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  • I was thwarted ....thwarted, once again, by Harry Potter.†   (source)
  • They prepared to send a report to the mainland, only to be thwarted by the presence of Mr. Curtain on the plaza.†   (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)
  • Mr. Brinker-Smith found the twins' methods of thwarting his various inventions "fascinating"; he was i true scientist—the failures of his experiments were almost as interesting to him as his successes, and his determination to press forward, with more and more twin-inspired inventions, was resolute.†   (source)
  • So far we have thwarted their plan.†   (source)
  • An uprising requires breaking the law, thwarting authority.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • What can it be that thwarts us?†   (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)
  • He's not used to being thwarted, no matter how insignificant the object.†   (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)
  • Or there'd be other magic thwarting you—like the protective spells on this museum.†   (source)
  • Again, my hope for a storybook dalliance was thwarted by the fact that the stream was only about six inches deep.†   (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)
  • Their efforts were always thwarted.†   (source)
  • And now I feel desperate, thwarted.†   (source)
  • Thwarted yet wondering, she chopped away with the hoe.†   (source)
  • Thwarted kidnapping?†   (source)
  • It was the one reminder of Cass's thwarted college plans that she hadn't taken down yet.†   (source)
  • He felt his strength ebb as Gannel's spell thwarted whoever was trying to scry him and Saphira.†   (source)
  • He was baffled, thwarted, muzzled.†   (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)
  • Thwarted, he then embraced her stiffly before taking the baby in his arms under the watchful eye of his wife.†   (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)
  • At the very top of the slit a narrow isthmus, the Sinai, thwarted God's intention and kept Egypt and Israel connected.†   (source)
  • When one of his schemes was thwarted he was up out of his chair, on the verge of violence.†   (source)
  • , thwarting an outright victory.†   (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)
  • Pap Himes looked at her, at the beads, and gave the fierce, inarticulate, ludicrously futile growl of a thwarted, perplexed animal.†   (source)
  • Thus thwarted, the stallion turned his wrath on Tom.†   (source)
  • My plans for apple pie were thwarted by the lack of a pie pan, so I made apple crisp.†   (source)
  • But in my case of sacrificial effort I was thwarted.†   (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)
  • He should have thwarted Uriel and avoided being seen by the other angels.†   (source)
  • You see-well, I'm thwarted ....Oh, damn, there I go again, thinking only of myself ....We're both frustrated, understand?†   (source)
  • Seabiscuit thwarted his efforts, ducking into the rail in the gaps between dogs, swerving out to avoid them, then cutting in again.†   (source)
  • Their father had been as relentless and implacable as a glacier, where Cersei was all wildfire, especially when thwarted.†   (source)
  • Then the start of a moan growing into a convulsion-stopped, thwarted ...suppressed?†   (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)
  • 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)
  • When the camper tried to follow him, it was thwarted by the surging cross-traffic.†   (source)
  • It's not about thwarting you, Ty.†   (source)
  • The last thing Booth needs is for his escape to be thwarted by a runaway mare.†   (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)
  • The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.†   (source)
  • He is thwarted in his need to be father-of-the-household.†   (source)
  • Presently it moves for her own plate, slaps about for it, and stops, thwarted.†   (source)
  • Through Leslie, I would at last assuage a basic hunger too long ruthlessly thwarted.†   (source)
  • He's done this out of thwarted love.†   (source)
  • He had intentionally broken the law and dictatorially thwarted the will of Congress!†   (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)
  • To the high mountain peaks of faith and sanctity he would have climbed, had not the tendency been thwarted by the burden, whatever it might be, of crime or anguish, beneath which it was his doom to totter.   (source)
    thwarted = prevented
  • Only my greatest enemy has kept after me, and even him I have thwarted.†   (source)
  • What if your back-up has been thwarted by my guard?†   (source)
  • Had the Order thwarted him, stopped him from seizing it?†   (source)
  • I've never heard of Aro's or Jane's gifts being thwarted.†   (source)
  • The word senseless springs to mind, and Idris thwarts it.†   (source)
  • Now here they stood, thwarted, while precious seconds ticked away.†   (source)
