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  • But when they reached the edge of the wood, their progress was impeded.†   (source)
  • Another of the planners of this crime was to stand outside the drugstore and impede anyone chasing the robbers.†   (source)
  • He didn't want to impede circulation through the carotid artery.†   (source)
  • The voice was faint and distorted, as though impeded by something like a bubble, some mucus in her throat.†   (source)
  • Today we honor tradition, and no Red devil will impede that.†   (source)
  • In hindsight, Andy was acting irrationally and had plainly slipped well beyond routine hypoxia, but I was so mentally impeded myself that it simply didn't register.†   (source)
  • Whether NCAA investigators impeded, or enabled, this state of affairs was an open question.†   (source)
  • There were too many disappearances, in all parts of the city, to investigate properly, and too many forces impeding the detection of patterns.†   (source)
  • Who but a fringe character would try to impede the unimpeachable improvement of the world?†   (source)
  • All those partitions would impede the free flow of unhinged panic.†   (source)
  • Widespread introduction of the process has thus far been impeded, however, by a reluctance among consumers to eat things that have been exposed to radiation.†   (source)
  • The flashlight beam, however, was impeded by a heavy wooden door.†   (source)
  • She groped for it, realizing she was being impeded by a muzziness of the changed drug permeating her senses.†   (source)
  • The mud was impeding him too, because one time, when he kicked out, he slipped and fell out of view into the blackness.†   (source)
  • Hurrying back toward the main street where I could catch an orange taxi, tears streaming down my face, my arms flailing at the passersby who impeded my flight, I lurched past Ellen's apartment just as Hormoz happened to glance out of an open second-story window.†   (source)
  • I was more convinced than ever that the government was behind much of the violence and the violence was impeding the negotiations.†   (source)
  • They burned plantations and commissaries, tore up tracks to impede the passage of the trains that began to open their path with machinegun fire, and they cut telegraph and telephone wires.†   (source)
  • The result was, of course, that an equal number of drunken men were soon impeding the flight of the fugitives.†   (source)
  • Below the surface is a latticework of wood and metal with holes large enough that they don't impede the flow overly much.†   (source)
  • He was half tempted to go pick it for Trina, but he knew she'd scold him within an inch of his life if he dared impede the progress of the forest.†   (source)
  • But these doctrines existed more on paper than on plantations, just as Pakistani laws exist in the statute books but don't impede brothel owners who choose to eliminate troublesome girls.†   (source)
  • Because of the size and configuration of their bodies, they suffer impeded breathing and circulation when recumbent, and as prey animals who have trouble getting to their feet quickly, they are instinctively disinclined to stay down.†   (source)
  • At first his long democratic experience impeded his ability to set traps for the new government, but he soon gave up the idea of obstructing it by legal means and came to accept the fact that the only way to unseat it was by using Illegal ones.†   (source)
  • All the chairs looked as though they'd impede my freedom of movement if I was attacked and had to defend myself.†   (source)
  • In another situation he might have appeared comic, his large head too massive for the asinine Lone Ranger eye-covering, which would certainly not impede instant identification.†   (source)
  • Jefferson insisted that Freneau and his paper were saving the country from monarchy and persuaded Washington that it would be a grave misstep to impede on freedom of the press.†   (source)
  • Attolia's servants never provided one except at Her Majesty's explicit command, but Nahuseresh didn't choose to impede the process of the queen's revenge by sending for one.†   (source)
  • And they were doing so, he reasoned, in order to impede the army.†   (source)
  • If people don't understand English, they will be motivated to learn, he believes, because some Hispanics are "impeded" from learning by U.S. government policies, such as the translation of documents, bilingual education, and bilingual election ballots.†   (source)
  • The tide was beginning to roll in again, and those great black slabs of granite had the formidable task of inhibiting the erosion along the beach, of impeding the flow and will of the Atlantic Ocean with its immeasurable tonnage and its mindless habit, centuries old, of taking or giving or regaining whatever it damn well pleased.†   (source)
