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  • As he inched it up, her giggling increased, but she thwarted his advances each time by twisting or moving an inch or two away.†   (source)
  • An uprising requires breaking the law, thwarting authority.†   (source)
  • My dad's thwarted acting career was one of his favorite subjects and — though she seemed interested enough—something told me that this wasn't the very first time she had heard about it either.†   (source)
  • Since the 1990s, Mexico and the United States have tried to thwart them.†   (source)
  • The judge was announcing his decision, saying that the governor had "thwarted" the court-approved plan of integration by means of National Guard troops.†   (source)
  • Thwarted kidnapping?†   (source)
  • He's not used to being thwarted, no matter how insignificant the object.†   (source)
  • It was the one reminder of Cass's thwarted college plans that she hadn't taken down yet.†   (source)
  • It was when it showed up, and even now this virus that can mutate in infinite ways to thwart nearly any treatment eludes our efforts to corral it.†   (source)
  • The time spent denying coverage, arguing, dismissing, thwarting—surely it was more trouble than simply granting her parents access to the right care.†   (source)
  • Thwarted yet wondering, she chopped away with the hoe.†   (source)
  • Again and again, efforts to prevent the sale of tainted ground beef have been thwarted by meat industry lobbyists and their allies in Congress.†   (source)
  • Even when they tried to change their shapes, the gods had no luck, as if the magic of the box were thwarting them.†   (source)
  • Their efforts were always thwarted.†   (source)
  • And now I feel desperate, thwarted.†   (source)
  • Again, my hope for a storybook dalliance was thwarted by the fact that the stream was only about six inches deep.†   (source)
  • If I am to develop a simulation that cannot be thwarted by the Divergent mind, I must study the strongest Divergent mind in order to shore up all weaknesses in the technology.†   (source)
  • What can it be that thwarts us?†   (source)
  • But in my case of sacrificial effort I was thwarted.†   (source)
  • Easy enough as it was to adopt white American values, I still had a Japanese father to frighten my boyfriends and a Japanese face to thwart my social goals.†   (source)
  • He was baffled, thwarted, muzzled.†   (source)
  • Eragon said you were among the strongest spellcasters of your race, but do you really have the wherewithal to thwart that accursed pair?†   (source)
  • My plans for apple pie were thwarted by the lack of a pie pan, so I made apple crisp.†   (source)
  • The ANC, the SAIC, and the APO again met to discuss these new measures, and Dr. Dadoo, among others, said that it would be foolish to allow past differences to thwart a united front against the government.†   (source)
  • When one of his schemes was thwarted he was up out of his chair, on the verge of violence.†   (source)
  • The "boat" was a miniature punt, used for reed-cutting—little more than a raft, with a single thwart amidships.†   (source)
  • Thwarted, he then embraced her stiffly before taking the baby in his arms under the watchful eye of his wife.†   (source)
  • If trying to thwart the efforts of Salesmen — if trying to intervene in the internal world of adolescents — doesn't seem like a particularly effective strategy against smoking, then what of stickiness?†   (source)
  • Pap Himes looked at her, at the beads, and gave the fierce, inarticulate, ludicrously futile growl of a thwarted, perplexed animal.†   (source)
  • After a week I learned that my attempt to escape the electric shop had been thwarted because rotten DeSimon had gone on vacation unannounced, and Tex wouldn't transfer me out to construction until he returned.†   (source)
  • She remembered how it pleased her to thwart them--to make them realize that her measure was different from theirs.†   (source)
  • Seabiscuit thwarted his efforts, ducking into the rail in the gaps between dogs, swerving out to avoid them, then cutting in again.†   (source)
  • The ORE consists of a series of war games in which the platoon is pitted against an opposing force of "enemy" soldiers attempting to thwart its mission.†   (source)
  • Power, true power, comes from the belief in true things, and the willingness to stand behind that belief, even if the universe itself conspires to thwart your plans.†   (source)
  • Then it began to make a slow hissing sound in the water and he still held it, bracing [44] himself against the thwart and leaning back against the pull.†   (source)