  • Female voices raised in thwarted rage, the defiant yells of children.†   (source)
  • When you thwarted her plans, she was forced to sleep again.†   (source)
  • The way he phrased the question thwarted my answer.†   (source)
  • And the only real thing he ever feels is annoyance when he's thwarted.†   (source)
  • My governess uncovered the scheme and could have thwarted it.†   (source)
  • For a moment Johnnie stood, thwarted and non-plussed.†   (source)
  • She'll get over it," my mother kept saying, each time I relayed my thwarted efforts to reach her.†   (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)
  • I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best-laid plans.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • He could not believe that he was this close, and was going to be thwarted by Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle.†   (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 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 handing 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)
  • Between her, Blodhgarm's spellcasters, and the magicians of Du Vrangr Gata, we should have a fair chance of thwarting Murtagh.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Even when they tried to change their shapes, the gods had no luck, as if the magic of the box were thwarting them.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • "Thwarted Gaea," the first judge said.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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 Sophie's all-too-unsubstantial future.†   (source)
  • He thought she had been cheated out of something very important and might grow up thwarted.†   (source)
  • How could she help but die young, cramped and thwarted?†   (source)
  • As with The Post, he felt thwarted, netted, trapped.†   (source)
  • Nobody succeeds in thwarting justice, Agravaine.†   (source)
  • His chief, but thwarted, ambition was to be elected to membership in a fraternity.†   (source)
  • Did you think 'thwarted'?†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The woman of Pablo could feel her rage changing to sorrow and to a feeling of the thwarting of all hope and promise.†   (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)
  • Because she hated herself, she hated them all with the fury of the thwarted and humiliated love of sixteen.†   (source)
  • Now the moment had come, the officer gave the order to fire, and —' 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Scarlett raged at both Frank and Mammy, then was reduced to begging and finally cried all one morning like a furious thwarted child.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • '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)
  • But now she knew her feelings of that long-past night were those of a spoiled child thwarted of a toy.†   (source)
  • As the days lengthened out wearily, the girl became more and more bitter over her thwarted honeymoon.†   (source)
  • He could not bear to be thwarted in his day-dream of revenge, so he was wreaking his spite on Agravaine in his thoughts, saying to himself that the latter was a drunken traitor to the family.†   (source)
  • They hoped he would be thwarted.†   (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)
  • One had a sense of physical well-being in the presence of this well-nourished, well-educated, free mind, which had never been thwarted or opposed, but had had full liberty from birth to stretch itself in whatever way it liked.†   (source)
  • Cool hidden cisterns would bring him air; from a peephole in the hillside he could look down on a winding road and see armed men seeking for him, or hear their thwarted gropings overhead.†   (source)
  • When thwarted or annoyed in any way, the heavy benevolence of her face was dislodged by a thunder-cloud of petulance, and her wide pouting underlip rolled out like a window-shade.†   (source)
  • Any nation that thwarts such endeavors will undoubtedly find itself the object of moral ostracism.†   (source)
  • He looked back, his pale and bloody face that of a thwarted demon.†   (source)
  • She was not so sure as her husband that they did right in thwarting so strong an inclination.†   (source)
  • He laid himself down under the thwarts and waited, panting.†   (source)
  • But London thwarted her; in its atmosphere she could not concentrate.†   (source)
  • I should never dream of thwarting the artistic vocation of a child; nor Vinteuil either, it seems.†   (source)
  • In it was a hunger of thwarted hate that held men mute.†   (source)
  • Half the town would almost take trouble for the sake of thwarting him.†   (source)
  • For who would dare chase him to the depths of the sea when he thwarted all attacks on the surface?†   (source)
  • But one distressing circumstance totally thwarted the Canadian's plans.†   (source)
  • Six rowers sat on the thwarts, and the coxswain took the tiller.†   (source)
