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  • Snow and rain were reduced to scenery nearly as much as any other kind of weather, something to look out the window at but nothing that hindered you.†   (source)
  • "He's an extraordinary child, isn't he?" said Number Two, her speech somewhat hindered by a mouthful of biscuit.†   (source)
  • WANTED FOR ASSAULT, ARSON, THEFT, DESTRUCTION OF MILITARY PROPERTY, AND HINDERING THE WAR EFFORT 200,000 REPUBLIC NOTES FOR INFORMATION LEADING TO ARREST†   (source)
  • About his mother, who had died shortly after his three-days-old sister, leaving Hobie an only child; and about the young Jesuit father, a football coach, who—telephoned by a panicky Irish housemaid when Hobie's father was beating Hobie "to Hinders practically" with a belt—had dashed to the house, rolled up his sleeves, and punched Hobie's father to the ground.†   (source)
  • I noted every place he had gone, every experience, every person he recalled who had helped or hindered him along the way.†   (source)
  • The Urgals had not been hindered at all.†   (source)
  • Blow out your light and get lost in the black, or leave it burn and blow the whole place to Hinders.†   (source)
  • Our father paid to have our larger boxes carried aboard and stowed away; it was a shame to waste the money but it was the only way to do it, as he could not carry all the things on by himself, as the porters were coarse and importunate, and would have hindered him.†   (source)
  • We can be hindered in our developmentand our personal growth by political conditions, for instance.†   (source)
  • Quite often she lay passively beneath them, not helping or hindering, until it was over.†   (source)
  • Objectively, that which aids us in carrying out our mission is good, that which hinders us is bad.†   (source)
  • He believed he was hindering the entire team because of his frostbite.†   (source)
  • You are hindering Nico.†   (source)
  • We were in bad shape, because that hindered our ability to do anything on second and third down.†   (source)
  • Fernanda, on the other hand, looked for it in vain along the paths of her everyday itinerary without knowing that the search for lost things is hindered by routine habits and that is why it is so difficult to find them.†   (source)
  • The Harkonnens have hindered and hounded and hunted me for the last time, he thought.†   (source)
  • The lack of a standardized steer has hindered the mechanization of beef plants.†   (source)
  • There they are valued for their light skin, good looks, docility, and inability to speak the local language, hindering the possibility of escape.†   (source)
  • But I told him I had received previous complaints from some of the younger men that the radio is already so loud it hinders conversation and reading.†   (source)
  • The window was guarded by iron bars set about four inches apart, and in front of these, toward the inside of the house, was a screen that hindered my view.†   (source)
  • If that reptile hinders you in anyway, Max, you do whatever is necessary to get your father, David, and Mum out.†   (source)
  • But this hindered them; for the grass was thick and tussocky, and the ground uneven, and the trees began to draw together into thickets.†   (source)
  • Elyon's anger is directed toward anything that hinders his love.†   (source)
  • Buyers and sellers of death were not to be hindered.†   (source)
  • They shall in no way be hindered from returning out of said port, but may remove and depart when they please without any let or hinderance.†   (source)
  • Of all the issues that hindered the peace process, none was more devastating and frustrating than the escalation of violence in the country.†   (source)
  • I don't know what helping would entail, but I have a feeling it would be hindered by my silence, so he's on his own.†   (source)
  • It had hindered him in the army because men thought he was not aggressive enough, but he was a good soldier, a dependable soldier, and all his life he had felt things more deeply than anyone knew-except her, so very briefly, before she died, as she was dying...Don't think on that.†   (source)
  • Macedon saw its progress but internal dissensions hindered her from stopping it.†   (source)
  • Blood is only so useful, or hindering.†   (source)
  • Well, he often refers to his position here as something temporary, hindering him from getting on with his real work, which I think is some form of mathematics.†   (source)
  • Close to the stream, rocks of granite and quartz provided safe footing; and the trees, sprouting from every pocket of clay, were thick enough to give a welcome shade, but not so thick that they hindered progress.†   (source)
  • But lock nor bar may hinder the homecoming spoken of old.   (source)