  • , thwarting an outright victory.†   (source)
  • At the very top of the slit a narrow isthmus, the Sinai, thwarted God's intention and kept Egypt and Israel connected.†   (source)
  • Together, we planned to thwart the Uprising.†   (source)
  • The six of us are on the run, trying to thwart the whitecoats' plan to destroy us and most of humanity, which makes the whitecoats crazy.†   (source)
  • You see-well, I'm thwarted ….†   (source)
  • Then the start of a moan growing into a convulsion-stopped, thwarted … suppressed?†   (source)
  • Adams never knew when Jefferson might be working secretly to undercut or thwart him, for Jefferson's abiding flaw, Adams had concluded, was "want of sincerity.†   (source)
  • Miss Bradford replied, but this time in the tone of a very young child who has been thwarted in its pursuit of a plaything.†   (source)
  • Thus thwarted, the stallion turned his wrath on Tom.†   (source)
  • When the camper tried to follow him, it was thwarted by the surging cross-traffic.†   (source)
  • I shipped the pole and moved up with him to the forward thwart, where we put the oars into the locks and rowed the boat out of the eelgrass into deeper water and around to the harbor.†   (source)
  • Their father had been as relentless and implacable as a glacier, where Cersei was all wildfire, especially when thwarted.†   (source)
  • He should have thwarted Uriel and avoided being seen by the other angels.†   (source)
  • "They …." she said, and he heard the faint trembling of her voice, which was love and pain and indignation, "they've said for years that he rose by thwarting the ability of others, by leaving them no chance, and that …. that human incompetence was to his selfish interest…… But he …. it wasn't obedience that he required of people."†   (source)
  • Will you aid me or thwart me?†   (source)
  • He had steered north hoping to come upon Florida or the Carolinas, but the blacks thwarted every attempt at freedom.†   (source)
  • They were thwarted primarily by the strong sense of religion among the soldiers in the underground barracks, who believed mystically and prayed openly, and whose memories of home and peace were intertwined with the Church and its sacraments.†   (source)
  • Differences Thwart Conspiracies†   (source)
  • The last thing Booth needs is for his escape to be thwarted by a runaway mare.†   (source)
  • I shan't let your reluctance thwart the idea any more than you let stealing stop you.†   (source)
  • Red-backed mice and meadow mice began invading Mike's cabin in such numbers that it looked as if I would soon be starving unless I could thwart their appetites for my supplies.†   (source)
  • Instead I am thwarting him, for how can a general, be he as brilliant as Caesar, possibly thrive in the democracy Robespierre and I will create in France?†   (source)
  • GUIL: Thwarted ambition-a sense of grievance, that's my diagnosis.†   (source)
  • He is thwarted in his need to be father-of-the-household.†   (source)
  • Jan also feared ridicule quite as much as anything that the Overlords might Conceivably do to thwart him.†   (source)
  • Through Leslie, I would at last assuage a basic hunger too long ruthlessly thwarted.†   (source)
  • Presently it moves for her own plate, slaps about for it, and stops, thwarted.†   (source)
  • The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.†   (source)
  • It would be dangerous to thwart him now--best go along with it and wait.†   (source)
  • He's done this out of thwarted love.†   (source)
  • To this perpetual accusation Elizabeth had never replied; she merely regarded her aunt with a wide-eyed, insolent stare, meant at once to register her disdain and to thwart any pretext for punishment.†   (source)
  • He had intentionally broken the law and dictatorially thwarted the will of Congress!†   (source)
  • Her anger was terrible to him, though he told himself continually that she was in the wrong and had no right to thwart his well-meant but unfortunate efforts.†   (source)
  • Only my greatest enemy has kept after me, and even him I have thwarted.†   (source)
  • The word senseless springs to mind, and Idris thwarts it.†   (source)
  • Had the Order thwarted him, stopped him from seizing it?†   (source)
  • What if your back-up has been thwarted by my guard?†   (source)
  • It was the purpose in life of all older people to thwart me.†   (source)
  • Now here they stood, thwarted, while precious seconds ticked away.†   (source)
  • Rage and grief, thwarted desire, lust, self-pity: these are emotions gods know well.†   (source)
