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  • He had outgrown hindrances faster than the H–G men could think them up.†   (source)
  • Or until it is found in your despite, and the Ruler has time to turn to lighter matters: to devise, say, a fitting reward for the hindrance and insolence of Gandalf the Grey.†   (source)
  • His lawyer, Wade Lanier, was far more experienced, and, frankly, was worried that Rush would be a hindrance at trial.†   (source)
  • Once upon a time she had dreamt that the two of them might rule the Seven Kingdoms side by side, but Jaime had become more of a hindrance than a help.†   (source)
  • I'm just saying, from experience, it hasn't really been a hindrance.†   (source)
  • It is impiety even to place hindrances in their ways.†   (source)
  • And I'm really starting to believe that my relationship with Josh has been a hindrance to my relationship with Jesus all along (just consider the way we started out!†   (source)
  • She had learned not to argue with Mrs. Whitshank, who was a force of nature when it came to cooking and would only find Abby a hindrance.†   (source)
  • All the Confederates can do is hug the ground and pray as the Union gunners take "their artillery practice without let or hindrance."†   (source)
  • 'An automobile is a hindrance in Hong Kong,' said Wenzu, looking at the clock on the wall of his office in the headquarters of MI6, Special Branch.†   (source)
  • One day I found that I was striding long distances without hindrance, my bundle light.†   (source)
  • But how long, Oedipa thought, could it go on before collisions became a serious hindrance?†   (source)
  • Putting more people on the project at this late date would be more a hindrance than a help.
  • The door had been locked, of course, but locked doors have never proved much of a hindrance to me.†   (source)
  • Your father … he thinks he'd be a hindrance more than a help right now.†   (source)
  • Then with little further hindrance, save from sprawling briars and many fallen stones, they moved forward all together.†   (source)
  • This was troublesome, for at the quarry we would hold discussions among ourselves, and a warder who did not permit us to talk was a great hindrance.†   (source)
  • They walked out past a large parabolic dune and it was so draggingly hot out here that the air seemed a form of physical hindrance.†   (source)
  • Only those four miles wouldn't have been a hindrance if the right feelings were kindled.†   (source)
  • Jarvis picked it up and restored it to him, but the old man put it down as a hindrance, and he put down his hat also, and tried to lift himself up by pressing his hands on the steps.†   (source)
  • It is doubtful if the outcome of Andres's mission would have been any different if he and Gomez had been allowed to proceed without Andre Marty's hindrance.†   (source)
  • Then it is just a familiar low oblong shape without any significance at all, low at the street end of the shallow lawn; it too might have grown up out of the tragic and inescapable earth along with the low spreading maples and the shrubs, without help or hindrance from him.†   (source)
  • It's hindrance he needs'; thinking remembering the comastate of dreamy yet maniacal suspension in which the old man had moved from place to place a little behind the woman since he had met them twelve hours ago.†   (source)
  • Short of brushing the throat of a rival or hindrance with a poison feather at the dinner table, of course, as Nero had done.†   (source)
  • He loved feats and worshiped endurance, and he took between his teeth all objections, difficulties, hindrances, and chewed and swallowed them down.†   (source)
  • 'It's hindrance he needs.†   (source)
  • Whereas now--well, it was probably no accident that it was the cripple Hephaestus who made ingenious machines; a normal man didn't have to hoist or jack himself over hindrances by means of cranks, chains, and metal parts.†   (source)
  • They seemed a part of the silence, rather than a break in it or a hindrance to the feeling of it.†   (source)
  • The King may do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly wronged.†   (source)
  • His temper now, as well as his judgment, was a hindrance to efficiency.†   (source)
  • All the things I thought I'd learnt are just a hindrance, they're not knowledge at all.†   (source)
  • For a man of his tremendous strength and endurance the extreme of toil was no hindrance.†   (source)
  • He says he is so busy that everything is a hindrance, and yet he lies in bed doing nothing.†   (source)
  • Without hindrance I inserted my key, opened it, and entered.†   (source)
  • 'Have I been such a hindrance till now?' said Kim, with a boy's giggle.†   (source)
  • To your going there shall be no let or hindrance.†   (source)
  • "Youth is no hindrance to courage," muttered Sukhtelen in a failing voice.†   (source)
  • It seemed to her that such principles could only be a hindrance in farm management.†   (source)