    hinder = prevent (cause problems)
  • Another swoop and another, and another house and then another sprang afire and fell; and still no arrow hindered Smaug or hurt him more than a fly from the marshes.   (source)
    hindered = created difficulty
  • Mrs. Fairfax had pressed me into her service, and I was all day in the storeroom, helping (or hindering) her and the cook; learning to make custards and cheese-cakes and French pastry, to truss game and garnish desert-dishes.   (source)
    hindering = slowing down or causing problems for
  • Astonished and shocked at so unlover-like a speech, she was almost ready to cry out, "Lord! what should hinder it?"   (source)
    hinder = slowed down or caused problems for
  • That should prevent them from hindering us.†   (source)
  • There was a small log cabin there, smashed to Hinders.†   (source)
  • Behind him Saphira went to the river so she could follow them without being hindered by the trees.†   (source)
  • It may be that the counsels of the Enemy will be confused, or hindered by his wrath with Saruman.†   (source)
  • Anything that hinders his bride's love, he detests.†   (source)
  • By hindering me, David Menlo, you merely prolong mankind's suffering.†   (source)
  • I've decided it's a device for hindering communication between artist and audience.†   (source)
  • On defense, they knew I was hindered by the injury to my shoulder and couldn't be myself, so they started dropping more and more people into coverage, believing I wouldn't run very often, if at all.†   (source)
  • I helped, or rather hindered, a little.†   (source)
  • 'I do not know of anything else that could have hindered him, except the Enemy himself,' said Strider.†   (source)
  • 'He left a message,' said Merry, 'and I was coming to it, but I have been hindered by many other questions.†   (source)
  • Yet in some fashion they seemed to weave a single dance, neither hindering the other, in and out of the room, and round about the table; and with great speed food and vessels and lights were set in order.†   (source)
  • So refreshed and encouraged did they feel at the end of their supper (about three quarters of an hour's steady going, not hindered by unnecessary talk) that Frodo, Pippin, and Sam decided to join the company.†   (source)
  • We can bide our time, we can keep our thoughts in our hearts, deploring maybe evils done by the way, but approving the high and ultimate purpose: Knowledge, Rule, Order; all the things that we have so far striven in vain to accomplish, hindered rather than helped by our weak or idle friends.†   (source)
  • 'The Lord's errands are urgent and should not be hindered by me,' said Beregond; 'but tell me quickly, if you may: what goes forward?†   (source)
  • The orcs hindered by the mires that lay before the hills halted and poured their arrows into the defending ranks.†   (source)
  • Immediately he felt the great burden of its weight, and felt afresh, but now more strong and urgent than ever, the malice of the Eye of Mordor, searching, trying to pierce the shadows that it had made for its own defence, but which now hindered it in its unquiet and doubt.†   (source)
  • In silent farewell, he saluted the men he had known, whether they had hindered or helped him ta his purpose.†   (source)
  • Her lips spoke with difficulty and as though something hindered them, as though a keen frost had numbed her face; but between her lips at the corners of her mouth where the tip of her tongue showed at rare intervals, there was but sweet sensuality and inward delight that contradicted the expression of her face and the tone of her voice.†   (source)
  • He said again that Trinidad Lucero was studying with him, and was supposed to be his secretary,—adding that he spent most of his time hanging about the kitchen and hindering the girls at their work.†   (source)
  • And one must conclude that it would be a thousand pities if it were hindered or wasted, for it was won by centuries of the most drastic discipline, and there is nothing to take its place.†   (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)
  • If she wants to start afresh I have only too obvious reasons for not hindering her.†   (source)
  • He was hindered from getting into it by his conviction that his life had been a good one.†   (source)
  • Ah, yes, you would have told me, in a way—but I hindered you, I remember!†   (source)
  • She had chronic bronchitis, and told him it hindered her in the exercise of her profession.†   (source)
  • An inward quivering hindered her articulation.†   (source)
  • 'You can pass through the door; no one hinders.'†   (source)
  • But at the end of the first hour she ran into rough prairie, hindering travel.†   (source)