  • Just as Life, after ages of struggle, evolved that wonderful bodily organ the eye, so that the living organism could see where it was going and what was coming to help or threaten it, and thus avoid a thousand dangers that formerly slew it, so it is evolving to-day a mind's eye that shall see, not the physical world, but the purpose of Life, and thereby enable the individual to work for that purpose instead of thwarting and baffling it by setting up shortsighted personal aims as at present.†   (source)
  • Draw lines of crime, of incompetency, of vice, as tightly and uncompromisingly as you will, for these things must be proscribed; but a color-line not only does not accomplish this purpose, but thwarts it.†   (source)
  • But Jim did not know the almost inconceivable egotism of the man which made him, when resisted and foiled in his will, mad with the indignant and revengeful rage of a thwarted autocrat.†   (source)
  • A skiff, however, lay beside the pier, with some seamen sleeping on the thwarts; this, as Ransome told me, was the brig's boat waiting for the captain; and about half a mile off, and all alone in the anchorage, he showed me the Covenant herself.†   (source)
  • Those ruffians, the Gods, shan't have it all their own way,—her notion being that the Gods, who never lost a chance of hurting, thwarting and spoiling human lives were seriously put out if, all the same, you behaved like a lady.†   (source)
  • I have felt their hard, rough hands and realized what an endless struggle their existence must be—no more than a series of scrimmages, thwarted attempts to do something.†   (source)
  • She had, in short, failed to make herself indispensable; or rather, her attempt to do so had been thwarted by an influence stronger than any she could exert.†   (source)
  • And as he asked the question a disappointment which was not entirely the disappointment of thwarted duty crossed d'Urberville's face.†   (source)
  • Here he was, for instance, vowing upon his knees that he would save Ona from harm, and only a week later she was suffering atrociously, and from the blow of an enemy that he could not possibly have thwarted.†   (source)
  • It is a very strange thing, this sleep-walking, for as soon as her will is thwarted in any physical way, her intention, if there be any, disappears, and she yields herself almost exactly to the routine of her life.†   (source)
  • He sounded the clacker till his arm ached, and at length his heart grew sympathetic with the birds' thwarted desires.†   (source)
  • It was as if his fretted, tortured soul, run hot by thwarted passion, jetted off these sayings like sparks from electricity.†   (source)
  • He was not to be thwarted.†   (source)
  • Mr. Vyse was a tease—something worse than a tease: he took a malicious pleasure in thwarting people.†   (source)
  • I lay across one of the thwarts for I know not how long, thinking that if I had the strength I would drink sea-water and madden myself to die quickly.†   (source)
  • He felt restless and thwarted as he listened to the retreating sounds of the procession, and his joy was rather spoilt by bewilderment.†   (source)
  • Peering into the hogan, he saw Glen Naspa flounce sullenly down, for all the world like any other thwarted girl.†   (source)
  • Those black angularities which his face had used to put on when his wishes were thwarted now did duty in picturing the incorrigible backslider who would insist upon turning again to his wallowing in the mire.†   (source)
  • THAT uses the individual for its own ends, trampling upon him if he thwarts it, rewarding him with medals, pensions, honours, when he serves it faithfully; THIS, strong only in his independence, threads his way through the state, for convenience' sake, paying in money or service for certain benefits, but with no sense of obligation; and, indifferent to the rewards, asks only to be left alone.†   (source)
  • You have aided in thwarting me.†   (source)
  • The llama was still on the launch with the rabbit hutches; the staghounds were still lashed to the thwarts.†   (source)
  • "You said, sir, you would like to help me, but"— "Yes; but I added, to help you it would be sufficient that Dantes did not marry her you love; and the marriage may easily be thwarted, methinks, and yet Dantes need not die."†   (source)
  • It makes me very nervous and poorly, to be thwarted so in my own family, and to have neighbors who think of themselves before anybody else.†   (source)
  • said Estella, "to know what satisfaction it gives me to see those people thwarted, or what an enjoyable sense of the ridiculous I have when they are made ridiculous.†   (source)
  • It was the sad confession and continual exemplification of the shortcomings of the composite man, the spirit burdened with clay and working in matter, and of the despair that assails the higher nature at finding itself so miserably thwarted by the earthly part.†   (source)
