All 8 Uses of
thwart
in
Middlemarch
- He was at a starting-point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose, with all the possible thwartings and furtherings of circumstance, all the niceties of inward balance, by which a man swims and makes his point or else is carried headlong.†
Chpt 2
- But how if another claw in the shape of me is straining to thwart it?†
Chpt 2 *
- But she hesitated, fearing to offend him by obtruding herself; for her ardor, continually repulsed, served, with her intense memory, to heighten her dread, as thwarted energy subsides into a shudder; and she wandered slowly round the nearer clumps of trees until she saw him advancing.†
Chpt 4
- Half the town would almost take trouble for the sake of thwarting him.†
Chpt 5
- Mr. Bulstrode saw in it not only medical jealousy but a determination to thwart himself, prompted mainly by a hatred of that vital religion of which he had striven to be an effectual lay representative—a hatred which certainly found pretexts apart from religion such as were only too easy to find in the entanglements of human action.†
Chpt 5
- The book and they must part, but day by day, In lines that thwart like portly spiders ran They wrote the tale, from Tully Veolan.†
Chpt 6
- But this power of generalizing which gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals, was immediately thwarted by Lydgate's memory of wondering impressions from the behavior of another woman—from Dorothea's looks and tones of emotion about her husband when Lydgate began to attend him—from her passionate cry to be taught what would best comfort that man for whose sake it seemed as if she must quell every impulse in her except the yearnings of faithfulness and…†
Chpt 6
- He had meant everything to turn out differently; and others had thrust themselves into his life and thwarted his purposes.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(thwart) to prevent something