  • "But that's no hindrance to your loving your wife."†   (source)
  • "But there is another hindrance," said Fred, coloring.†   (source)
  • And, besides, being drunk would be no hindrance.†   (source)
  • There's only one way of having love conveniently without its being a hindrance—that's marriage.†   (source)
  • Princess Varvara is no help, but a hindrance.†   (source)
  • You would be a hindrance to me," said Levin, trying to be cool.†   (source)
  • But with the hindrances that confronted him in his business, no one could explain why they existed.†   (source)
  • He continued to stare at M. Riviere perplexedly, wondering how to tell him that his very superiorities and advantages would be the surest hindrance to success.†   (source)
  • It seemed a monstrous, unnatural, unwarranted condition which had suddenly descended upon him without his let or hindrance.†   (source)
  • When she thought of her daughters, she said to herself sorrowfully that she was a hindrance rather than a help to their future, that her character and temper were absurd, ridiculous, insupportable.†   (source)
  • The boon was granted, as your Majesty knoweth; and there hath been no time, these four hundred years, that that line has failed of an heir; and so, even unto this day, the head of that ancient house still weareth his hat or helm before the King's Majesty, without let or hindrance, and this none other may do.†   (source)
  • Her forefathers had been Vikings, savage chieftains who bore no cross and brooked no hindrance to their will.†   (source)
  • It's not to be supposed that I would be any hindrance to gentlemen in your situation; that would be a singular thing!" cries he, and began to pull gold out of his pocket with a mighty red face.†   (source)
  • If that's the way you feel, if I'm such a hindrance to you, I can't stay under this roof another minute.†   (source)
  • His father explained that they wanted something done if possible, it was such a hindrance to the kid in earning his living.†   (source)
  • 'Nothing in the world moved before his eyes, and he could depict to himself without hindrance the sudden swing upwards of the dark sky-line, the sudden tilt up of the vast plain of the sea, the swift still rise, the brutal fling, the grasp of the abyss, the struggle without hope, the starlight closing over his head for ever like the vault of a tomb—the revolt of his young life—the black end.†   (source)
  • Physical courage and the love of battle, for instance, are no great help—may even be hindrances—to a civilized man.†   (source)
  • This would have been no serious hindrance on a week-day; they would have clicked through it in their high patterns and boots quite unconcerned; but on this day of vanity, this Sun's-day, when flesh went forth to coquet with flesh while hypocritically affecting business with spiritual things; on this occasion for wearing their white stockings and thin shoes, and their pink, white, and lilac gowns, on which every mud spot would be visible, the pool was an awkward impediment.†   (source)
  • I own that my heart began to fail me when the time for action came so close, but I did not say anything, for I had a greater fear that if I appeared as a drag or a hindrance to their work, they might even leave me out of their counsels altogether.†   (source)
  • I won't be a hindrance to you.†   (source)
  • Would it be a spot in which, without fear of farmers, or hindrance, or ridicule, he could watch and wait, and set himself to some mighty undertaking like the men of old of whom he had heard?†   (source)
  • He said to himself, "Truly it is like what I was used to feel when I read the old priest's tales, and did imagine mine own self a prince, giving law and command to all, saying 'Do this, do that,' whilst none durst offer let or hindrance to my will."†   (source)
  • At the outset he discovered Bess to be both a considerable help in some ways and a very great hindrance in others.†   (source)
  • Not regardful of themselves alone, they had taken care to bring Father Time, to try every means of making him kindle and laugh like other boys, though he was to some extent a hindrance to the delightfully unreserved intercourse in their pilgrimages which they so much enjoyed.†   (source)
  • The blizzard of Montana or the torrid sirocco of the Staked Plain was no hindrance to the travel of the buffalo.†   (source)
  • The general considered that the girls' taste and good sense should be allowed to develop and mature deliberately, and that the parents' duty should merely be to keep watch, in order that no strange or undesirable choice be made; but that the selection once effected, both father and mother were bound from that moment to enter heart and soul into the cause, and to see that the matter progressed without hindrance until the altar should be happily reached.†   (source)