  • of our past party dissensions, up to its proper level of a high and broad nationality, it surely is to be found, found abundantly, in the manner in which other nations have undertaken to intrude themselves into it, between us and the proper parties to the case, in a spirit of hostile interference against us, for the avowed object of thwarting our policy and hampering our power, limiting our greatness and checking the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.†   (source)
  • He has deceived her in her love, humbled her in her pride, thwarted her in her ambition; and now he ruins her fortune, deprives her of liberty, and even threatens her life.†   (source)
  • To Beatrice,—so radically had her earthly part been wrought upon by Rappaccini's skill,—as poison had been life, so the powerful antidote was death; and thus the poor victim of man's ingenuity and of thwarted nature, and of the fatality that attends all such efforts of perverted wisdom, perished there, at the feet of her father and Giovanni.†   (source)
  • Is he in a hardened or a softened mood, he still lays his injuries equally at that door; he was thwarted, in that quarter, of a set purpose, and that purpose could only originate in the one subject that is resolving his existence into itself; besides, it is a justification to him in his own eyes to have an embodied antagonist and oppressor.†   (source)
  • As a rule, they don't do much reading, except for a few story-books, till they are about fifteen years old; we don't encourage early bookishness: though you will find some children who will take to books very early; which perhaps is not good for them; but it's no use thwarting them; and very often it doesn't last long with them, and they find their level before they are twenty years old.†   (source)
  • I am thwarted in every thing material.†   (source)
  • It may be apprehended that men, perpetually thwarted in their designs by the mutability of the legislation, will learn to look upon republican institutions as an inconvenient form of society; the evil resulting from the instability of the secondary enactments might then raise a doubt as to the nature of the fundamental principles of the Constitution, and indirectly bring about a revolution; but this epoch is still very remote.†   (source)
  • To have taken the field openly against his rival would have been madness; for he was not a man to be thwarted in his amours, any more than that stormy lover, Achilles.†   (source)
  • He had a dark face, with stern features and a heavy brow; his eyes and gathered eyebrows looked ireful and thwarted just now; he was past youth, but had not reached middle-age; perhaps he might be thirty-five.†   (source)
  • This being, made only for happiness, and heretofore so miserably failing to be happy,—his tendencies so hideously thwarted, that, some unknown time ago, the delicate springs of his character, never morally or intellectually strong, had given way, and he was now imbecile,—this poor, forlorn voyager from the Islands of the Blest, in a frail bark, on a tempestuous sea, had been flung, by the last mountain-wave of his shipwreck, into a quiet harbor.†   (source)
  • When I consider how, amid the stillness of my chambers, Nippers would sometimes impatiently rise from his seat, and stooping over his table, spread his arms wide apart, seize the whole desk, and move it, and jerk it, with a grim, grinding motion on the floor, as if the table were a perverse voluntary agent, intent on thwarting and vexing him; I plainly perceive that for Nippers, brandy and water were altogether superfluous.†   (source)
  • To be thwarted in this reasonable desire was always very injurious to the old gentleman; and resistance became doubly exasperating when gout, age, loneliness, and the force of many disappointments combined to weigh him down.†   (source)
  • 'So, so,' muttered Ralph, dropping into his chair; 'this devil is loose again, and thwarting me, as he was born to do, at every turn.†   (source)
  • It is often the case when we are thwarted in a cherished scheme, that any expedient, however unlikely to succeed, is gladly resorted to in preference to a total abandonment of the project.†   (source)
  • Athwart the mysterious words which had been uttered, the only thing of which he caught a distinct glimpse was the fact that an ambush was in course of preparation, a dark but terrible trap; that both of them were incurring great danger, she probably, her father certainly; that they must be saved; that the hideous plots of the Jondrettes must be thwarted, and the web of these spiders broken.†   (source)
  • It expressed, plainer than words could do, the intensest anguish at having made himself the instrument of thwarting his own revenge.†   (source)
  • The square oars rang in the iron thwarts, and, in the stillness, seemed to mark time, like the beating of a metronome, while at the stern the rudder that trailed behind never ceased its gentle splash against the water.†   (source)
  • Could he, for an instant, have supposed that, in my admonisher at Eton—in the destroyer of my honor at Oxford,—in him who thwarted my ambition at Rome, my revenge at Paris, my passionate love at Naples, or what he falsely termed my avarice in Egypt,—that in this, my arch-enemy and evil genius, could fall to recognise the William Wilson of my school boy days,—the namesake, the companion, the rival,—the hated and dreaded rival at Dr. Bransby's?†   (source)