  • I and these gentlemen with me have formed a committee, the Amistad Committee, to ensure that the devilish machinations from the morally bankrupt presidential administration in Washington will not impede a just outcome for these poor African souls.†   (source)
  • As she walked his steps, Janice indicated places of potential complication, points where foot traffic might impede the track of the small parade, checking to make sure of enough space for the newspeople covering the event.†   (source)
  • The circulation has been impeded, which is the quality you feel that suggests death.†   (source)
  • The pothelm was visorless; he hated having his vision impeded.†   (source)
  • Killing those husbands and fathers and sons will impede the nation's healing.†   (source)
  • If you're holding back, or if you remember anything not revealed in this interview, I'll charge you with withholding evidence and impeding an investigation."†   (source)
  • But thousands of tonnes of loose rock impeded repair, so they had done what they could—gone back to a spot where they could get through to surface, erected a temporary relay in direction they thought Luna City lay, sent up a dozen rockets at ten-minute intervals, and hoped that somebody would see, understand, aim a relay at it— Any communication?†   (source)
  • Wasn't it to impede tyranny, aggression, repression?†   (source)
  • "What a surprise!" said Julian, in his slow, almost impeded way of speaking and a great hawk that was black and green circled and settled upon his left shoulder.†   (source)
  • Here the air felt closer--the close-set houses and the trees impeded the breeze--and sounds took on a new density: her footsteps came back to her from all directions at once, from the walls of old houses, the windows and old metal signs of walk-down grocery stores and beauty shops, from parked cars, from thick old hedges clipped at the level of one's waist.†   (source)
  • The footsteps were coming nearer: I raised myself on my elbow the better to listen, trying to still the thudding in my eardrums which impeded my hearing.†   (source)
  • Cassie Morrison, her blackstockinged legs seeming to wade among the impeding legs of the other women, crossed the parlor to where Virgie sat in the chair at the closed sewing machine.†   (source)
  • Hand between both upper thighs a possibility, but this position would impede walking on the part of the subject, and no limping or stumbling is detectable.   (source)
    impede = create difficulty so as to slow or prevent
  • ...the folding doors slide back nearly to the walls on either hand, so that the view of the whole extent is scarcely impeded.   (source)
    impeded = obstructed (made more difficult)
  • They were stealing money and goods from the gas station, and they were operating in numbers that seemed designed to intimidate anyone, like Zeitoun, who might see them or try to impede them.†   (source)
  • She was impeded by her own Shield Charm; by the time she had removed it he had already stormed into the night.†   (source)
  • The work advanced slowly, impeded by the worsening relationship between the fair's two ruling bodies, the National Commission and the Exposition Company, and by the architects' failure to get their drawings to Chicago on time.†   (source)
  • The Republican majority in Congress that rose to power that year not only impeded the adoption of ergonomics standards but also raised questions about the future of OSHA.†   (source)
  • Everything that impeded him had to be outweighed, even if only by a fraction, by all that drove him on.†   (source)
  • Langdon's sight line was impeded—by the stone pyramid, which had toppled out of his bag and was lying sideways on the floor, its base inches from his face.†   (source)
  • Maybe this was part of Completion—a test like this to measure her loyalty, to thwart anyone or anything that would impede Completion?†   (source)
  • He thought he could make out an enormous arm waving from the midst of the spider swarm, but as he made to chase after them, his way was impeded by a monumental foot, which swung down out of the darkness and made the ground on which he stood shudder.†   (source)
  • The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act guarantees an inmate the opportunity to worship whatever he likes as long as it doesn't impede the safety of others in the prison or affect the running of the prison.†   (source)
  • Had the bullet entered millimeters away on either side the vital functions would have ceased; they had not been impeded, and Washburn had made a decision.†   (source)
  • The hunt began, compounded and impeded by the fact that the word had been spread throughout these adjacent wings of the Metropole's tenth floor.†   (source)
  • Seivarden closed her eyes, ducked her head, face into my neck, held me tight enough that if I hadn't been armored my breathing would have been impeded.†   (source)