  • …who are able to go back, and still back, down the stream of time, and recall the crowning of Richard III. and the troublous days of that old forgotten age; and there are handsome middle-aged dames; and lovely and gracious young matrons; and gentle and beautiful young girls, with beaming eyes and fresh complexions, who may possibly put on their jewelled coronets awkwardly when the great time comes; for the matter will be new to them, and their excitement will be a sore hindrance.†   (source)
  • Among the many hindrances to such a pleading not the least was this, that he did not sufficiently value himself to lessen his sufferings by strenuous appeal or elaborate argument.†   (source)
  • I dangers dared; I hindrance scorned I omens did defy: Whatever menaced, harassed, warned, I passed impetuous by.†   (source)
  • Let no one think me a hindrance.†   (source)
  • This method of collecting taxes is slow as well as inconvenient, and it would prove a perpetual hindrance to a Government whose pecuniary demands were large.†   (source)
  • And then there was such comfort in the very easy distance of Randalls from Hartfield, so convenient for even solitary female walking, and in Mr. Weston's disposition and circumstances, which would make the approaching season no hindrance to their spending half the evenings in the week together.†   (source)
  • I could not but smile to see how industriously they locked the door on my meditations, which followed them out again without let or hindrance, and they were really all that was dangerous.†   (source)
  • Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.†   (source)
  • No doubt there is a staggering absurdity in appointing an ordinary clerk to see that the leaders of European literature do not corrupt the morals of the nation, and to restrain Sir Henry Irving, as a rogue and a vagabond, from presuming to impersonate Samson or David on the stage, though any other sort of artist may daub these scriptural figures on a signboard or carve them on a tombstone without hindrance.†   (source)
  • I told him I was very glad, as indeed I was, to have been no hindrance to him, and that I hoped I should be none now.†   (source)
  • Those whose eyes twenty-five and more years before had seen "the glory of the coming of the Lord," saw in every present hindrance or help a dark fatalism bound to bring all things right in His own good time.†   (source)
  • Free even to the definition of freedom, "without any hindrance that does not arise out of his own constitution."†   (source)
  • As the minuteness of the parts formed a great hindrance to my speed, I resolved, contrary to my first intention, to make the being of a gigantic stature, that is to say, about eight feet in height, and proportionably large.†   (source)
  • Everyone was too busy with their own affairs to help her, and the little girls were only hindrances, for the dears fussed and chattered like so many magpies, making a great deal of confusion in their artless efforts to preserve the most perfect order.†   (source)
  • Here and there is born a Saint Theresa, foundress of nothing, whose loving heart-beats and sobs after an unattained goodness tremble off and are dispersed among hindrances, instead of centring in some long-recognizable deed.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately the erratic crumb did not improve his narrative powers, and a supplementary hindrance was that of a sneeze, jerking from his pocket his rather large watch, which dangled in front of the young man pendulum-wise.†   (source)
  • Thanks to Heaven's mercy, he had made the voyage successfully, and had reached home without hindrance.†   (source)
  • I would not have the shadow of a coolness between the two whose intimacy I have been observing with the greatest pleasure, and in whose characters there is so much general resemblance in true generosity and natural delicacy as to make the few slight differences, resulting principally from situation, no reasonable hindrance to a perfect friendship.†   (source)
  • They rattled through the quiet streets, made their call at the captain's lodgings, cleared the town, and emerged upon the open road, without hindrance or molestation.†   (source)
  • "Oh, well, I can do that, then," said Tom, not with any epigrammatic intention, but with serious satisfaction at the idea that, as far as Latin was concerned, there was no hindrance to his resembling Sir John Crake.†   (source)
  • 'Doen't fear me being any hindrance to you, I have no more to say, ma'am,' he remarked, as he moved towards the door.†   (source)
  • Perhaps he will be young, strong, and enduring, like yourself, and will aid you in your escape, while I have been but a hindrance.†   (source)
  • We both did what we had to do without any hindrance, and when we met again at one o'clock reported it done.†   (source)
  • Everything happened without hindrance, he climbed over the hurdle almost in the same spot as the day before, and stole into the summer-house unseen.†   (source)
  • I believe what you say, Seth, that you would try to be a help and not a hindrance to my work; but I see that our marriage is not God's will—He draws my heart another way.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER V. HINDRANCES.†   (source)
