All 10 Uses of
hindrance
in
Anna Karenina
- It seemed to her that such principles could only be a hindrance in farm management.†
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- His own peasants put every hindrance they could in the way of this new arrangement, but it was carried out, and the first year the meadows had yielded a profit almost double.†
Part 3
- There's only one way of having love conveniently without its being a hindrance—that's marriage.†
Part 3
- In spite of the magnificent harvest, never had there been, or, at least, never it seemed to him, had there been so many hindrances and so many quarrels between him and the peasants as that year, and the origin of these failures and this hostility was now perfectly comprehensible to him.†
Part 3
- "But that's no hindrance to your loving your wife."†
Part 5
- The cuttlefish is no hindrance.†
Part 5
- The wife is the hindrance.†
Part 5
- You would be a hindrance to me," said Levin, trying to be cool.†
Part 5
- But with the hindrances that confronted him in his business, no one could explain why they existed.†
Part 6
- Princess Varvara is no help, but a hindrance.†
Part 6
Definition:
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(hindrance) any obstruction that is burdensome