  • His name was James Manning, and he had infiltrated the barn area with plans to break into Seabiscuit's stall and shove a sponge up his nostril, impeding his breathing.†   (source)
  • Reason and liberty are over-spreading the world, nor will progress be impeded until the towering crown shall fall, and the spectre of royalty be broken in pieces, in every part of the globe.†   (source)
  • Isham insisted to the judge that his clients were having second thoughts and did not want to impede their government's desires to resolve the issue of the blacks.†   (source)
  • If the state agrees to his execution by hanging, and provides for the subsequent donation of his organs, the safety of other inmates isn't impeded; the running of the prison isn't affected—but it would offer a very significant personal outcome for Shay Bourne: to save a little girl's life, and in the process, to save his own soul.†   (source)
  • I had to show the staff that I possessed native intelligence but not so great a one or of a certain kind that it impeded my sense of duty.†   (source)
  • Because I won't be impeded … and if I do get out of here, I'd like a certain Benjamin's mother to find him alive and well and commuting to Moscow.†   (source)
  • The second man, slender, tall, dark-featured, with only a fringe of hair on his bald head, was hard upon the first, pulling him to his feet, sight or instinct making the second killer wield his automatic weapon in slashing arcs, cutting the impeding lines across the path to the ledge that led down to the beach.†   (source)
  • Detached from mankind--thrust back with sharp insults or, simply, blank stares by those whose activities he indifferently impedes--fawned over by fools who, in an analogous situation, cannot walk past a sleeping dog without calling to it and holding out their fingers--smiled at by children who tomorrow will frown or fawn, like their parents--the policeman little by little slides away from whatever comfortable humanity he may once have shared with his neighbors.†   (source)
  • For alas! my mind is a little impeded, it soon tires; I fall damp, perhaps disgusting, at the goal.†   (source)
  • The bundle rolled forward unchecked, as if the hounds did not impede it at all.†   (source)
  • There was protest, but not loud enough to impede him.†   (source)
  • THE MONTH OF MARY The Bishop's work was sometimes assisted, often impeded, by external events.†   (source)
  • He is therefore impeded and inhibited and self-conscious as Shakespeare might have been if he too had known Miss Clough and Miss Davies.†   (source)
  • It was permissible to allow the destruction of a tribal system that impeded the growth of the country.†   (source)
  • In the dull street below, their shouts muffled by the window, a swarm of boys of various heights and ages now dragged, now tumbled a bulky packing-box along the gutter, and in their eagerness to lend a hand, impeded one another, shoved one another out of the way, shook fists and forgot about it promptly and grappled with the box again.†   (source)
  • She trotted clumsily: an animal impeded by that which distinguished her from animals: her heels, her clothes, her smallness.†   (source)
  • And as bythis time he had entrenched himself away from all truth, in a world which it is almost impossible to describe, for I know no one now who could inhabit such a world—the engagement was incredibly involved, frustrated, and impeded.†   (source)
  • …at him would have seen on his face an expression a good deal like the one—that proffering with humility yet with pride too, of complete surrender—which he had used to see on Henry's face, and maybe he telling himself I not only don't know what it is I want but apparently I am a good deal younger than I thought also: and saw face to face the man who might be his father, and nothing happened—no shock, no hot communicated flesh that speech would have been too slow even to impede—nothing.†   (source)
  • …inadequacy of human relationships, that the most perfect was flawed, and could not bear the examination which, loving her husband, with her instinct for truth, she turned upon it; when it was painful to feel herself convicted of unworthiness, and impeded in her proper function by these lies, these exaggerations,—it was at this moment when she was fretted thus ignobly in the wake of her exaltation, that Mr. Carmichael shuffled past, in his yellow slippers, and some demon in her made it…†   (source)
  • "I'm sorry if I am impeding the traffic, officer," said Sebastian with care, "but the lady insisted on my stopping for her to get out.†   (source)
  • The earth began to slide under Ranger, and that impeded Helen's progress.†   (source)
  • In response came syllables not so much impeded in the utterance as might have been anticipated.†   (source)