  • I wish to be a better man than I have been, than I am; as Job's leviathan broke the spear, the dart, and the habergeon, hindrances which others count as iron and brass, I will esteem but straw and rotten wood."†   (source)
  • The silence which he preserved allowed the prologue to proceed without hindrance, and no perceptible disorder would have ensued, if ill-luck had not willed that the scholar Joannes should catch sight, from the heights of his pillar, of the mendicant and his grimaces.†   (source)
  • Petya and Natasha on the contrary, far from helping their parents, were generally a nuisance and a hindrance to everyone.†   (source)
  • Each new form repeats not only the main character of the type, but part for part all the details, all the aims, furtherances, hindrances, energies, and whole system of every other.†   (source)
  • The miles necessary to be traversed, and other hindrances incidental to the lateness of the hour and the darkness of the night, delayed the arrival of Mr. Aldritch, the surgeon; and more than three hours passed between the time at which the shot was fired and that of his entering the house.†   (source)
  • Many times when I was upon the Road I have been ready to stamp with my feet at the hindrance of an ox-cart in the way, or a mere cloud of dust.†   (source)
  • To save all forfeit or hindrance in connection with the race, you would put me perfectly at rest by going to the office of the Circus, and seeing that he has complied with every preliminary rule; and if you can get a copy of the rules, the service may be of great avail to me.†   (source)
  • Prosperous men take a little vengeance now and then, as they take a diversion, when it comes easily in their way, and is no hindrance to business; and such small unimpassioned revenges have an enormous effect in life, running through all degrees of pleasant infliction, blocking the fit men out of places, and blackening characters in unpremeditated talk.†   (source)
  • This unfortunate economic situation does not mean the hindrance of all advance in the black South, or the absence of a class of black landlords and mechanics who, in spite of disadvantages, are accumulating property and making good citizens.†   (source)
  • All this work was performed without any hindrance, in less than an hour, and without this handful of bold men seeing a single bear-skin cap or a single bayonet make their appearance.†   (source)
  • Independently of the natural difficulties of the task, the political organization of the country would act as a hindrance to the success of their efforts.†   (source)
  • But that was impossible; there was such a thorny hedge of hindrances between them, and an imprudence would be fatal.†   (source)
  • No, no, pretty one; we think you anything but a hindrance or anything that is unbecoming, and would willingly run twice this risk to do you and the honest Sergeant a service.†   (source)
  • As no man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it, so no man has a thorough acquaintance with the hindrances or talents of men, until he has suffered from the one, and seen the triumph of the other over his own want of the same.†   (source)
  • Thus it is that in the country districts of the South, by written or unwritten law, peonage, hindrances to the migration of labor, and a system of white patronage exists over large areas.†   (source)
  • Everything seemed hindrance to her till she could find an opportunity of opening her heart to her husband.†   (source)
  • The ceiling curved up towards the centre, where there was an opening through which the sunlight poured without hindrance, and the sky, ever so blue, seemed in hand-reach; the impluvium under the opening was guarded by bronzed rails; the gilded pillars supporting the roof at the edges of the opening shone like flame where the sun struck them, and their reflections beneath seemed to stretch to infinite depth.†   (source)
  • This being the field marshal's frame of mind he was naturally regarded as merely a hindrance and obstacle to the impending war.†   (source)
  • There was only one other bed in the room, and in it lay a tradesman of the town, swollen with dropsy, who was obviously almost dying; he could be no hindrance to their conversation.†   (source)
  • It is proposed to examine in the following chapter what is the form of government established in America on the principle of the sovereignty of the people; what are its resources, its hindrances, its advantages, and its dangers.†   (source)
  • As he explained to his limping disciple, a man bred among mountains can prophesy the course of a mountain-road, and though low-lying clouds might be a hindrance to a short-cutting stranger, they made no earthly difference to a thoughtful man.†   (source)
