hampered her movement or her momentum carried her too far and she went on over Brian and had to turn and come back at him.†   (source)
  • The flash suits were designed for wars fought with harmless light; they offered little protection and seriously hampered movement if it came to hand-to-hand fighting in nullo.†   (source)
  • Lou, hampered by a leg muscle he'd injured on the first morning of the trek to Base Camp, was slow but competent.†   (source)
  • The social worker tried to intervene but was hampered by her seat belt.†   (source)
  • A hostile spring further hampered the fair's progress.†   (source)
  • The falling price of CKE stock hampered his ability to repay the loans.†   (source)
  • She struggled, but her efforts to tear herself free of the hands that held her—Lily's, narrow and bony with black fingernails—were hampered by her fear of dislodging Simon, who clung to her jacket with paws and teeth.†   (source)
  • He sought to effect a 'revaluation of all values,' so that the life force of the strongest should not be hampered by the weak.†   (source)
  • …them with drowning, for the child is now stronger than the parent, and the circumstances are such that the utmost of strength is required, and the arc of a child's life only appears for a while to match the arc of a parent's, in reality one sits atop the other, a hill atop a hill, a curve atop a curve, and Saeed's father's arc now needed to curve lower, while his son's still curved higher, for with an old man hampering them these two young people were simply less likely to survive.†   (source)
  • My willingness to do so was hampered by an abounding ignorance of how it should be done and a fumbling awkwardness with small objects.†   (source)
  • To the west, the Demeter cabin and Grover's nature spirits had turned Sixth Avenue into a jungle that was hampering a squadron of Kronos's demigods.†   (source)
  • The narrow streets and close-set buildings hampered Saphira's movements and made it difficult to react when soldiers attacked, even though Eragon could sense the men approaching long before they arrived.†   (source)
  • Each task was hampered by cultural differences.†   (source)
  • Stoddard had been stepping as best he could, hobbling along in the hampering leg chains, that were attached to the wrists also, and twitched on his hands with every step.†   (source)
  • In fact they hampered him.†   (source)
  • Now the unloading of equipment would be hampered by more than enemy artillery, and the mood among the high command was grim.†   (source)
  • There was nothing new on Heath except a grim report about how the weather was hampering search efforts.†   (source)
  • He remembered also that the men, so hampered, would be unable to fall properly during the impressive fainting ceremony preceding the marching and that an inability to faint properly might affect the unit's rating as a whole.†   (source)
  • The company, which specialized in vaccines and genetic research, had plants in several countries but was headquartered in Bangkok, where it had operated without the restrictions often hampering domestic pharmaceutical companies.†   (source)
  • The grim faces of the teachers and students in school reflected the newspaper headlines that told of Arab riots and attacks against the Jews of Palestine, Jewish defense measures, many of which were being hampered by the British, and continued Irgun activities.†   (source)
  • In two years, already hampered by the loss of one leg, Frank was in a wheelchair.†   (source)
  • Fear locked her in a vise, goading the blunt, clumsy limbs forward but hampering them at the same time.†   (source)
  • …snarled that the cause of the country's troubles, as this case demonstrated, was the selfish greed of rich industrialists; that it was men like Hank Rearden who were to blame for the shrinking diet, the falling temperature and the cracking roofs in the homes of the nation; that if it had not been for men who broke regulations and hampered the government's plans, prosperity would have been achieved long ago; and that a man like Hank Rearden was prompted by nothing but the profit motive.†   (source)
  • But he is hampered by the lack of railroads and telegraph lines through the rough and lawless countryside.†   (source)
  • And was again hampered and not just by being onearmed.†   (source)
  • And there were three broad categories: those who were ignorant, those who disapproved, and those who would be hampered in an illicit life-style.†   (source)
  • But when in 1961 the Umkhonto was formed, and a new phase of struggle introduced, we realized that these events would make a heavy call on our slender resources, and that the scale of our activities would be hampered by the lack of funds.†   (source)
  • Through such a weight of material her knees pushed slowly, her progress was hampered but she came on.†   (source)
  • We want to suggest standard best practices without hampering creative adjustment to local circumstances.
