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  • Books are hindrances to persisting stupidity.†  (source)
  • However, he and Hermione worked out where most of the poles and pegs should go, and though Mr. Weasley was more of a hindrance than a help, because he got thoroughly overexcited when it came to using the mallet, they finally managed to erect a pair of shabby two-man tents.†  (source)
  • "Actually, I think it could be a hindrance," Langan replied.†  (source)
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  • To a man on foot, stairs are a hindrance.†  (source)
  • He had outgrown hindrances faster than the H—G men could think them up.†  (source)
  • Centuries later, when I was in my satyr period, I felt that I finally understood poor don Balthazar's priapic compulsions, but in those days it was mostly a hindrance to keeping young girls on the estate's staff.†  (source)
  • It is impiety even to place hindrances in their ways.†  (source)
  • The long gap in their communications proved no hindrance at all.†  (source)
  • Physical courage and the love of battle, for instance, are no great help—may even be hindrances—to a civilized man.†  (source)
  • One day I found that I was striding long distances without hindrance, my bundle light.†  (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)
  • The cam allows the jumar to slide upward without hindrance, but it pinches the rope securely when the device is weighted.†  (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)
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