  • The Brahman, polite and enigmatic, did not impede his eloquence, and even applauded it.†   (source)
  • K. looked at her as if to ask whose way they were impeding.†   (source)
  • I place my hand on the hand of the speaker so lightly as not to impede its movements.†   (source)
  • Rocks impeded the progress of the car, and these had to be rolled out of the way.†   (source)
  • It was as if the willows were clutching hands, his enemies, fiendishly impeding his progress.†   (source)
  • BUT JOACHIM COULD PROVIDE only a garbled, impeded reply.†   (source)
  • Moreover, the cactus plants assumed an alarming ability to impede progress.†   (source)
  • Why some inexplicable smart All movement of my life impedes?†   (source)
  • Mere cattle stop the trains, and go by in a procession, just as if they were not impeding travel!†   (source)
  • Hitherto I had merely thought myself impeded by the childish simplicity of the little people, and by some unknown forces which I had only to understand to overcome; but there was an altogether new element in the sickening quality of the Morlocks—a something inhuman and malign.†   (source)
  • That gap was altogether fortunate for me, for the narrow chimney, slanting obliquely upward, must have impeded the nearer pursuers.†   (source)
  • She had been born in Missouri, where her father had been well-to-do and prominent, until, like many another man of his day, he had impeded the passage of a bullet.†   (source)
  • As it was impossible to crawl in a straight line, owing to rocks impeding his progress, he deviated from the course set by Pilchuck.†   (source)
  • I found the water was sufficiently shallow for me to wade securely, although the red weed impeded my feet a little; but the flood evidently got deeper towards the river, and I turned back to Mortlake.†   (source)
  • Everybody in the road, except my three pursuers, was pouring along after the Salvation Army, and this blow not only impeded me but them.†   (source)
  • Cecil glanced at them as he proceeded to his toilet and they impeded Mary with her brood of hot-water cans.†   (source)
  • Gerty broke off, abashed at the sound of her own eloquence, and impeded by the difficulty of giving precise expression to her vague yearning for her friend's retrieval.†   (source)
  • Presently her feet touched the earth; she was not jostled and pressed; then she felt free to walk; and with Jim urging her they climbed a rock-strewn slope till a cabin impeded further progress.†   (source)
  • So, panting, tumbling against rocks, torn by brambles, impeded by ferns and reeds, I helped to pursue the Leopard-man who had broken the Law, and the Hyena-swine ran, laughing savagely, by my side.†   (source)
  • He had held the customs of his forefathers and their old institutions in far higher regard than any expansion of the harbor at breakneck speed or the godless tomfooleries of a great city, had impeded and tempered wherever he could.†   (source)
  • But I see there is about to be an Esmiss Esmoor legend at Chandrapore, my dear Hamiduilah, and I will not impede its growth.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Honeychurch, who looked cross, was tying them up, while Miss Bartlett, unsuitably dressed, impeded her with offers of assistance.†   (source)
  • A few years ago, the Rajah would have taken the hint, for the Political Agent then had been a formidable figure, descending with all the thunders of Empire when it was most inconvenient, turning the polity inside out, requiring motor-cars and tiger-hunts, trees cut down that impeded the view from the Guest House, cows milked in his presence, and generally arrogating the control of internal affairs.†   (source)
  • He felt it as a pressure in his sinuses; his throat and uvula were sore and scratchy; air didn't pass normally through the channel prescribed by nature, but was impeded, and its steady cold draft unleashed fits of coughing; overnight his voice had taken on the hollow timbre of a whiskey bass; and as he told it, he had not slept a wink—he had kept starting up from his pillow because of the stifling dryness in his throat.†   (source)
  • Tom knew that the affair his uncle had to speak of was not urgent; Mr. Deane was too shrewd and practical a man to allow either his reminiscences or his snuff to impede the progress of trade.†   (source)
  • Napoleon, too, carried away his own personal tresor, but on seeing the baggage trains that impeded the army, he was (Thiers says) horror-struck.†   (source)
  • And it may have been a ringing in my ear, from this organ filling with impeded blood, but it seemed to me that Conseil's shout had received an answer back.†   (source)
  • As to there being any quantity of snow fallen or likely to fall to impede their return, that was a mere joke; he was afraid they would find no difficulty.†   (source)