  • It was a treacherous descent and Dumbledore, hampered slightly by his withered hand, moved slowly.†   (source)
  • He'll pick up the bag later, he says, but right now he doesn't want to be hampered.†   (source)
  • He fought the evergreen for a better look, hampered more by his laughter than by the branches.†   (source)
  • The dream was too extravagant ever to be realized, and they were extremely reluctant to undertake its realization against the hampering and tampering, the interferences petty and great, which they felt were certain to ensue.†   (source)
  • The tax cuts that are hampering America's schools have proved to be a marketing bonanza for companies like Exxon, Pizza Hut, and McDonald's.†   (source)
  • Langdon's progress around his side of the Pantheon was being hampered somewhat by the guide on his heels, now continuing his tireless narration as Langdon prepared to check the final alcove.†   (source)
  • It was on brainfrizz: inciting to violence, membership in a banned organization, hampering the dissemination of commercial products, treasonable crimes against society.†   (source)
  • But sales of Birdseye's new products were hampered, among other things, by the fact that few American grocery stores, and even fewer households, owned a freezer.†   (source)
  • The trick was to get the hyoid apparatus modified and the voluntary nerve pathways connected and the neocortex control systems adapted without hampering the speech abilities.†   (source)
  • What well-to-do and once-young, once-beautiful woman or man, cranked up on hormonal supplements and shot full of vitamins but hampered by the unforgiving mirror, wouldn't sell their house, their gated retirement villa, their kids, and their soul to get a second kick at the sexual can?†   (source)
  • Eggs are regulated by the FDA, but chickens are regulated by the USDA, and a lack of cooperation between the two agencies has hampered efforts to reduce the levels of Salmonella in American eggs.†   (source)
  • When they couldnot, we decided to remain where we were, for it seemed safer than flying all the way to Vroengard when both of us were hampered by our injuries and we might be ambushed at any point along the journey.†   (source)
  • If he'd sat on the shelter bench, his view of the sales office would have been hampered by the merchandise parked in front of it.†   (source)
  • Uncle Pros, yet gasping, was trying to help Gray into the seat; but with his hampering manacles and the jerking of the car, the younger man was still on his knees, when the chase burst through the bushes, scarcely more than three hundred feet behind them.†   (source)
  • I told Granpa I was in no wise hampered atall; that I figgered I was gittin' the uppers on just about everything.†   (source)
  • Granpa said he had always been hampered with a suspicion of being frightened of the dark, and now would total depend on me to lead him about in dark situations.†   (source)
  • Although she was hampered by huge ignorances, but not in any way unintelligent, when she realized what her situation in the world was and would probably always be she threw away every assumption she had learned and began at zero.†   (source)
  • …Sophie told him that the message (characteristically sycophantic) was from a local subcontractor, a supplier of gravel to the German operators of the camp concrete factory, who said that he would be unable to transport the required amount of gravel in the required time, begging the Commandant's indulgence, due to the extremely soggy condition of the ground around his quarry that had not only caused several cave-ins but also hampered and slowed down the operation of his equipment.†   (source)
  • They just don't want to be hampered in making up to the officers, that's all.†   (source)
  • I felt different already, no longer hampered by my appearance.†   (source)
  • He was hampered by knowing no languages.†   (source)
  • He was hampered by knowing no languages.†   (source)
  • They gave victims liver extract, blood transfusions, and vitamins, especially B. The shortage of supplies and instruments hampered them.†   (source)
  • What a pity that a great industry, controlled by such brains, advanced by such enterprise, should be hampered by such unpronounceable names; Blyvooruitzicht, and Welgedacht, and Langlaagte, and now this Odendaalsrust.†   (source)
  • His smoothness was a huge satisfaction to him, as, also, his extraordinary English that hadn't hampered him in making a fortune, plus his insignificance in the old country--people gave way before his supple wrinkles and small eyes and, comparably, the onslaught of his six-cylinder car, a yellow Packard.†   (source)
  • That was what the word seminary meant: quiet and safe walls within which the hampered and garmentworried spirit could learn anew serenity to contemplate without horror or alarm its own nakedness.†   (source)
  • He was greatly hampered by his lack of book knowledge and of the knowledge of the meaning of characters written upon a paper with a camel's hair brush and ink.†   (source)
  • The remembered image is not only benign, however; for the "bad" mother too—(I) the absent, unattainable mother, against whom aggressive fantasies are directed, and from whom a counter-aggression is feared; (z) the hampering, forbidding, punishing mother; (3) the mother who would hold to herself the growing child trying to push away; and finally (4) the desired but forbidden mother (Oedipus complex) whose presence is a lure to dangerous desire (castration complex)—persists in the hidden…†   (source)
  • This meant that his horse had to be a slow and enormous weight-carrier, like the farm horse of today, and that his own movements were so hampered by his burden of iron and padding that they were toned down into slow motion, as on the cinema.†   (source)
  • In Italy the Communist Party is seriously hampered by having to support the Communist-trained Marshal Tito's claims to former Italian territory at the head of the Adriatic.†   (source)
  • In Italy the Communist Party is seriously hampered by having to support the Communist-trained Marshal Tito's claims to former Italian territory at the head of the Adriatic.†   (source)
  • Even so it remains obvious, even in the writing of Proust, that a man is terribly hampered and partial in his knowledge of women, as a woman in her knowledge of men.†   (source)