  • Female voices raised in thwarted rage, the defiant yells of children.†   (source)
  • Or there'd be other magic thwarting you—like the protective spells on this museum.†   (source)
  • But as I see it, there are two options going forward to thwart Loki.†   (source)
  • "I assume you did it to thwart me," Ty said.†   (source)
  • "I've never heard of Aro's or Jane's gifts being thwarted."†   (source)
  • The way he phrased the question thwarted my answer.†   (source)
  • You will free him and thwart the plans of the giants.†   (source)
  • He felt his strength ebb as Gannel's spell thwarted whoever was trying to scry him and Saphira.†   (source)
  • He tries to thwart your progress at every step.†   (source)
  • To thwart him White Harbor must have Ned's son …. and the direwolf.†   (source)
  • And the only real thing he ever feels is annoyance when he's thwarted.†   (source)
  • He could thwart thirty ripostes, but not the thirty-first, and now his shoulder bled.†   (source)
  • Heroes always get in trouble trying to thwart them.†   (source)
  • When you thwarted her plans, she was forced to sleep again.†   (source)
  • What a tragedy that so many must die to thwart a single madman.†   (source)
  • She'll get over it," my mother kept saying, each time I relayed my thwarted efforts to reach her.†   (source)
  • For a moment Johnnie stood, thwarted and non-plussed.†   (source)
  • The combination of heat and thwarted desire made him nasty.†   (source)
  • But all she said was, "Well, let's get with the thwarting, then.†   (source)
  • My governess uncovered the scheme and could have thwarted it.†   (source)
  • He limped to the thwart and climbed on it.†   (source)
  • A coincidence gave him a new way to thwart his pursuers.†   (source)
  • Whatever Eragon attempted, Murtagh was able to thwart, and the same was true in reverse.†   (source)
  • I shipped the pole and sat down on the thwart opposite him.†   (source)
  • I'll tell you what you need to know to thwart him, but you'll have to play along.†   (source)
  • Besides, trying to thwart prophecies never works.†   (source)
  • He got on the thwart and went along it to the side.†   (source)
  • Woolf then had to resort to dirty riding to thwart Richardson.†   (source)
  • Nasuada's thoughts raced as she considered how to thwart this new menace.†   (source)
  • I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best-laid plans.†   (source)
  • In an era of time-sensitive terrorist threats, the key to thwarting disaster was often as simple as a heads-up telling you that the guy down the hall was analyzing the very data you needed.†   (source)
  • As it was, I saw only greedy and unworthy Quirrell attempting to steal the stone and, I admit, I did all I could to thwart him.†   (source)
  • Since it's only the blue tissue and the pheromones released by it that stimulate the males, there's no more unrequited love these days, no more thwarted lust; no more shadow between the desire and the act.†   (source)
  • Walt Unsworth Everest day after our first attempt to reach Camp Three was thwarted by wind and barbarous cold, everybody on Hall's team except Doug (who stayed at Camp Two to let his injured larynx heal) made another try.†   (source)
  • After a momentary thwarted frown, the Governor's wife smiles too, and says she would like him to meet Mrs. Quennell, the celebrated Spiritualist and advocate of an enlarged sphere for women, and the leading light of our Tuesday discussion circle, as well as of the spiritual Thursdays; such an accomplished person, and so widely travelled, in Boston and elsewhere.†   (source)
  • With some writers, particularly modern and postmodern writers, irony is a full-time business, so that as we read them more and more, we come to expect that they will inevitably thwart conventional expectations.†   (source)
  • The large meatpacking firms used company spies, blacklists, and African-American strikebreakers to thwart organizing efforts.†   (source)
  • …Vogels (or "the Vultures," as Grisha called them) had cooled, significantly, since I'd taken over the shop; mindful of the many, many pieces they'd in my view as good as stolen from Hobie, I now tacked on a premium to anything I even vaguely suspected they were interested in; and though Mrs. Vogel—no fool—had taken to telephoning Hobie directly, I usually managed to thwart her by (among other means) claiming to Hobie that I'd already sold the piece in question and forgotten to tag it.†   (source)