  • If Mr. Tulliver had ever seriously injured or thwarted the attorney, Wakem would not have refused him the distinction of being a special object of his vindictiveness.†   (source)
  • This is not much connected with Miss Isabella's affair: except that it urged me to resolve further on mounting vigilant guard, and doing my utmost to cheek the spread of such bad influence at the Grange: even though I should wake a domestic storm, by thwarting Mrs. Linton's pleasure.†   (source)
  • As Mr Squeers could only answer this proposition by shrugs and smiles, Ralph bade him be silent, and thankful that he was so well off; and then, fixing his eyes steadily upon him, proceeded to say: First, that Nicholas had thwarted him in a plan he had formed for the disposal in marriage of a certain young lady, and had, in the confusion attendant on her father's sudden death, secured that lady himself, and borne her off in triumph.†   (source)
  • In other people's presence I was, as formerly, deferential and quiet; any other line of conduct being uncalled for: it was only in the evening conferences I thus thwarted and afflicted him.†   (source)
  • He had meant everything to turn out differently; and others had thrust themselves into his life and thwarted his purposes.†   (source)
  • She rebelled against her lot, she fainted under its loneliness, and fits even of anger and hatred toward her father and mother, who were so unlike what she would have them to be; toward Tom, who checked her, and met her thought or feeling always by some thwarting difference,—would flow out over her affections and conscience like a lava stream, and frighten her with a sense that it was not difficult for her to become a demon.†   (source)
  • Mercedes opened the door of the study and had disappeared before he had recovered from the painful and profound revery into which his thwarted vengeance had plunged him.†   (source)
  • My pupil was a lively child, who had been spoilt and indulged, and therefore was sometimes wayward; but as she was committed entirely to my care, and no injudicious interference from any quarter ever thwarted my plans for her improvement, she soon forgot her little freaks, and became obedient and teachable.†   (source)
  • But she hesitated, fearing to offend him by obtruding herself; for her ardor, continually repulsed, served, with her intense memory, to heighten her dread, as thwarted energy subsides into a shudder; and she wandered slowly round the nearer clumps of trees until she saw him advancing.†   (source)
  • "No, Maximilian, I am not offended," answered she, "but do you not see what a poor, helpless being I am, almost a stranger and an outcast in my father's house, where even he is seldom seen; whose will has been thwarted, and spirits broken, from the age of ten years, beneath the iron rod so sternly held over me; oppressed, mortified, and persecuted, day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute, no person has cared for, even observed my sufferings, nor have I ever breathed one word on the subject save to yourself.†   (source)
  • John no one thwarted, much less punished; though he twisted the necks of the pigeons, killed the little pea-chicks, set the dogs at the sheep, stripped the hothouse vines of their fruit, and broke the buds off the choicest plants in the conservatory: he called his mother "old girl," too; sometimes reviled her for her dark skin, similar to his own; bluntly disregarded her wishes; not unfrequently tore and spoiled her silk attire; and he was still "her own darling."†   (source)
  • He was at a starting-point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose, with all the possible thwartings and furtherings of circumstance, all the niceties of inward balance, by which a man swims and makes his point or else is carried headlong.†   (source)
  • But this power of generalizing which gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals, was immediately thwarted by Lydgate's memory of wondering impressions from the behavior of another woman—from Dorothea's looks and tones of emotion about her husband when Lydgate began to attend him—from her passionate cry to be taught what would best comfort that man for whose sake it seemed as if she must quell every impulse in her except the yearnings of faithfulness and compassion.†   (source)
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  • He made the fish fast to bow and stern and to the middle thwart.   (source)
    thwart = seat of a row boat
  • Can you remember I can remember the tail slapping and banging and the thwart breaking and the noise of the clubbing.   (source)
  • Then it began to make a slow hissing sound in the water and he still held it, bracing himself against the thwart and leaning back against the pull.   (source)
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