  • "Mebbe I've kind of hindered somethin'—for a few moments, perhaps?" inquired the rider.†   (source)
  • There was a perceptible current out in the river, and it hindered straight advancement.†   (source)
  • Lake was wounded, hindering the swift flight necessary to escape deeper into the canyon.†   (source)
  • And the cactus further hindered progress.†   (source)
  • But Mr. Tulliver was not to be hindered of his retort.†   (source)
  • "You are positively hindering the inquiry....You're ruining the case...." he almost gasped.†   (source)
  • The lightning must, at the same time, have hindered and helped him.†   (source)
  • A new person is to me a great event, and hinders me from sleep.†   (source)
  • But I came back to tell you: there was no hindering it; you must know.†   (source)
  • 'There's no one in sight; no one hinders us.†   (source)
  • There was an interval between the races, and so nothing hindered conversation.†   (source)
  • What hinders me from smiting now
    Thee and thy monkey-sprites with fell disaster?†   (source)
  • You've been hindered from going to church to-day, doubtless.†   (source)
  • I wouldn't stand for it hindering myself; but you, Miss Newson—†   (source)
  • But he had religious scruples, which hindered the execution of such a plan.†   (source)
  • 'You shall forget my face completely, if you call that hindering you!' answered Vassily Ivanovitch.†   (source)
  • "What, what," he thought, "could hitherto have hindered her from putting an end to it?"†   (source)
  • I must tell you at once what I came about, else I shall be hindering you from taking your dinner.†   (source)
  • Am I hindering anyone?" she said, not surrendering at once.†   (source)
  • It is wicked to let people think evil of any one falsely, when it can be hindered.†   (source)
  • That makes the good and bad of manners, namely, what helps or hinders fellowship.†   (source)
  • "Oh, where is he?" said poor Maggie, with a flush and tremor that no presence could have hindered.†   (source)
  • Suppose it had been me and little Arthur, and Dodo had been hindered from coming to see me!†   (source)
  • Their impatience hindered things for a while.†   (source)
  • He was, as it were, stripping off the wrappings which hindered it from being distinctly seen.†   (source)
  • Brooke was really culpable; he ought to have hindered it.†   (source)
  • She spoke softly because the rapidity of her heart's beating hindered her breathing.†   (source)
  • —it hinders profane language, and attaches a man to the society of refined females.†   (source)
  • He lets you have your plans, only he hinders you from being taken in.†   (source)
  • But—deuce take it—this is what comes of men being fools—I'm hindered of my day's work.†   (source)
  • I came here today with anxious curiosity; I wished to see for myself and form my own convictions as to whether it were true that the whole of this upper stratum of Russian society is WORTHLESS, has outlived its time, has existed too long, and is only fit to die—and yet is dying with petty, spiteful warring against that which is destined to supersede it and take its place—hindering the Coming Men, and knowing not that itself is in a dying condition.†   (source)
  • But if that were the case, how could any combination of obstacles have hindered the flight of a man like Ethan Frome?†   (source)
  • When there were enough Americans on the platform the first impression of their immaculacy and their money began to fade into a vague racial dusk that hindered and blinded both them and their observers.†   (source)
  • The darkness of the forest hindered him, but he came at length to the edge of the aspen thicket; he penetrated it, and guided toward Bolly by a suspicious stamp and neigh, he found her and quieted her with a word.†   (source)
  • Nobody's hindering.†   (source)
  • Ernest Poole and Dorothy Canfield try but they're hindered by their absolute lack of any sense of humor; but at least they crowd their work instead of spreading it thin.†   (source)
  • This was not because of laziness or deceit, which were the only things that might have hindered the lawyer in preparing it, but because he did not know what the charge was or even what consequences it might bring, so that he had to remember every tiny action and event from the whole of his life, looking at them from all sides and checking and reconsidering them.†   (source)
  • I see dim,—this mask hinders me!†   (source)
  • In spite of the bad weather, and of the wind which especially hindered me, I was on deck from daylight till dark and making substantial progress.†   (source)