  • It is moreover to be remarked, that amongst the ancients books were always scarce and dear; and that very great difficulties impeded their publication and circulation.†   (source)
  • Rosamond in her agitated absorption had not noticed the silently advancing figure; but when Dorothea, after the first immeasurable instant of this vision, moved confusedly backward and found herself impeded by some piece of furniture, Rosamond was suddenly aware of her presence, and with a spasmodic movement snatched away her hands and rose, looking at Dorothea who was necessarily arrested.†   (source)
  • I was aware of the great powers of vegetation that characterise these plants, which grow at a depth of twelve thousand feet, reproduce themselves under a pressure of four hundred atmospheres, and sometimes form barriers strong enough to impede the course of a ship.†   (source)
  • There was so much to be done, and so little time to do it in; so many kind words to be spoken, and such bitter pain in the hearts in which they rose to impede their utterance; that the little preparations for his journey were made mournfully indeed.†   (source)
  • …ladders, some for sledge-hammers; some ran with torches to and fro as if to seek them, and still came back and roared again; some spent their breath in impotent curses and execrations; some pressed forward with the ecstasy of madmen, and thus impeded the progress of those below; some among the boldest attempted to climb up by the water-spout and crevices in the wall; and all waved to and fro, in the darkness beneath, like a field of corn moved by an angry wind: and joined from time to…†   (source)
  • Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility.†   (source)
  • Mabel had followed, but she rather impeded than aided his exertions, and but a single bar was turned when a heavy discharge of rifles was heard.†   (source)
  • Had there been a family to provide for, Mrs. Norris might never have saved her money; but having no care of that kind, there was nothing to impede her frugality, or lessen the comfort of making a yearly addition to an income which they had never lived up to.†   (source)
  • But sometimes, in the dark of intense brightness, grim faces, that bore the aspect and expression of individual sins, or evil passions, seemed to thrust themselves through the veil of light, glaring upon us, and stretching forth a great, dusky hand, as if to impede our progress.†   (source)
  • And it does not become us, who assist in making the laws, to impede or interfere with those who carry them into execution.†   (source)
  • The Mohican maintained his firm and haughty attitude; and his eyes, so far from deigning to meet her inquisitive look, dwelt steadily on the distance, as though it penetrated the obstacles which impeded the view and looked into futurity.†   (source)
  • Owing to her baby, who somewhat impeded Thomasin's view forward and distracted her mind, she did at last lose the track.†   (source)
  • Wrapped up in a shawl, I still carried the unknown little child: I might not lay it down anywhere, however tired were my arms — however much its weight impeded my progress, I must retain it.†   (source)
  • A wind—row had been opened through the trees from thence to the lake, and my view was but little impeded.†   (source)
  • The stranger drew nigh deliberately; keeping his eyes steadily fastened on the movements of the other party, while he purposely created little difficulties to impede an approach which might prove too hasty.†   (source)
  • I soon found we must, as before, turn down to the sea beach, for not only did the rank grass impede our progress, but it also tempted the animals to break away from us, and, but for our watchful dogs, we might have lost several of them.†   (source)
  • He lived long and happily with Rowena, for they were attached to each other by the bonds of early affection, and they loved each other the more, from the recollection of the obstacles which had impeded their union.†   (source)
  • While the bolt of his iron collar was being riveted behind his head with heavy blows from the hammer, he wept, his tears stifled him, they impeded his speech; he only managed to say from time to time, "I was a tree-pruner at Faverolles."†   (source)
  • The mistress of the house, meanwhile, as is usual with persons of her stiff and unmalleable cast, stood mostly aside; willing to lend her aid, yet conscious that her natural inaptitude would be likely to impede the business in hand.†   (source)
  • "Then, at the back," said Wemmick, "out of sight, so as not to impede the idea of fortifications,—for it's a principle with me, if you have an idea, carry it out and keep it up,—I don't know whether that's your opinion—"†   (source)