  • 'No, Bella, he is not lying… I see the truth looking at me from within his worthless mind… months of preparation, months of effort… and my Death Eaters have let Harry Potter thwart me again …I 'Master, I am sorry I knew not, I was fighting the Animagus Black!' sobbed Bellatrix, flinging herself down at Voldemort's feet as he paced slowly nearer.†   (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)
  • I went out to get another bottle, but I was thwarted by the ATM, which gave me the much-anticipated riposte: There are insufficient funds in your account.†   (source)
  • Denver was alarmed by the harm she thought Beloved planned for Sethe, but felt helpless to thwart it, so unrestricted was her need to love another.†   (source)
  • Several times we heard rumors that our enemies were starting to hunt down other descendants of the pharaohs, trying to thwart our plans.†   (source)
  • I knew that back inside the house Rina was probably mad at me for thwarting her plans, and Mike Evans had most likely already put his jacket back on and reported to everyone that in my fall I'd whacked my head and was now, clearly, insane.†   (source)
  • He knew, he was certain, that there was hardly any time left in which to beat Voldemort to his goal, or else to attempt to thwart him.†   (source)
  • He could not believe that he was this close, and was going to be thwarted by Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle.†   (source)
  • The meatpacking industry's allies in Congress worked hard in the 1990s to thwart modernization of the nation's meat inspection system.†   (source)
  • In spite of all the temptation you have endured, all the suffering, you remain pure of heart, just as pure as you were at the age of eleven, when you stared into a mir-ror that reflected your heart's desire, and it showed you only the way to thwart Lord Voldemort, and not immortality or riches.†   (source)
  • McDonald's decentralized hiring practices have helped thwart efforts to organize the company's workers.†   (source)
  • He had been thwarted, both in his attempts to find out what Malfoy was doing, and in his efforts to start a conversation with Slughorn that might lead, somehow, to Slughorn hand-ing over the memory he had apparently suppressed for decades.†   (source)
  • Aunt Laura had been in love with him, but we'd thwarted her — disposed of this unknown lover somehow.†   (source)
  • I'd given that up by now I knew I would have been thwarted by her, just as I was thwarted by Reenie and my father, and would have been thwarted by my mother, if she hadn't died.†   (source)
  • The IFA has hired Allen Coffey, Jr., the former general counsel of the House Judiciary Committee, and Andy Ireland, a former Republican congressman who was the ranking member of the House Small Business Committee, to help thwart greater federal regulation of franchising.†   (source)
  • As soon as the attempt had been thwarted by a wrist grab from behind or a body tackle from the front or a neat clip on the jaw, she folded up into herself and wept cleansing tears right there and later under Pilate's strap—to which she submitted with relief.†   (source)
  • That's the great puzzle of what happened at the Getty, and the answer is that those feelings, for one reason or another, were thwarted.†   (source)
  • Melisandre huddled upon a thwart, lost in the folds of a dark red cloak that covered her from head to heels, her face a paleness beneath the cowl.†   (source)
  • Behind him other men took up the chase, thwarted by the increasingly hostile passengers who began using suitcases and knapsacks to ward off the bewildering assaults.†   (source)
  • Defying him had not always been easy, but she held to her rituals of thought and speech and, with them, she had been able to thwart the king.†   (source)
  • This was the downfall of a nation and the triumph of systems designed to thwart all human contact, human reason, personal discretion and decision making.†   (source)
  • It was all we could do to thwart her calling/driving by/going to his work impulse, which we all knew never led to any good in a dumping situation.†   (source)
  • But I'd been waiting for a chance to talk to my mother for too long, always finding myself thwarted in one way or another, by my fears or her own.†   (source)
  • She is eager to leave, to escape this place where her brother was murdered and she rose to prominence only to be thwarted by a factionless woman who wasn't supposed to be alive.†   (source)
  • It seemed so wrong to her, and raised such anger in her, that for a moment she was almost tempted to shoot Call, just to thwart Gus.†   (source)
  • I do wonder now if that was why I suddenly found the focus and the ability to go on, and to help Luke thwart the Uprising.†   (source)
