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any obstruction that is burdensome- Putting more people on the project at this late date would be more a hindrance than a help.
- I have already explained to you that what is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance.Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan -- A Study In Scarlet
- Books are hindrances to persisting stupidity.Spanish Proverb
- It seemed to her that such principles could only be a hindrance in farm management.Tolstoy, Leo -- Anna Karenina
- Perhaps he will be young, strong, and enduring, like yourself, and will aid you in your escape, while I have been but a hindrance.Dumas, Alexandre -- The Count of Monte Cristo
- Bigwig realized that Woundwort also knew that in the run his body would be nearly as great a hindrance dead as alive.Richard Adams -- Watership Down
- 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.Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
- It would have been faster, but Denna's mania was growing stronger, and all her extra energy was more of a hindrance than a help.Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
- We both did what we had to do without any hindrance, and when we met again at one o'clock reported it done.Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations
- The long gap in their communications proved no hindrance at all.Larry McMurtry -- Lonesome Dove
- Fierce Abas first he slew; Abas, the stay Of Trojan hopes, and hindrance of the day.Virgil -- The Aeneid
- But how long, Oedipa thought, could it go on before collisions became a serious hindrance?Thomas Pynchon -- The Crying of Lot 49
- His father explained that they wanted something done if possible, it was such a hindrance to the kid in earning his living.W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
- 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.Anne Tayler -- A Spool of Blue Thread
- To a man on foot, stairs are a hindrance.Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash
- All the things I thought I'd learnt are just a hindrance, they're not knowledge at all.E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
- I won't be a hindrance to you.Baroness Orczy -- The Scarlet Pimpernel
- I dangers dared; I hindrance scorned I omens did defy: Whatever menaced, harassed, warned, I passed impetuous by.Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
- His temper now, as well as his judgment, was a hindrance to efficiency.Zane Grey -- The Man of the Forest
- He had outgrown hindrances faster than the H–G men could think them up.Kurt Vonnegut -- Harrison Bergeron