  • But as soon as I asked myself the question, and tried to discover some subjects to which I could impart a philosophical significance of infinite value, my mind would stop like a clock, I would see before me vacuity, nothing, would feel either that I was wholly devoid of talent, or that, perhaps, a malady of the brain was hindering its development.†   (source)
  • I had then, as you remember, just returned to London after a lot of Indian Ocean, Pacific, China Seas—a regular dose of the East—six years or so, and I was loafing about, hindering you fellows in your work and invading your homes, just as though I had got a heavenly mission to civilize you.†   (source)
  • Naught is such queenlike 1940
    For a woman to handle, though peerless she be,
    That a weaver of peace the life should waylay,
    For a shame that was lying, of a lief man of men;
    But the kinsman of Hemming, he hinder'd it surely.†   (source)
  • His power was the greater because he was not hindered by scruples, by either the vice or the virtue of the older Puritan tradition.†   (source)
  • During the pause that ensued he surveyed me with indignation, while I made supernatural efforts of memory, in which I was hindered by the oriental voice within the court-room expostulating with impassioned volubility against a charge of falsehood.†   (source)
  • For Joachim tried hard to keep his eye squarely on October, although certain nodes in his central nervous system refused to obey humanistic norms and hindered a compensatory distribution of body warmth through the skin.†   (source)
  • Even in the better-ordered country districts of the South the free movement of agricultural laborers is hindered by the migration-agent laws.†   (source)
  • Chapter 6 Jurgis and Ona were very much in love; they had waited a long time—it was now well into the second year, and Jurgis judged everything by the criterion of its helping or hindering their union.†   (source)
  • Hot steaming rains fell frequently, making the grass where the cows fed yet more rank, and hindering the late hay-making in the other meads.†   (source)
  • Only one thing hindered him upon beginning, though it in no wise checked his delight, and that in the multiplicity of tasks planned to make a paradise out of the valley he could not choose the one with which to begin.†   (source)
  • There did not seem to be brains enough in the entire nursery, so to speak, to bait a fish-hook with; but you didn't seem to mind that, after a little, because you soon saw that brains were not needed in a society like that, and indeed would have marred it, hindered it, spoiled its symmetry—perhaps rendered its existence impossible.†   (source)
  • The same delicacy, pride, false shame, whatever it may be called, on Clare's account, which had led her to hide from her own parents the prolongation of the estrangement, hindered her owning to his that she was in want after the fair allowance he had left her.†   (source)
  • Somehow she hinders me!†   (source)
  • The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do.†   (source)
  • I assure you that all that is seriously hindering my recovery, because it's continually irritating me.†   (source)
  • I meant to take them over to John Saunders the first thing I did, but something or other hindered me all the morning; first one thing, then another, there is no saying what, you know.†   (source)
  • In compliance with a whim of Clifford, as it troubled him to see them in confinement, they had been set at liberty, and now roamed at will about the garden; doing some little mischief, but hindered from escape by buildings on three sides, and the difficult peaks of a wooden fence on the other.†   (source)
  • The master directed me to follow; I did, to her chamber-door: she hindered me from going further by securing it against me.†   (source)
  • But I ha' my reasons — mine, yo see — for being hindered; not on'y now, but awlus — awlus — life long!'†   (source)
  • His luckless victim was the mother of a tiny little monkey, which, being on her back when the dog flew at her, had hindered her flight; the little creature attempted to hide among the grass, and in trembling fear watched the tragic fate of its mother.†   (source)
  • Through growing drowse he heard the names of devils—of Zulbazan, Son of Eblis, who lives in bazars and paraos, making all the sudden lewd wickedness of wayside halts; of Dulhan, invisible about mosques, the dweller among the slippers of the faithful, who hinders folk from their prayers; and Musboot, Lord of lies and panic.†   (source)
  • off fate and destiny for once, and build the prettiest house we could compass here—and so—and so—" Here she lapsed into mere carving, but the tall foreman came up and said: "Yes, neighbours, that is it: so it is going to be all ashlar because we want to carve a kind of a wreath of flowers and figures all round it; and we have been much hindered by one thing or other—Philippa's illness amongst others,—and though we could have managed our wreath without her—"†   (source)