  • In their coming together they thwart the demons, his and hers, and when his cry of release comes it punctuates her soft exclamations.†   (source)
  • Brom swore to thwart Morzan however and wherever he could, to undo his accomplishments and reduce his ambitions to bitter regrets.†   (source)
  • Can you remember I can remember the tail slapping and banging and the thwart breaking and the/ " noise of the clubbing.†   (source)
  • "It's not about thwarting you, Ty.†   (source)
  • It is common naval practice for ships to douse their running lights at night, all the better to thwart smugglers.†   (source)
  • Contrarians pointed out that you had to assume that the feds would thwart you brutally given the chance, and that such mistakes were avoidable, but everyone's hearts ached collectively for her.†   (source)
  • She wept uncontrollably for the dead room-service waiter whose name she didn't know, for Denny and Rebekah and unborn Felicia whose lives now seemed perpetually suspended on a slender thread, for her own loss of innocence and self-respect, for the three hundred and thirty people aboard Flight 353, for justice thwarted and hope lost.†   (source)
  • Eragon had spent the rest of that day gathering supplies, studying maps of the Empire with Saphira, and casting what spells he felt were necessary, such as one to thwart attempts by Galbatorix or his minions to scry Roran.†   (source)
  • Maybe we have them without . knowing of it He made the fish fast to bow and stern and to the middle thwart.†   (source)
  • "Thwarted Gaea," the first judge said.†   (source)
  • I pulled back abruptly and, putting the thwart between us, grabbed up the hard, solid pole, stood and jammed it down into the water.†   (source)
  • Between her, Blodhgarm's spellcasters, and the magicians of Du Vrangr Gata, we should have a fair chance of thwarting Murtagh.†   (source)
  • Blackberry was fidgeting on and off the thwart, strung up, able to feel only too clearly all that Hazel felt himself.†   (source)
  • To think you've managed to thwart Galbatorix and that right now the entire village of Carvahall is hiding outside one of the Empire's largest cities and the king doesn't even know it…… " He shook his head with admiration.†   (source)
  • Hazel had thwarted Gaea's plans that time, but she'd had to pull down the cavern, sacrificing her life and her mother's.†   (source)
  • Smith was determined to thwart them.†   (source)
  • I was terrified that I might actually see tears in his eyes and so to avoid that sight more than anything else, I slipped off the thwart, crossed the narrow space between us on my knees, and put my arms around him.†   (source)
  • Some of the rabbits, in the first confusion of boarding the punt, had found themselves in this water, but now all had got clear of it—most either to bows or stern, though Thethuthinnang and Speedwell were hunched on the narrow thwart, amidships.†   (source)
  • The vivid and valuable passages—the ones which in general I refrained from throwing away—seemed to me later to be the ones having to do with my emasculations, my thwarted manhood and truncated passions.†   (source)
  • Charlie, Dick, and the young man, Tony Marston, stood in the middle of a field; Charlie hot and angry and impatient (for he could not bear to be thwarted at the best of times), Dick stubborn and miserable, Marston sensitive to the situation and trying to efface himself "Damn it, Charlie, why kick me off like this?†   (source)
  • Thus when I found myself sitting rather primly next to Leslie beneath the Degas, I did not feel at all thwarted by the entrance of Minnie bearing champagne and (another of the several "firsts" I was to experience that evening) fresh beluga caviar.†   (source)
  • As a matter of fact, so oblivious had she been in recent weeks of the final scene of Gotterdammerung being performed on the stage at Nuremberg that she was quite unaware even that Goring had been sentenced to the gallows, and she was left strangely unmoved by this news that he had thwarted the hangman only hours before his scheduled execution.†   (source)
  • Unless—unless (and the second thought caught her up short and made her sit tremblingly on the stairs) this convicted forger, who wielded so much power in the house, should seize upon that moment of thwarted venery as a way to get back at Sophie, work out her frustration by turning love into vengeance, run to the Commandant with some tale of wrongdoing (specifically, that it was the other prisoner who had initiated the seduction), and in this way shatter to bits the framework of…†   (source)