  • …descend to considerable depth, that its end may avoid all contact with the hull; and as moreover, if kept constantly towing there, it would be liable to many mishaps, besides interfering not a little with some of the rigging, and more or less impeding the vessel's way in the water; because of all this, the lower parts of a ship's lightning-rods are not always overboard; but are generally made in long slender links, so as to be the more readily hauled up into the chains outside, or…†   (source)
  • In America the legislature of each State is supreme; nothing can impede its authority; neither privileges, nor local immunities, nor personal influence, nor even the empire of reason, since it represents that majority which claims to be the sole organ of reason.†   (source)
  • When the scow came up over her grapnel, Hutter tripped the latter in a way not to impede the motion; and being now beyond the influence of the current, the vessel continued to drift ahead, until fairly in the open lake, though still near enough to the land to render exposure to a rifle-bullet dangerous.†   (source)
  • …frequently the same capacity which carries a man to popularity in one department will obtain for him success in another, and that must be more particularly the case in literary composition, than either in acting or painting, because the adventurer in that department is not impeded in his exertions by any peculiarity of features, or conformation of person, proper for particular parts, or, by any peculiar mechanical habits of using the pencil, limited to a particular class of subjects.†   (source)
  • Again Pierre did not wish to look and again turned away; but again the sound as of a frightful explosion struck his ear, and at the same moment he saw smoke, blood, and the pale, scared faces of the Frenchmen who were again doing something by the post, their trembling hands impeding one another.†   (source)
  • The mountain-chain, with all its gorges deep, Would then no more impede my godlike motion; And now before mine eyes expands the ocean With all its bays, in shining sleep!†   (source)
  • Venn was not mistaken in supposing that any person who had sunk for the last time would be washed down to this point, for when they had examined to about half-way across something impeded their thrust.†   (source)
  • The fabric of the jacket was reinforced with copper mail that shielded the chest, protected it from the water's pressure, and allowed the lungs to function freely; the sleeves ended in supple gloves that didn't impede hand movements.†   (source)
  • The horror of being blocked up at Randalls, while her children were at Hartfield, was full in her imagination; and fancying the road to be now just passable for adventurous people, but in a state that admitted no delay, she was eager to have it settled, that her father and Emma should remain at Randalls, while she and her husband set forward instantly through all the possible accumulations of drifted snow that might impede them.†   (source)
  • Preparing himself duly, and giving a right direction to its bows, he ran off into the water bearing the canoe before him, threw all his strength and skill into a last effort, and cast himself forward so as to fall into the bottom of the light craft without materially impeding its way.†   (source)
  • The majority therefore in that country exercises a prodigious actual authority, and a moral influence which is scarcely less preponderant; no obstacles exist which can impede or so much as retard its progress, or which can induce it to heed the complaints of those whom it crushes upon its path.†   (source)
  • Circulation was impeded, and everywhere disputes, discussions, and financial transactions were going on.†   (source)
  • Jean Valjean took Javert by the martingale, as one would take a beast of burden by the breast-band, and, dragging the latter after him, emerged from the wine-shop slowly, because Javert, with his impeded limbs, could take only very short steps.†   (source)
  • 'After resting for some time and refreshing myself with food,' pursued Fritz, 'I resumed my survey of the coast, my progress somewhat impeded by the bag of shellfish, which I drew after me; but I proceeded without accident past the mouth of the stream to the further side of the bay, which was there enclosed by a point corresponding to that through which I had entered; and between these headlands I found a line of reefs and sand-banks, with but a single channel leading out to the open…†   (source)
  • The general interest of a party frequently demands that members belonging to it should not speak on great questions which they understand imperfectly; that they should speak but little on those minor questions which impede the great ones; lastly, and for the most part, that they should not speak at all.†   (source)
