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  • He had a speech impediment that caused him to stutter badly.†  (source)
  • Behind him, the Impediment Jinx was wearing off.†  (source)
  • Dr. Fiona said it was likely I would have a speech impediment and a weak right arm and right leg, so I would need extensive rehabilitation facilities, which Pakistan didn't have.†  (source)
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  • WITHOUT WORK there was no impediment to Saeed and Nadia meeting during the day except for the fighting, but that impediment was a serious one.†  (source)
  • And yet, despite all the impediments and all the time that had passed, they were still deeply in love.†  (source)
  • It was endearing; so was his slight stutter, because it made us nervous for him—afraid for him, should he have his eloquence snatched from him and be struck down with a crippling speech impediment.†  (source)
  • I was thinking at that moment, wordlessly and rather deeply, how sublime friendship between Lestat and me might have been; how few impediments to it there would have been, and how much to be shared.†  (source)
  • Many could not read, which was a serious impediment now that I habitually read to Suleiman late in the afternoons.†  (source)
  • And thus, through the courage and great skill in obstetrics of Queequeg, the deliverance, or rather, delivery of Tashtego, was successfully accomplished, in the teeth, too, of the most untoward and apparently hopeless impediments; which is a lesson by no means to be forgotten.†  (source)
  • She seemed to be giving me as hostile a signal as she dared that I was an impediment to her relationship with Cassie, and she hated me for it.†  (source)
  • But halfway through the round, my arms became impediments.†  (source)
  • Hiro has to slow down a little bit here because the Refus are all sleeping on the street for the time being, an impediment to traffic.†  (source)
  • Not counting Holy week, Sundays, holy days of obligation, first Fridays, retreats, sacrifices, and cyclical impediments, her effective year was reduced to forty-two days that were spread out through a web of purple crosses.†  (source)
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