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hindrance
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  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The cam allows the jumar to slide upward without hindrance, but it pinches the rope securely when the device is weighted.†  (source)
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  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • He had outgrown hindrances faster than the H—G men could think them up.†  (source)
  • I dangers dared; I hindrance scorned I omens did defy: Whatever menaced, harassed, warned, I passed impetuous by.†  (source)
  • It is impiety even to place hindrances in their ways.†  (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)
  • Physical courage and the love of battle, for instance, are no great help—may even be hindrances—to a civilized man.†  (source)
  • I won't be a hindrance to you.†  (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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