  • She had a way of not assenting at once to the observations current in good society, and of saying that she didn't know whether those observations were true or not, which gave her an air of gaucherie, and impeded the even flow of conversation; but it is a fact capable of an amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed toward a new acquaintance of their own sex because she has points of inferiority.†   (source)
  • Oliver and Elizabeth approached the graves with a light tread, unheard by the old hunter, whose sunburnt face was working, and whose eyes twinkled as if something impeded their vision.†   (source)
  • Indeed it impeded rather than aided the action of limbs, which disdained to seek assistance, or admit of restraint from so womanish inventions as stirrups.†   (source)
  • Long bores were driven into the side walls; but after fifteen meters, the instruments were still impeded by the thickness of those walls.†   (source)
  • At another time the Prince would have treated this deed of violence as a good jest; but now, that it interfered with and impeded his own plans, he exclaimed against the perpetrators, and spoke of the broken laws, and the infringement of public order and of private property, in a tone which might have become King Alfred.†   (source)
  • Hamilton, after having demonstrated the utility of a power which might prevent, or which might at least impede, the promulgation of bad laws, adds: "It might perhaps be said that the power of preventing bad laws includes that of preventing good ones, and may be used to the one purpose as well as to the other.†   (source)
  • At the corner, where the jail stood, the progress of the ladies was impeded, for a moment, by the oxen, who were turned up to the side of the building, and given a lock of hay, which they had carried on their necks, as a reward for their patient labor, The whole of this was so natural, and so common, that Elizabeth saw nothing to induce a second glance at the team, until she heard the teamster speaking to his cattle in a low voice: "Mind yourself, Brindle; will you, sir! will you!"†   (source)
  • And yet, the struggle fails; since Light, howe'er it weaves, Still, fettered, unto bodies cleaves: It flows from bodies, bodies beautifies; By bodies is its course impeded; And so, but little time is needed, I hope, ere, as the bodies die, it dies!†   (source)
  • In a word, we must found a form of government holding universal sway, which should be diffused over the whole world without destroying the bonds of citizenship, and beside which all other governments can continue in their customary course and do everything except what impedes the great aim of our order, which is to obtain for virtue the victory over vice.†   (source)
  • This was the remora, which travels attached to the bellies of sharks; as the ancients tell it, when these little fish cling to the undersides of a ship, they can bring it to a halt, and by so impeding Mark Antony's vessel during the Battle of Actium, one of them facilitated the victory of Augustus Caesar.†   (source)
  • instead of running after the chief clerk himself, or at least not impeding Gregor as he ran after him, Gregor's father...   (source)
    impeding = interfering with
  • all that impedes thee from...   (source)
    impedes = prevents
  • Alaska would have wanted, I'm sure, for Chip's studies to continue unimpeded."†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unimpeded means not and reverses the meaning of impeded. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • It has quantifiable mass which is unimpeded by physical barriers.†   (source)
  • On the quadrangle, upperclassmen ran out to get an unimpeded view of Poteete.†   (source)
  • The Bear was sitting in a corner booth with an unimpeded view of the door.†   (source)
  • It moved along at a steady twenty miles an hour unimpeded by any other traffic on the roads.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Weasley moved aside to look at the Pygmy Puffs, and Harry, Ron, and Hermione momentarily had an unimpeded view out of the window.†   (source)
  • It scared him to have the yellow center line buried under swirling, drifting snow, and it scared him when the heavy gusts of wind came unimpeded through the notches in the hills and actually made the heavy Buick slew around.†   (source)
  • The Governor's wife has decided to give Lydia an unimpeded shot at him, without any distraction from Marianne.†   (source)
  • Jenny was fighting valiantly to plant her feet and bring Marley to a halt, but he lumbered on unimpeded, tugging her across the parking lot in pursuit of hot-poodle butt-sniffing action.†   (source)
  • Because of the danger of woodland fires we unfortunately cannot have a bonfire, but everybody is free to let the flames of their imagination flicker unimpeded.†   (source)
  • Thieves walked in unimpeded and made off with all the tenants' belongings, everything Todd had gathered there in the front rooms to keep dry.†   (source)