  • The consequence is that in Europe political tribunals are invested with rights which they are afraid to use, and that the fear of punishing too much hinders them from punishing at all.†   (source)
  • And now you have hindered my escape.†   (source)
  • well, what hinders your sleeping?†   (source)
  • Why are you hindering us?†   (source)
  • "I say, captain," said the sailor who had cried "Courage!" to Dantes, "if what he says is true, what hinders his staying with us?"†   (source)
  • "Tell me," replied Faria, "what has hindered you from knocking down your jailer with a piece of wood torn from your bedstead, dressing yourself in his clothes, and endeavoring to escape?"†   (source)
  • The money was taken in the night last past, and no man was with our departed brother but you, for William Dane declares to us that he was hindered by sudden sickness from going to take his place as usual, and you yourself said that he had not come; and, moreover, you neglected the dead body.†   (source)
  • We hindered and repressed a great deal of cruelty, and congratulated ourselves on doing a vast deal of good, till, as often happens, my zeal overacted.†   (source)
  • The work was not heavy, but it had been much hindered on account of the frequent pauses necessitated by exclamations of surprise at the event, of which the good woman had been briefly informed by letter a few hours earlier.†   (source)
  • At one minute he stretched out his hand to support the head of the coffin and only hindered the bearers, at another he ran alongside and tried to find a place for himself there.†   (source)
  • My purpose in going to Walden Pond was not to live cheaply nor to live dearly there, but to transact some private business with the fewest obstacles; to be hindered from accomplishing which for want of a little common sense, a little enterprise and business talent, appeared not so sad as foolish.†   (source)
  • The people is therefore the real directing power; and although the form of government is representative, it is evident that the opinions, the prejudices, the interests, and even the passions of the community are hindered by no durable obstacles from exercising a perpetual influence on society.†   (source)
  • As her once elastic walk had become deadened by time, so had her natural pride of life been hindered in its blooming by her necessities.†   (source)
  • All sorts of obstacles hindered this operation, some peculiar to the soil, others inherent in the very prejudices of the laborious population of Paris.†   (source)
  • I'd warn you when I came, and then you might let me in unobserved, as soon as she was alone, and watch till I departed, your conscience quite calm: you would be hindering mischief.'†   (source)
  • He just pressed her hand, and said, with a look and tone that were almost chilling to her, "I have been hindering you; I must not keep you any longer now.†   (source)
  • Nothing hindered me from eating heartily, and I experienced a certain sense of satisfaction and superiority, as, at intervals, I cast a look towards my silent companions, and felt the comfort of a quiet conscience within me.†   (source)
  • The idea is simple, but unhappily it has been a long time reaching us, being hindered by idealism and sentimentality.†   (source)
  • Who hindered his coming to the house?†   (source)
  • 'I must apologise for hindering you in your scientific pursuits,' he began, seating himself on a chair in the window, and leaning with both hands on a handsome walking-stick with an ivory knob (he usually walked without a stick), 'but I am constrained to beg you to spare me five minutes of your time ...no more.'†   (source)
  • [165] He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness†   (source)
  • If a stoppage occurs in a thoroughfare, and the circulation of the public is hindered, the neighbors immediately constitute a deliberative body; and this extemporaneous assembly gives rise to an executive power which remedies the inconvenience before anybody has thought of recurring to an authority superior to that of the persons immediately concerned.†   (source)
  • "Father Zossima has talked of that more than once," observed Alyosha; "he, too, said that the face of a man often hinders many people not practiced in love, from loving him.†   (source)
  • The window, being screened from general observation by the bushes, had been left unblinded, so that a person in this private nook could see all that was going on within the room which contained the wedding-guests, except in so far as vision was hindered by the green antiquity of the panes.†   (source)