  • In the mixture there was beauty--a good proportion--and pimple-insolence, and parricide faces, gum-chew innocence, labor fodder and secretarial forces, Danish stability, Dago inspiration, catarrh-hampered mathematical genius; there were waxed-eared shovelers' children, sex-promising businessmen's daughters--an immense sampling of a tremendous host, the multitudes of holy writ, begotten by West-moving, factor-shoved parents.†   (source)
  • She started down the stairs, each step hampered by Wade's dragging hands and she said fiercely: "Turn me loose, Wade!†   (source)
  • So thought every harassed, hampered, respectable boy in St. Petersburg.†   (source)
  • They laid hold of my imagination, and hampered my tongue.†   (source)
  • But these buffalo had not been hampered with a wagon.†   (source)
  • But they were hampered by the national manners of these occasions.†   (source)
  • That it is apt to be hampered by material necessities or complicated by moral scruples?†   (source)
  • The horse, unused to such hampering of his free movements, had to be driven out upon the grass.†   (source)
  • No, dear; your mother may take quite a long drive now that she is not hampered with me.†   (source)
  • Take care—experto crede—take care not to get hampered about money matters.†   (source)
  • And then I was hampered with that bothering show, which I'm free of at last, thank the stars."†   (source)
  • All over-clothes here were worn as if they were an inconvenience, a hampering necessity.†   (source)
  • On his thin, weak legs were heavy chains which hampered his irresolute movements.†   (source)
  • I don't wish to be hampered by any restrictions in the compilation of my notes.†   (source)
  • With Henrietta surely I may go anywhere; she isn't hampered in that way.†   (source)
  • But in these great endeavors we are gravely hampered by the political institutions of today.†   (source)
  • Our conversation was hampered by the presence of the driver of the hired wagonette, so that we were forced to talk of trivial matters when our nerves were tense with emotion and anticipation.†   (source)
  • More than once she thought of going away from him during his absence at the mill; but she feared that this, instead of benefiting him, might be the means of hampering and humiliating him yet more if it should become known.†   (source)
  • Their memory hampered him.†   (source)
  • Mounted on lumbering wooden carriages they were hampered with cumbersome harness of breechen and strong side-tackles for running them out.†   (source)
  • And of all the excited performers-elect none was so excited as Anne Shirley, who threw herself into the undertaking heart and soul, hampered as she was by Marilla's disapproval.†   (source)
  • The hampered and lonely itinerant conscientiously covered up the marginal readings, and used them merely on points of construction, as he would have used a comrade or tutor who should have happened to be passing by.†   (source)
  • He delivered the thunders of his royalty upon the heads of all who hampered his liberties or tried to force him to service.†   (source)
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  • Angela, too frightened to notice that Sydelle ran through the apartment with her crutch in the air, found her partner in the bathroom frantically tossing soiled towels from the hamper.†   (source)
  • Perhaps I should make a try at gathering these things up, then stowing them away in their hamper, and none the wiser.†   (source)
  • Quietly, I slipped off the side of the bed, rummaged in the hamper for my bath robe, and then felt around on the floor for my slippers.†   (source)
  • I'll pack a hamper of food for your trip," she said.†   (source)
  • In my pinchy shoes, with dirty dishes clanking inside my sticky picnic hamper, this basket boy hiked all the way home.†   (source)
  • And Ambrosius Flume, of Honeydukes — a hamper every birthday, and all because I was able to give him an introduction to Ciceron Harkisss who gave him his first job!†   (source)
  • He threw his socks and underwear in the hamper, his work clothes in the work clothes bin.†   (source)
  • The savagery of pillow-fighting would leave me breathless, and there was a game that involved Noah and Simon tying me up and stuffing me in Hester's laundry hamper, where Hester would always discover me; before she'd untie me, she'd accuse me of sniffing her underwear.†   (source)
  • The incidental clutter was astounding to me, after the order of Professorji's apartment: chair frames without seats, wet towels on the floor, magazines and newspapers stuffed into a wicker clothes hamper, cardboard containers from a takeout place on the window ledge.†   (source)
  • He went in the house, returned with the laundry hamper, filled it with earth and carried it to the front yard.†   (source)
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  • Frederick is a decent runner, faster than Werner, but the commandant seems to count quickly this afternoon, and Frederick's head start has been abbreviated, and the snow hampers him, and he cannot be over twenty yards away when Bastian raises his right arm.†   (source)
  • Everything comes off and into the hamper.†   (source)
  • Grim comes inside and for once he doesn't tell me what a rat hole I'm living in, or how it smells like a locker room because I forgot to put my socks in the hamper.†   (source)
  • The rover heater is designed to heat air at one atmosphere, and the thin Martian air severely hampers its ability to work.†   (source)
  • The servants were seated in a cluster at the front, heating water for tea, shelling roasted gingko nuts, and emptying out hampers of food for a noonday meal of cold dishes.†   (source)
  • She flooded into my present, and only tact kept me from burying my face in the dirty laundry overfilling the hamper by her dresser.†   (source)
  • He buried his dirty clothes at the bottom of the hamper and dug all his leftover birthday and Christmas money out of his sock drawer.†   (source)
  • This new harshness of the weather would make his work more difficult, but with any luck it would hamper the German forces even more.†   (source)
  • 'Obviously with your eye span, there are going to be blind spots, but that shouldn't hamper you unduly.†   (source)