  • That drug, derived from the poison darts of Amazon tribes, paralyzes all the muscles, leaving you still as death, so that the ventilator can do its work unimpeded.†   (source)
  • Max marveled as the ki-rin walked across the water unimpeded, her great paws making nary a ripple as she towed the injured ogre across.†   (source)
  • Whenever they were forced to wait, some imp or other elaborately costumed attendant spied their carriage and singled them out so that they could stream past the others and make their way unimpeded.†   (source)
  • She'd never have considered that the purity of air and the unimpeded arch of sky would be so appealing to her.†   (source)
  • It had an unimpeded view of Korphe K2, the kind of view that Mortenson thought would encourage students to aim high.†   (source)
  • Sansa saw the embattled ramparts of one of the Imp's winch towers looming above, but the great chain had been lowered, and they rowed unimpeded past the spot where a thousand men had burned.†   (source)
  • The Georgia sun was blast-furnace hot, and still high enough in the sky in the late afternoon that its rays were unimpeded by the tree line.†   (source)
  • He lit a pipe bomb in a car before going into the school, to serve as a diversion so that he could enter unimpeded with his guns.†   (source)
  • The pilot was one of thousands who flew to Japan unimpeded because the Marines had conquered the sulfur island.†   (source)
  • Unimpeded by other schemes, this hint of things to come takes time to expand in the new morning light, and we attempt to watch it unobtrusively, with deep concentration.†   (source)
  • The signal processors filtered most of it out, and every few minutes Jones switched them off his channel, getting the sound unimpeded to make sure that they weren't filtering too much out.†   (source)
  • Hunched with my brother in the confining darkness, I tried to imagine the invasion from the viewpoint of a defending blockhouse occupant: He created terror with his unimpeded field of fire, but he must have been terrified himself; a trapped killer, he knew that he would die there—probably from the searing heat of a flamethrower thrust through the firing hole by a desperate young Marine who had managed to survive the machine-gun spray.†   (source)
  • As the half wore on, the Fugees charged once, twice, and then a third time, at one point racing down the field unimpeded and at a full sprint, like kids chasing an ice cream truck.†   (source)
  • They were sometimes ten and twenty layers deep, they would meander in circles, or zigzag, a hundred or more sailing about unimpeded.†   (source)
  • When your protection or the route itself goes to the left or right, you use a runner to stretch out to a center line where the rope can run unimpeded.†   (source)
  • The border gates, would be flagged open, frantic traffic unimpeded, and to complete the devastation, the genius that was Ilich Ramirez Sanchez-brought into the world of terror as Carlos the Jackal by the errors of that same Novgorod-had to be in "Paris."†   (source)
  • Therefore his poetry flows from him free and unimpeded.†   (source)
  • Cash's face is also gravely composed; he and I look at one another with long probing looks, looks that plunge unimpeded through one another's eyes and into the ultimate secret place where for an instant Cash and Darl crouch flagrant and unabashed in all the old terror and the old foreboding, alert and secret and without shame.†   (source)
  • Wind is particularly dreaded by the inhabitants of Oran, since the plateau on which the town is built presents no natural obstacle, and it can sweep our streets with unimpeded violence.†   (source)
  • Once there was—Do you mark how the wistaria, sun-impacted on this wall here, distills and penetrates this room as though (light-unimpeded) by secret and attritive progress from mote to mote of obscurity's myriad components?†   (source)
  • …now six years absent from the world—the woman who had quitted home and kin on a flood of tears and in a shadowy miasmic region something like the bitter purlieus of Styx had produced two children and then rose like the swamp-hatched butterfly, unimpeded by weight of stomach and all the heavy organs of suffering and experience, into a perennial bright vacuum of arrested sun—and the young girl dreaming, not living, in her complete detachment and imperviousness to actuality almost like…†   (source)
  • If ever a mind was incandescent, unimpeded, I thought, turning again to the bookcase, it was Shakespeare's mind.†   (source)
  • He drew unexpectedly aside, letting her reach the threshold unimpeded.†   (source)
  • Among [Pg227] the great masses of the plain people, it goes without saying, it flourishes unimpeded.†   (source)
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