  • [233] Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors, and recites fables merely of his brother's, or his brother's brother's God†   (source)
  • His severe illness had hindered all preparations for his removal thither; but it had become necessary that he should go and overlook its contents, as administrator to his mother's little property; for which purpose he decided to pass the next night on the premises.†   (source)
  • Do not say, "Sin is mighty, wickedness is mighty, evil environment is mighty, and we are lonely and helpless, and evil environment is wearing us away and hindering our good work from being done."†   (source)
  • Why, with only looking into what went on in the mill" I found out how there was a waste of five hundred a-year that might be hindered.†   (source)
  • The whole expression of his face told her that he had not forgotten the morning's talk, that his decision remained in force, and only the presence of visitors hindered his speaking of it to her now.†   (source)
  • We are to see that which man was tending to do in a given period, and was hindered, or, if you will, modified in doing, by the interfering volitions of Phidias, of Dante, of Shakespeare, the organ whereby man at the moment wrought.†   (source)
  • "I'm not hindering them, pani," said the Pole in the wig, with a long look at Grushenka, and relapsing into dignified silence he sucked his pipe again.†   (source)
  • Besides this feeling which absorbed her altogether and hindered her from following the details of her husband's plans, thoughts that had no connection with what he was saying flitted through her mind.†   (source)
  • But it's hindering—my not being well—go and tell 'em to get the horse in the gig, Luke; I can get down to St. Ogg's well enough—Gore's expecting me.†   (source)
  • Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated by the mountain winds, shined upon by all the stars of God, find the earth below not in unison with these, but are hindered from action by the disgust which the principles on which business is managed inspire, and turn drudges, or die of disgust, some of them suicides.†   (source)
  • Napoleon did not notice that in regard to his army he was playing the part of a doctor who hinders by his medicines—a role he so justly understood and condemned.†   (source)
  • "I tell you what you might try," he said more than once; "go to so-and-so and so-and-so," and the solicitor drew up a regular plan for getting round the fatal point that hindered everything.†   (source)
  • As time went on, and he saw himself more and more often held fast in these snares, he had an ever growing desire, not so much to escape from them, as to try whether they hindered his freedom.†   (source)
  • The man who does not understand the construction of the machine cannot conceive that the small connecting cogwheel which revolves quietly is one of the most essential parts of the machine, and not the shaving which merely harms and hinders the working.†   (source)
  • Now when he was not hindering her, she knew what to do, and without looking at what was under her feet, and to her vexation stumbling over a high stump into the water, but righting herself with her strong, supple legs, she began making the circle which was to make all clear to her.†   (source)
  • The explanation of this strange fact given by Russian military historians (to the effect that Kutuzov hindered an attack) is unfounded, for we know that he could not restrain the troops from attacking at Vyazma and Tarutino.†   (source)
  • This was not what he had intended; but other schemes would not be hindered: they would simply adjust themselves anew.†   (source)
  • Levin was vexed both at being hindered from shooting and at his horses getting stuck in the mud, and still more at the fact that neither Stepan Arkadyevitch nor Veslovsky helped him and the coachman to unharness the horses and get them out, since neither of them had the slightest notion of harnessing.†   (source)
  • Love hinders death.†   (source)
  • I should have been travelling out of my brief to have hindered it, let Mrs. Cadwallader say what she will.†   (source)
  • Everything: a carriage passing rapidly in the street, a summons to dinner, the maid's inquiry what dress to prepare, or worse still any word of insincere or feeble sympathy, seemed an insult, painfully irritated the wound, interrupting that necessary quiet in which they both tried to listen to the stern and dreadful choir that still resounded in their imagination, and hindered their gazing into those mysterious limitless vistas that for an instant had opened out before them.†   (source)
  • If Cadwallader—if every one else had regarded the affair as he, Sir James, had done, the marriage might have been hindered.†   (source)