  • How could she help but die young, cramped and thwarted?†   (source)
  • As with The Post, he felt thwarted, netted, trapped.†   (source)
  • He was sitting on a thwart, there, hands between his knees.†   (source)
  • He thought she had been cheated out of something very important and might grow up thwarted.†   (source)
  • If you don't go on that, you will be altering your plans deliberately, so as to thwart justice.†   (source)
  • His chief, but thwarted, ambition was to be elected to membership in a fraternity.†   (source)
  • Nobody succeeds in thwarting justice, Agravaine.†   (source)
  • Because she hated herself, she hated them all with the fury of the thwarted and humiliated love of sixteen.†   (source)
  • Led by three young Black Minorca pullets, the hens made a determined effort to thwart Napoleon's wishes.†   (source)
  • Then we knew that this was to be expected too; as if that quality of her father which had thwarted her woman's life so many times had been too virulent and too furious to die.†   (source)
  • If we do none of these, then we should not pretend horror or surprise when thwarted life expresses itself in fear and hate and crime.†   (source)
  • For easily though she might have said at some moment of intimacy when stories of great passion, of love foiled, of ambition thwarted came her way how she too had known or felt or been through it herself, she never spoke.†   (source)
  • Did you think 'thwarted'?"†   (source)
  • If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason and courtesy; but just because the contention is reversed and each side is fighting the other side's battle, all the bitterness which really flows from thwarted self-righteousness and obstinacy and the accumulated grudges of the last ten years is concealed from them by the nominal or official "Unselfishness" of what they are doing or, at least, held to be excused by it.†   (source)
  • The woman of Pablo could feel her rage changing to sorrow and to a feeling of the thwarting of all hope and promise.†   (source)
  • She had been reading too fast because it was past the little girls' bedtime and now she was thwarted by a fit of hiccups.†   (source)
  • And maybe it (the voice, the talking, the incredulous and unbearable amazement) had even been a cry aloud once, Quentin thought, long ago when she was a girl—of young and indomitable unregret, of indictment of blind circumstance and savage event, but not now: now only the lonely thwarted old female flesh embattled for forty-three years in the old insult, the old unforgiving outraged and betrayed by the final and complete affront which was Sutpen's death: "He wasn't a gentleman.†   (source)
  • Now was the time, they all knew, if there ever was to be a time, when he ought to have it out with his friend and king—yet Guenever was thwarting him.†   (source)
  • But still the phrases flickered on as ephemeral and capricious as before, as thwarting-the abrupt and fragmentary glimpses of a figure passing behind the brief notches of parapets.†   (source)
  • For it needs little skill in psychology to be sure that a highly gifted girl who had tried to use her gift for poetry would have been so thwarted and hindered by other people, so tortured and pulled asunder by her own contrary instincts, that she must have lost her health and sanity to a certainty.†   (source)
  • Scarlett raged at both Frank and Mammy, then was reduced to begging and finally cried all one morning like a furious thwarted child.†   (source)
  • 'Thwarted passion,' I thought."†   (source)
  • He did not know what this man had become with time, disappointment, bitterness both domestic and political, and thwarted ambition and that to question him was one of the most dangerous things that any man could do.†   (source)
  • In their anger they hoped that the breeze would never rise, that he might be thwarted in every possible way, since he had forced them to come against their wills.†   (source)
  • He threw his immense weight on me, he was heavy as brass, and I fell over a thwart with my face on the cleats of the bottom.†   (source)
  • Their hostility was bitter: G. T. set himself to thwart and ruin the beginnings of the boy's university life.†   (source)
  • And it came back to me that this was how she had sat in the liner, before the storm; this was how she had looked, and I realized that she had regained what I thought she had lost forever, the magical sadness which had drawn me to her, the thwarted look that had seemed to say, "Surely I was made for some other purpose than this?"†   (source)
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