  • In the miracle of which Tirzah and his mother were the witnesses even more nearly than himself, he saw and set apart and dwelt upon a power ample enough to raise and support a Jewish crown over the wrecks of the Italian, and more than ample to remodel society, and convert mankind into one purified happy family; and when that work was done, could any one say the peace which might then be ordered without hindrance was not a mission worthy a son of God?†   (source)
  • Just as centuries ago it was no easy thing for the serf to escape into the freedom of town-life, even so to-day there are hindrances laid in the way of county laborers.†   (source)
  • I recommend you at present, as your clergyman, and one who hopes for your reinstatement in respect, to quit the room, and avoid further hindrance to business.†   (source)
  • Natasha apparently tried not to be a burden or a hindrance to anyone, but wanted nothing for herself.†   (source)
  • A system of inland custom-houses would then be established; the valleys would be divided by imaginary boundary lines; the courses of the rivers would be confined by territorial distinctions; and a multitude of hindrances would prevent the Americans from exploring the whole of that vast continent which Providence has allotted to them for a dominion.†   (source)
  • (4) Similar measures will be taken that peasants with their carts and horses may meet with no hindrance on their return journey.†   (source)
  • Mr. Casaubon, as might be expected, spent a great deal of his time at the Grange in these weeks, and the hindrance which courtship occasioned to the progress of his great work—the Key to all Mythologies—naturally made him look forward the more eagerly to the happy termination of courtship.†   (source)
  • Mr. Bulstrode met all the expenses, and had ceased to be sorry that he was purchasing the right to carry out his notions of improvement without hindrance from prejudiced coadjutors; but he had had to spend large sums, and the building had lingered.†   (source)
  • She attributed immense importance to all her husband's intellectual and abstract interests though she did not understand them, and she always dreaded being a hindrance to him in such matters.†   (source)
  • But he had deliberately incurred the hindrance, having made up his mind that it was now time for him to adorn his life with the graces of female companionship, to irradiate the gloom which fatigue was apt to hang over the intervals of studious labor with the play of female fancy, and to secure in this, his culminating age, the solace of female tendance for his declining years.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • The very qualities that had been a hindrance, if not actually harmful, to him in the world he had lived in—his strength, his disdain for the comforts of life, his absent-mindedness and simplicity—here among these people gave him almost the status of a hero.†   (source)
  • The cuttlefish is no hindrance.†   (source)
  • "You refer to the possible hindrances from want of health?" he said, wishing to help forward Mr. Casaubon's purpose, which seemed to be clogged by some hesitation.†   (source)
  • Petya decided to go straight to where the Emperor was and to explain frankly to some gentleman-in-waiting (he imagined the Emperor to be always surrounded by gentlemen-in-waiting) that he, Count Rostov, in spite of his youth wished to serve his country; that youth could be no hindrance to loyalty, and that he was ready to….†   (source)
  • The wife is the hindrance.†   (source)
  • This habitual state of feeling about Will Ladislaw had been strong in all her waking hours since she had proposed to pay a visit to Mrs. Lydgate, making a sort of background against which she saw Rosamond's figure presented to her without hindrances to her interest and compassion.†   (source)
  • He regarded all these occupations as hindrances to life, and considered that they were all contemptible because their aim was the welfare of himself and his family.†   (source)
  • Suppose we turn from outside estimates of a man, to wonder, with keener interest, what is the report of his own consciousness about his doings or capacity: with what hindrances he is carrying on his daily labors; what fading of hopes, or what deeper fixity of self-delusion the years are marking off within him; and with what spirit he wrestles against universal pressure, which will one day be too heavy for him, and bring his heart to its final pause.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Elinor was obliged, though unwillingly, to believe that the sentiments which Mrs. Jennings had assigned him for her own satisfaction, were now actually excited by her sister; and that however a general resemblance of disposition between the parties might forward the affection of Mr. Willoughby, an equally striking opposition of character was no hindrance to the regard of Colonel Brandon.†   (source)
  • He did this quietly at first and without any fear of hindrance, for he held the minds of the barons of Castile occupied in thinking of the war and not anticipating any innovations; thus they did not perceive that by these means he was acquiring power and authority over them.†   (source)