  • Within seconds of the child's departure, the others would swarm through the room, checking under the bed, in the closets and through the clothes hamper—everywhere —searching for clothes, toys or other valuables.†   (source)
  • The forest may hamper their progress…… Would it be possible to stop them with magic?†   (source)
  • It's as big as Mama's big white laundry hamper back home and seems like she's always got about ten hundred things piled up in there.†   (source)
  • I threw the towel in the hamper, flung my brush and toothpaste into my bag.†   (source)
  • Many people carried blankets and hampers of food but quickly found that no room remained to spread a picnic.†   (source)
  • Instead, it hampers him.†   (source)
  • The system now leaves countless unskilled and uneducated manual workers poorly compensated for injuries that will forever hamper their ability to earn a living.†   (source)
  • She disgusted herself It would be different if she were actually helping—bringing hampers of food, maybe, or joining her voice with the strikers' as they called out to passersby.†   (source)
  • She gave him a Styrofoam hamper full of sandwiches, chicken and coffee, and she cried as he set it down amid the gouged-out seat stuffing and slashed upholstery.†   (source)
  • Imagine a winter sweater that's been dragged through the mud and left in the laundry hamper for a week.†   (source)
  • Next I cleaned my room—my closet was looking slim, and sure enough, I filled the hamper with three loads of laundry.†   (source)
  • Today this quartet of old hunting companions had once again gathered to make the familiar journey, but in an unfamiliar spirit and armed with odd, non-sportive equipment-mops and pails, scrubbing brushes, and a hamper heaped with rags and strong detergents.†   (source)
  • She wanted to burn it, but she put it in the dirty. clothes hamper.†   (source)
  • If a death sentence was passed, we did not want to hamper the mass campaign that would surely spring up.†   (source)
  • I pulled out a bedsheet from the hamper, and for the rest of the afternoon lay down in the hallway underneath the water cooler, relieved that Mom hadn't found out about me almost shooting Pedi.†   (source)
  • I thought she'd leave my room then, but she started picking some clothes off my floor and putting them in my hamper.†   (source)
  • The house had always been clean, but now the sink was full of dishes and his hamper was overflowing.†   (source)
  • Elody once said it was lucky my mom never came into my room, or she would think I was dealing pot out of my dirty laundry hamper.†   (source)
  • Women in the seats with their empty hampers and baskets spoke to them softly as they made their way down the aisle.†   (source)
  • ] Back at home, White and his family struggled to pile "seven trunks, four bundles, four valises, two baskets, and one hamper of provisions" onto a wagon.†   (source)
  • If you see alphabetized CDs, a Harvard diploma on the wall, incense on a side table, and laundry neatly stacked in a hamper, you know certain aspects about that individual's personality instantly, in a way that you may not be able to grasp if all you ever do is spend time with him or her directly.†   (source)
  • The goal was to place the balls in a tall hamper—a combination of basketball and robot warfare, as machines were pitted against one another in a dash for balls.†   (source)
  • She made a face as she pushed aside a laundry hamper full of clothes, a football helmet, and some knee pads of Jess's brothers, but she didn't say anything.†   (source)
  • I lock my bedroom door and head straight to the hamper of clothes.†   (source)
  • Uaaxee returned with a hamper from which protruded a chicken wing as big as a turkey.†   (source)
  • In an hour or so the first of them be-gan to gather, mostly families who had come in broken-down wagons and shays, carrying their breakfasts with them-hampers of cold pancakes folded over fillings of wild strawberry jam.†   (source)
  • A few days later I opened the hamper and found it written in permanent marker on the label of his underwear.†   (source)
  • I crumpled up the sheet, pushing it down in the hamper under yesterday's sweaty practice jersey.†   (source)
  • Rob putters around, throwing things in hampers and boxes and casually saying farewells while Dr. Burton patiently mills about.†   (source)
  • There were fresh-looking clothes in a hamper, a washboard hung neatly above a sink.†   (source)
  • I pulled off my sweater and jeans, which stank from the sweltering parties, and tossed them into the hamper in the corner of my room.†   (source)
  • Or one of those picnic hampers with all the plates inside.†   (source)
  • Unless by giving them everything you have, you severely hamper any attempt to produce an antidote to the Raison Strain.†   (source)
  • Hall faced a tiled room, empty except for a hamper marked "clothing."†   (source)
  • All his shirts were in the hamper.†   (source)
  • In the mornings, my paint cans remain undisturbed and there are no suspicious stains on any of Mom's clothing in the hamper.†   (source)
  • The government required banks to report cash transactions of five thousand dollars or more, ostensibly to hamper attempts by drug lords to launder funds through legitimate financial institutions.†   (source)
  • No knight in the Seven Kingdoms could have stood against him at his full strength, with no chains to hamper him.†   (source)
  • Max scanned the page, murmuring aloud as David picked up a discarded sock and sniffed it before dropping it in a hamper.†   (source)
  • It would hamper the point of the assignment.†   (source)
  • She has already tidied up the room and made the bed, placing my hospital gowns in the plastic hamper in the bathroom and wiping down the surfaces with the used towels.†   (source)
  • Long, full skirts would hamper any woman who had walked and ridden along a road that almost ran under the ground.†   (source)
  • So he and Abby made the three-hour trip in the pickup, while Denny drove Abby's car with Susan in the passenger seat and the food hampers in the rear.†   (source)
  • Some have expressed concern that the unusual nature of this election might hamper the next president in the conduct of his office.†   (source)
  • Frequent Turnover Hampers Success†   (source)