  • And even had he not been hindered by anything on the way, his intention could not now have been carried out, for Napoleon had passed the Arbat more than four hours previously on his way from the Dorogomilov suburb to the Kremlin, and was now sitting in a very gloomy frame of mind in a royal study in the Kremlin, giving detailed and exact orders as to measures to be taken immediately to extinguish the fire, to prevent looting, and to reassure the inhabitants.†   (source)
  • "Oh, very well; this confounded rain has hindered me from sketching," said Will, feeling so happy that he affected indifference with delightful ease.†   (source)
  • What Mr. Vincy thought confusedly was, that the fever might somehow have been hindered if Wrench had shown the proper solicitude about his—the Mayor's—family.†   (source)
  • No one hindered him.†   (source)
  • Postulating some generalization as the goal of the movement of humanity, the historians study the men of whom the greatest number of monuments have remained: kings, ministers, generals, authors, reformers, popes, and journalists, to the extent to which in their opinion these persons have promoted or hindered that abstraction.†   (source)
  • Mr. Casaubon had taken a cruelly effective means of hindering her: even with indignation against him in her heart, any act that seemed a triumphant eluding of his purpose revolted her.†   (source)
  • One day that she had an opportunity she could not resist describing the kitchen scene to Fred, who would not be hindered from immediately going to see it, affecting simply to pass through.†   (source)
  • He had long been thinking of entering the army and would have done so had he not been hindered, first, by his membership of the Society of Freemasons to which he was bound by oath and which preached perpetual peace and the abolition of war, and secondly, by the fact that when he saw the great mass of Muscovites who had donned uniform and were talking patriotism, he somehow felt ashamed to take the step.†   (source)
  • She looked as if there were a spell upon her, keeping her motionless and hindering her from unclasping her hands, while some intense, grave yearning was imprisoned within her eyes.†   (source)
  • She trusted to the chance that nothing more would pass between her husband and the auctioneer until some issue should have justified her interference; at any rate, she had hindered the event which she immediately dreaded.†   (source)
  • Although her duplicity in the affair of the house had exceeded what he knew, and had really hindered the Plymdales from knowing of it, she had no consciousness that her action could rightly be called false.†   (source)
  • Mr. Garth told me what happened on the night of Featherstone's death—how you refused to burn the will; and he said that you had some heart-prickings on that subject, because you had been the innocent means of hindering Fred from getting his ten thousand pounds.†   (source)
  • He could say that to me, because he knows that I had much trial in my marriage, from my husband's illness, which hindered his plans and saddened him; and he knows that I have felt how hard it is to walk always in fear of hurting another who is tied to us.†   (source)
  • But, my dear Rosamond, as a question of pride, which I feel just as much as you can, it is surely better to manage the thing ourselves, and let the servants see as little of it as possible; and since you are my wife, there is no hindering your share in my disgraces—if there were disgraces.†   (source)
  • And she wrote what she considered the most judicious letter possible—one which would strike Sir Godwin as a proof of her excellent sense—pointing out how desirable it was that Tertius should quit such a place as Middlemarch for one more fitted to his talents, how the unpleasant character of the inhabitants had hindered his professional success, and how in consequence he was in money difficulties, from which it would require a thousand pounds thoroughly to extricate him.†   (source)
  • Another mile would bring them to Stone Court, and at the end of the first half, the house was already visible, looking as if it had been arrested in its growth toward a stone mansion by an unexpected budding of farm-buildings on its left flank, which had hindered it from becoming anything more than the substantial dwelling of a gentleman farmer.†   (source)
  • Though, in deference to her masculine advisers, she had refrained from what Sir James had called "interfering in this Bulstrode business," the hardship of Lydgate's position was continually in her mind, and when Bulstrode applied to her again about the hospital, she felt that the opportunity was come to her which she had been hindered from hastening.†   (source)
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