  • But the hindrance thrown in the way of a very speedy intimacy, by the frequent want of one or more of these requisites, prevented their doing more than going through the first rudiments of an acquaintance, by informing themselves how well the other liked Bath, how much she admired its buildings and surrounding country, whether she drew, or played, or sang, and whether she was fond of riding on horseback.†   (source)
  • But though so much of the matter was known to them already, that Mrs. Jennings might have had enough to do in spreading that knowledge farther, without seeking after more, she had resolved from the first to pay a visit of comfort and inquiry to her cousins as soon as she could; and nothing but the hindrance of more visitors than usual, had prevented her going to them within that time.†   (source)
  • "The beasts ha' such a thick coat, the cold's no hindrance to them," he explained, sharpening a spearpoint with enthusiasm against a foot-driven grindstone, "and they feel safe wi' the mist so heavy all round them—canna see the men coming toward them, ye ken."†   (source)
  • Fierce Abas first he slew; Abas, the stay Of Trojan hopes, and hindrance of the day.†   (source)
  • Magnanimity Contempt of little helps, and hindrances, MAGNANIMITY.†   (source)
  • There is a bridge cast over the river, not of timber, but of fair stone, consisting of many stately arches; it lies at that part of the town which is farthest from the sea, so that the ships, without any hindrance, lie all along the side of the town.†   (source)
  • Nay verily, it is only because of the hindrance my presence offers to the execution of her base designs.†   (source)
  • A gentle Lady[3] is in heaven who hath pity for this hindrance whereto I send thee, so that stern judgment there above she breaketh.†   (source)
  • A husband will I have, I *will no let,* *will bear no hindrance* Which shall be both my debtor and my thrall,* *slave And have his tribulation withal Upon his flesh, while that I am his wife.†   (source)
  • For that which could not hinder a man from promising, ought not to be admitted as a hindrance of performing.†   (source)
  • "There's no road so smooth but it has some hole or hindrance in it," said Sancho; "in other houses they cook beans, but in mine it's by the potful; madness will have more followers and hangers-on than sound sense; but if there be any truth in the common saying, that to have companions in trouble gives some relief, I may take consolation from you, inasmuch as you serve a master as crazy as my own."†   (source)
  • "Thinkest thou, Malacoda, to see me come here," said my Master, "safe hitherto from all your hindrances, except by Will Divine and fate propitious?†   (source)
  • "Let him, in Heaven's name," returned Clara; and not to hear him she stopped both ears with her hands, at which Dorothea was again surprised; but turning her attention to the song she found that it ran in this fashion: Sweet Hope, my stay, That onward to the goal of thy intent Dost make thy way, Heedless of hindrance or impediment, Have thou no fear If at each step thou findest death is near.†   (source)
  • Pusillanimity Desire of things that conduce but a little to our ends; And fear of things that are but of little hindrance, PUSILLANIMITY.†   (source)
  • For he that renounceth, or passeth away his Right, giveth not to any other man a Right which he had not before; because there is nothing to which every man had not Right by Nature: but onely standeth out of his way, that he may enjoy his own originall Right, without hindrance from him; not without hindrance from another.†   (source)
  • Remember, my friend, that woman is an imperfect animal, and that impediments are not to be placed in her way to make her trip and fall, but that they should be removed, and her path left clear of all obstacles, so that without hindrance she may run her course freely to attain the desired perfection, which consists in being virtuous.†   (source)
  • And when a man hath in either manner abandoned, or granted away his Right; then is he said to be OBLIGED, or BOUND, not to hinder those, to whom such Right is granted, or abandoned, from the benefit of it: and that he Ought, and it his DUTY, not to make voyd that voluntary act of his own: and that such hindrance is INJUSTICE, and INJURY, as being Sine Jure; the Right being before renounced, or transferred.†   (source)
  • …Peace and Defence of them all; and whosoever has right to the End, has right to the Means; it belongeth of Right, to whatsoever Man, or Assembly that hath the Soveraignty, to be Judge both of the meanes of Peace and Defence; and also of the hindrances, and disturbances of the same; and to do whatsoever he shall think necessary to be done, both beforehand, for the preserving of Peace and Security, by prevention of discord at home and Hostility from abroad; and, when Peace and Security…†   (source)
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