  • I will appreciate your advice, although of course if I'm ever in the way at all, you must feel free, I mean, one must not hamper operations.†   (source)
  • Had she packed her clothes and hidden them somewhere, behind a bush, in the laundry hamper under the quilts and fried chicken?†   (source)
  • But don't read him until this is over; too many facts hamper a diplomat, especially an honest one.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Glass abruptly leaned her weight forward, without getting up, and reached out and picked up something from the top of the laundry hamper.†   (source)
  • In that hamper over there.†   (source)
  • She got copies of Today magazine in braille, which cost him plenty, and kept them piled like old telephone books on the wicker hamper in the bathroom.†   (source)
  • Put your suitcase down and go get your hamper.†   (source)
  • She saw that the hand towel which covered this table was dusty, and threw it into the dirty-clothes hamper, and replaced it with a fresh one, and replaced that with a dainty linen guest towel upon the border of which pansies and violets were embroidered.†   (source)
  • The sun dropped down to the horizon and they changed into their clothes, took drinks from the hamper, and walked out to the jetty's end to see the sunset while Peter and Mary got busy with the supper.†   (source)
  • Our little girl ran about in the sun bare and beautiful as she grew, with no clothes to hamper her limbs or confine her movements.†   (source)
  • I dug his business card out of a pair of shorts in the laundry hamper.†   (source)
  • Whoever had ransacked my hamper had critically impaired my wardrobe.†   (source)
  • Everything comes off and into the hamper.†   (source)
  • A bra and panties lay mashed on top of the hamper.†   (source)
  • But that red shirt really wasn't dirty, so I went to save it from the hamper.†   (source)
  • The farmer jumped down to load my valise and food hamper into the back of the wagon.†   (source)
  • If only that blasted farmer had left our food hamper!†   (source)
  • My hamper wasn't empty, but it wasn't overflowing, the way I thought it had been.†   (source)
  • Against the wall, she saw the hamper; a phone sat on the floor near the head of the bed.†   (source)
  • David finally emerged from behind his curtain, having opted for a wooly brown robe from the hamper.†   (source)
  • The cheesemonger woke when they stopped to change the horses and sent for a fresh hamper.†   (source)
  • He understood all that was before him, and further contemplation would only hamper him.†   (source)
  • The present Government has always sought to hamper Africans in their search for education.†   (source)
  • It weighs nothing this way and doesn't hamper my shooting arm.†   (source)
  • Almost everything was packed, but there was still a little room left in the box and in the hampers.†   (source)
  • She looked in the hamper.†   (source)
  • He hears his mother's voice telling him to put the discarded sheet into the laundry hamper — old neurological pathways die hard — but he drops it onto the floor instead and goes back downstairs, into the kitchen.†   (source)
  • My Aunt Pauline brought a good linen sheet, only a little flawed, from the shop; and a thick warm shawl, as she'd heard it was cold on the other side of the ocean; and a little wicker hamper, and inside it, packed in straw, a china teapot, and two cups and saucers, with roses on them.†   (source)
  • The servants had already packed and loaded a rickshaw with the day's basic provisions: a woven hamper filled with zong zi-- the sticky rice wrapped in lotus leaves, some filled with roasted ham, some with sweet lotus seeds; a small stove for boiling water for hot tea; another hamper containing cups and bowls and chopsticks; a cotton sack of apples, pomegranates, and pears; sweaty earthen jars of preserved meats and vegetables; stacks of red boxes lined with four mooncakes each; and of…†   (source)
  • "And all these people know where to find you, to send you stuff?" asked Harry, who could not help wondering why the Death Eaters had not yet tracked down Slughorn if hampers of sweets, Quidditch tickets, and visitors craving his advice and opinions could find him.†   (source)
  • I returned to the front yard and busied myself for two hours erecting a complicated breastworks at the side of the porch, consisting of a tire, an orange crate, the laundry hamper, the porch chairs, and a small U.S. flag Jem gave me from a popcorn box.†   (source)
  • Even the Weekday Warriors, who got to go home every weekend, had beer and liquor stashed everywhere from toilet tanks to the bottoms of dirty-clothes hampers.†   (source)
  • I delved about in the hamper, narrowly saving myself from toppling into it head first, and fished out what I thought I could carry, avoiding nostalgia for the undergarments of yesteryear.†   (source)
  • The boxes we would not need on board were taken to a special room, which was to be kept locked to prevent thievery, and the store of food which we had brought with us for the voyage had its own place too; but the blankets and sheets went below into our beds; and our mother insisted on keeping Aunt Pauline's teapot with her, as she did not want to let it out of her sight; and she tied the wicker hamper to the upright post of the bed with a piece of twine.†   (source)
  • In the linen closet was where I found the past, and the reason was that Rose and I always washed the sheets on Daddy's bed and put them back on, and we always washed the towels and washcloths in the bathroom hamper and hung them back up.†   (source)
  • As Christmastime came around, spirits rose; and the fires were built up larger, and hampers were delivered from the grocer, and great wedges of beef, and the carcass of a pig from the butcher, which was to be roasted whole; and bustling preparations were made in the kitchen; and Mary and I were called away from the laundry, to give a hand, and we stirred and mixed for Cook, and peeled and sliced the apples, and picked through the raisins and currants, and grated the nutmegs, and beat…†   (source)
  • There's a hamper overflowing with dirty clothing and paper robes hanging from hooks next to a white curtain.†   (source)
  • He did not seem at all unhealthy to us: he never coughed, for instance… He was stocky, tweed-covered, thirty or thirty-five perhaps, with reddish hair and a plump wet red mouth, and a tiny goatee and a cutting irony and a nasty temper, and a smell like the bottom of a damp laundry hamper.†   (source)
  • I knew the laundry was building up, so after I put my toothpaste away and threw my dirty clothes in the hamper, I went to strip Charlie's bed.†   (source)
  • She was undressing, tossing her clothes in the hamper and looking forward to a cool shower, when she saw the blinking light on the answering machine.†   (source)
  • Calculated or not, he has taken some time to charm me, has helped me pick out several splendid rugs from Persia (bought in Luxor) and a great deal of woven wicker-baskets and hampers mostly, some seventyfive in all.†   (source)
  • I recounted in detail the numerous times the government had used the law to hamper my life, career, and political work, through bannings, restrictions, and trials.†   (source)
  • " "Maybe I should just wait here" Misty said, and stacked those plump bed pillows, put the plastic red plates and tumblers back in the laundry hamper they had brought.†   (source)
  • He unzipped his jumpsuit and dropped it into the hamper; there was a brief flash of light as it was incinerated.†   (source)
  • A train of mules trailed behind them, carrying chests and casks and barrels, and hampers of delectables to keep the lord of cheese from growing peckish.†   (source)
  • If they went upstairs, they would see several hampers of laundry to be done, my bathroom basin and tub and toilet in dire need of a scrub, and all kinds of robes and towels hung over the doors.†   (source)
  • The doctor stood thinking of all this, then he went down the back stairs to get his wicker hamper from the hall.†   (source)
  • When he came in carrying his hamper she jumped up with a shy, graceful movement, blushing crimson, shook the feathers from her apron, and, after greeting him respectfully, offered to help him.†   (source)
  • Behind the partition that separated the living quarters from the studio, there stood a big wicker hamper and another, smaller one of Lara's, a suitcase, a box of crockery, and several sacks.†   (source)
  • They were standing in the middle of the street with wicker hamper and suitcase blocking the way, and the passers-by, as they walked around them, looked them over from head to foot, and stared at the cab as it pulled away from the curb and at trie wide-open front door, to see what would happen next.†   (source)
  • Every now and then Lara thought of something else she meant to take and put it into one of the hampers, rearranging things to make it tidy.†   (source)
  • No trunks or hampers (there won't be any porters); be sure to take nothing useless and tie up everything in bundles small enough for a woman or a child to carry.†   (source)
  • Then she set to work feverishly stuffing the bed linen into the hampers, strapping up the luggage and tying it with ropes, and begging Pasha and the janitor's wife just not to bother her by trying to help.†   (source)
  • Of course, you ain't got any family to have to drag around and hamper you.†   (source)
  • A great hamper in the bedroom held the clothes that she brought home.†   (source)
  • The room was small and the hamper stood hard by the foot of the white iron bed.†   (source)
  • The gym suit I threw into the clothes hamper and put the tennis shoes into the garbage can, but the other things I saved for Lorraine.†   (source)
  • Any prolonged absence of the parent causes tension in the infant and consequent impulses of aggression; also, when the mother is obliged to hamper the child, aggressive responses are aroused.†   (source)
  • They swarmed through the rooms, asking questions, opening closets, prodding clothes hampers, peering under beds.†   (source)
  • She showed the porters where to lay down the great wicker hampers and set about unpacking the altar, the brazier, the tapestries and the portraits of Dona Clara.†   (source)
  • They went to the station in the street-car: Ben and Grover gleefully sat together, guarding a big luncheon hamper.†   (source)
  • He stood leaning informally against the back of Scarret's chair, and Scarret sat staring down at a hamper full of mail by the side of his desk.†   (source)
  • Hampers.†   (source)
  • But the affectation of the style, with its imitation of the eighteenth century, hampers one, so far as I can remember; unless indeed the eighteenth-century style was natural to Thackeray—a fact that one might prove by looking at the manuscript and seeing whether the alterations were for the benefit of the style or of the sense.†   (source)
  • Love triumphed as he realized that it was enough for a girl to be sweet and gentle and beautiful, without having an education to hamper her charms, and he made swift answer: "The Borgias were Italians."†   (source)
  • Toohey sat down on the edge of Scarret's desk and let the tip of his pointed shoe play among the envelopes in the hamper, tossing them up, making them rustle.†   (source)
  • With these packed in a great hamper, he would peddle his wares through the neighborhood, selling them easily and delightfully, in a world of fragrant morning cookery, at five or ten cents a basket.†   (source)
  • Alvah Scarret had to be kept away from the room where hampers of letters to the editor were being filled each day; he started by reading the letters—and his friends on the staff undertook to prevent a repetition of the experience, fearing a stroke.†   (source)
  • He would return home gleefully with empty hamper in time for breakfast: he liked the work, the smell of gardens, of fresh wet vegetables; he loved the romantic structure of the earth which filled his pocket with chinking coins.†   (source)
  • This time she decided she need not bring the hamper out of the bedroom; she would go in there and do the sorting.†   (source)
  • One wagon, ahead of the others, bore four stout negroes with axes to cut evergreens and drag down the vines, and the back of this wagon was piled high with napkin-covered hampers, split-oak baskets of lunch and a dozen watermelons.†   (source)
  • No attempts to hamper me, or capture me!†   (source)
  • No fear or awkwardness of hers should be allowed to hamper that thoroughbred mustang.†   (source)
  • Rody Kickham had greaves in his number and a hamper in the refectory.†   (source)
  • He dumped down a big hamper on the kitchen flags.†   (source)
  • I see Mrs. Barker doing up the lunch in a hamper and a great basket.†   (source)
  • I don't want to hamper you …. not ….'†   (source)
  • I expected a hamper from Peggotty, and brightened at the order.†   (source)
  • Then the children undid the hamper.†   (source)
  • He had shovelled away an the beliefs that would hamper him, had cleared the ground, and come more or less to the bedrock of belief that one should feel inside oneself for right and wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God.†   (source)
  • Good gracious, said Elizabeth, no. And her mother would come calling to say that a hamper had come from Bourton and would Miss Kilman like some flowers?†   (source)
  • It—hampers me so.†   (source)
  • Together Martin and Orchid carried in the hamper of food; together they slid down the hillocks on skiis.†   (source)
  • Mr. van der Luyden protested; and Archer guessed that he was remembering, and resenting, the hampers of carnations he had sent to the little house in Twenty-third Street.†   (source)
  • I never thought again of this page, but at the moment when, on my corner of the box-seat, where the Doctor's coachman was in the habit of placing, in a hamper, the fowls which he had bought at Martinville market, I had finished writing it, I found such a sense of happiness, felt that it had so entirely relieved my mind of the obsession of the steeples, and of the mystery which they concealed, that, as though I myself were a hen and had just laid an egg, I began to sing at the top of my…†   (source)
  • When I went downstairs in the morning, I found grandmother and Jake packing a hamper basket in the kitchen.†   (source)
  • It was no very easy task, for the skiff lay amidships and was full of hamper, and the breaking of the heavier seas continually forced us to give over and hold on; but we all wrought like horses while we could.†   (source)
  • At last she started, the coast being clear, and on passing the poulterer's shop, not far off, she saw her pigeons in a hamper by the door.†   (source)
  • Grandmother went on talking in her polite Virginia way, not admitting their stark need or her own remissness, until Jake arrived with the hamper, as if in direct answer to Mrs. Shimerda's reproaches.†   (source)
  • It's odd she didn't mention it: she lunched with us today, and spoke of Mr. Beaufort's having sent her wonderful orchids, and cousin Henry van der Luyden a whole hamper of carnations from Skuytercliff.†   (source)
  • It takes two or three generations to do what I tried to do in one; and my impulses—affections—vices perhaps they should be called—were too strong not to hamper a man without advantages; who should be as cold-blooded as a fish and as selfish as a pig to have a really good chance of being one of his country's worthies.†   (source)
  • What was left of the second sheet and the Brunswick black came in very nicely to make a banner bearing the legend SHE IS NEARLY WELL, THANK YOU and this was displayed to the Green Dragon about a fortnight after the arrival of the wonderful hamper.†   (source)
  • "Well, for my part," said Athos, "I found Aramis's Spanish wine so good that I sent on a hamper of sixty bottles of it in the wagon with the lackeys.†   (source)
  • Drinking-tents were full, glasses began to clink in carriages, hampers to be unpacked, tempting provisions to be set forth, knives and forks to rattle, champagne corks to fly, eyes to brighten that were not dull before, and pickpockets to count their gains during the last heat.†   (source)
  • I won't hamper you in any way.†   (source)
  • The coarse hardware was spread out on the ground between pyramids of eggs and hampers of cheeses, from which sticky straw stuck out.†   (source)
  • I shall ware every watch, and then we shall be safe against all dangers but those of the drift, which, in a light low craft like this, without top-hamper, will be next to nothing.†   (source)
  • What's the use o' law when a man's once such a fool as to let a woman into his house?" said Bartle, turning away from the hamper with some bitterness.†   (source)
  • But no hamper.†   (source)
  • Snuff-boxes were given away in profusion (as we learned from the Court jeweller, who sold and afterwards bought them again), and bushels of the Order of Saint Michael of Pumpernickel were sent to the nobles of the Court, while hampers of the cordons and decorations of the Wheel of St. Catherine of Schlippenschloppen were brought to ours.†   (source)
  • Thus equipped he was taught to mount cocoanut palms and other lofty trees, and to bring down their fruit in the hamper.†   (source)
  • The surface of this long sheet–iron cigar no longer offered a single protrusion that could hamper its maneuvers.†   (source)
  • I put it on, to try it, and it weighed me down like a hamper, being uncommonly shaggy and thick, and I thought a little damp, as though this mysterious harpooneer had been wearing it of a rainy day.†   (source)
  • Holding by a shroud, Starbuck was standing on the quarter-deck; at every flash of the lightning glancing aloft, to see what additional disaster might have befallen the intricate hamper there; while Stubb and Flask were directing the men in the higher hoisting and firmer lashing of the boats.†   (source)
  • In the first place, you are aware of my views' (it was very sweet to Arkady to utter that word); 'and secondly, could I be willing to hamper your life, your habits in the least thing?†   (source)
  • The Nautilus's men attached to each fish's tail a ring that was big enough not to hamper its movements, and to this ring a long rope whose other end was moored on board.†   (source)
  • The last was the most serious danger; for, though exceedingly weatherly under her canvas, and totally without top-hamper, the Scud was so light, that the combing of the swells would seem at times to wash her down to leeward with a velocity as great as that of the surges themselves.†   (source)
  • He brought out of the pantry a dish of scraps, which Vixen at once fixed her eyes on, and jumped out of her hamper to lick up with the utmost dispatch.†   (source)
  • But next time, for a change, I'll give you a turkeycock, unless you have a preference for some dabs; and send me back the hamper, if you please, with the two old ones.†   (source)
  • A few hampers, half-a-dozen broken bottles, and such-like rubbish, may be thrown there, when the tenant first moves in, but nothing more; and there they remain until he goes away again: the damp straw taking just as long to moulder as it thinks proper: and mingling with the scanty box, and stunted everbrowns, and broken flower-pots, that are scattered mournfully about—a prey to 'blacks' and dirt.†   (source)
  • Having enjoyed the fruit ourselves, we filled the hamper Knips always carried, and secured the fruit from his pilfering paws with leaves fixed firmly down.†   (source)
  • At sunset the tent was struck, hampers packed, wickets pulled up, boats loaded, and the whole party floated down the river, singing at the tops of their voices.†   (source)
  • Whether fagged by the three days' running chase, and the resistance to his swimming in the knotted hamper he bore; or whether it was some latent deceitfulness and malice in him: whichever was true, the White Whale's way now began to abate, as it seemed, from the boat so rapidly nearing him once more; though indeed the whale's last start had not been so long a one as before.†   (source)
  • I provided, and sent down by the Norwood coach the night before, a delicate little hamper, amounting in itself, I thought, almost to a declaration.†   (source)
  • The ostrich was then relieved of his unusual burden, the animals were speedily equipped, and Lightfoot bearing the baskets and hampers, the whole party mounted and trotted forwards.†   (source)
  • But towards the close, the raps became so sharp and frequent, and his voice so quarrelsome, that Vixen felt it incumbent on her to jump out of the hamper and bark vaguely.†   (source)
  • Some of the inhabitants of Yonville came out into the square; they all spoke at once, asking for news, for explanations, for hampers.†   (source)
  • Vixen returned to her hamper again in humiliation, and her master continued his supper in a silence which Adam did not choose to interrupt; he knew the old man would be in a better humour when he had had his supper and lighted his pipe.†   (source)
  • For example: the day after that on which I was obliged to appear against him, he made certain revelations touching a hamper in the cellar, which we believed to be full of wine, but which had nothing in it except bottles and corks.†   (source)
  • There were only those three, their hamper, my hamper, and the guitar-case, in the phaeton; and, of course, the phaeton was open; and I rode behind it, and Dora sat with her back to the horses, looking towards me.†   (source)
  • "Well, Vixen, well then, how are the babbies?" said the schoolmaster, making haste towards the chimney-corner and holding the candle over the low hamper, where two extremely blind puppies lifted up their heads towards the light from a nest of flannel and wool.†   (source)
  • Vixen could not even see her master look at them without painful excitement: she got into the hamper and got out again the next moment, and behaved with true feminine folly, though looking all the while as wise as a dwarf with a large old-fashioned head and body on the most abbreviated legs.†   (source)
  • He placed them all on the round deal table which stood against his large arm-chair in the chimney-corner, with Vixen's hamper on one side of it and a window-shelf with a few books piled up in it on the other.†   (source)
  • Whenever my turn comes to lust for demolition of some city whose people may be favorites of yours, do not hamper my fury!†   (source)
  • with great prejudice to that of the people; that I was much obliged to him (the governor) for his professions of regard to me, and that he might rely on every thing in my power to make his administration as easy as possible, hoping at the same time that he had not brought with him the same unfortunate instruction his predecessor had been hamper'd with.†   (source)
  • There in the clothes hamper he finds Norma's underwear with dried blood.†   (source)
  • Well, at least she wouldn't hamper me further.†   (source)
  • …complied.
    They trundled the wagon out now, rolling smoothly,
    backed the mule-team into the traces, hitched them up,
    while the princess brought her finery from the room

    and piled it into the wagon's polished cradle.
    Her mother packed a hamper—treats of all kinds,
    favorite things to refresh her daughter's spirits—
    poured wine in a skin, and as Nausicaa climbed aboard,
    the queen gave her a golden flask of suppling olive oil
    for her and her maids to smooth on after…†   (source)
  • There is a closet in the bathroom where the clothes hamper is, and he likes to take out all the clothes and look at them.†   (source)
  • The guide, a dour-looking little man in weather-beaten cotton shirt and twill trousers, stowed the picnic hamper tidily beneath the seat, and offered me a callused hand down into the well of the boat.†   (source)
  • If that hamper is in his way, Mr MacKenzie, move it over on yourside.†   (source)
  • Only I'd grabbed up her damn hamper of wine and done it if it had been me.†   (source)
  • I broughta hamper of wine because I thinkyoung gentlemen should drink wine, although my father,Gerald's grandfather " everdo thatHave you everdone that In the gray darkness alittle light herhandslocked about "They do, when they can get it," Spoade said.†   (source)
  • …you thought I wasin the house where that damn honeysuckle trying not to think the swing the cedars the secret surges the breathinglockeddrinking the wild breath the yes Yes Yesyes "never be got to drink wine himself, but he always said that a hamper what book did you read thatin the one where Gerald's rowing suit ofwinewas a necessary part of any gentlemen's picnic basket" did youlove them Caddydid youlove them When they touchedme Idied one minute she was standing there the next he was…†   (source)
  • No more than a brief glance at these classifications is needed to show that they hamper the inquiry by limiting its scope—not so much, to be sure, as the ridiculous limitations of White and Lounsbury, but still very seriously.†   (source)
  • 1, and the hamper was directed by a label on the cording.†   (source)
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