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hinder
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Certainly such elements in the character of a marriageable girl tended to interfere with her lot, and hinder it from being decided according to custom, by good looks, vanity, and merely canine affection.†
Chpt 1

hinder = slowed down or caused problems for
Nothing could hinder it but her love of extremes, and her insistence on regulating life according to notions which might cause a wary man to hesitate before he made her an offer, or even might lead her at last to refuse all offers.†
Chpt 1
I would not hinder Casaubon; I said so at once; for there is no knowing how anything may turn out.†
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I should have been travelling out of my brief to have hindered it, let Mrs. Cadwallader say what she will.†
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Brooke was really culpable; he ought to have hindered it.†
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And I think when a girl is so young as Miss Brooke is, her friends ought to interfere a little to hinder her from doing anything foolish.†
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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.†
Chpt 1
And I should have thought—but I may be wrong—that there was no religion to hinder a man from believing the best of a young fellow, when you don't know worse.†
Chpt 2
"If you mean to hinder everybody from having money but saints and evangelists, you must give up some profitable partnerships, that's all I can say," Mr. Vincy burst out very bluntly.†
Chpt 2
Also, the high standard held up to the public mind by the College of which which gave its peculiar sanction to the expensive and highly rarefied medical instruction obtained by graduates of Oxford and Cambridge, did not hinder quackery from having an excellent time of it; for since professional practice chiefly consisted in giving a great many drugs, the public inferred that it might be better off with more drugs still, if they could only be got cheaply, and hence swallowed large cubic measures of physic prescribed by unscrupulous ignorance which had taken no degrees.†
Chpt 2
I must go and hinder him from jarring all your nerves," said Rosamond, moving to the other side of the room, where Fred having opened the piano, at his father's desire, that Rosamond might give them some music, was parenthetically performing "Cherry Ripe!" with one hand.†
Chpt 2
"I had a duty towards him," said Mr. Casaubon, laying his other hand on Dorothea's in conscientious acceptance of her caress, but with a glance which he could not hinder from being uneasy.†
Chpt 2
When she made remarks to this edifying effect, she had a firm little frown on her brow, which yet did not hinder her face from looking benevolent, and her words which came forth like a procession were uttered in a fervid agreeable contralto.†
Chpt 3
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.†
Chpt 3
If Cadwallader—if every one else had regarded the affair as he, Sir James, had done, the marriage might have been hindered.†
Chpt 3
I think it is one's function as a medical man to hinder regrets of that sort as far as possible.†
Chpt 3
But now it occurred to her that they should be put out of her husband's sight: whatever might have been the sources of his annoyance about them, he must, if possible, not be annoyed again; and she ran her eyes first over the letter addressed to him to assure herself whether or not it would be necessary to write in order to hinder the offensive visit.†
Chpt 3
A letter addressed to the Poste Restante in Paris within the fortnight would hinder him, if necessary, from arriving at an inconvenient moment.†
Chpt 3
Her most cheerful supposition was that her aunt Bulstrode had interfered in some way to hinder Lydgate's visits: everything was better than a spontaneous indifference in him.†
Chpt 3
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.†
Chpt 3
She had a good deal of disdain for Mrs. Vincy's evident alarm lest she and Fred should be alone together, but it did not hinder her from thinking anxiously of the way in which Fred would be affected, if it should turn out that his uncle had left him as poor as ever.†
Chpt 3
In the earlier half of the day there was business to hinder any formal communication of an adverse resolve; in the later there was dinner, wine, whist, and general satisfaction.†
Chpt 4
This was not what he had intended; but other schemes would not be hindered: they would simply adjust themselves anew.†
Chpt 4
"Oh, very well; this confounded rain has hindered me from sketching," said Will, feeling so happy that he affected indifference with delightful ease.†
Chpt 4
It is enough for me to point out to yourself that there are certain social fitnesses and proprieties which should hinder a somewhat near relative of mine from becoming any wise conspicuous in this vicinity in a status not only much beneath my own, but associated at best with the sciolism of literary or political adventurers.†
Chpt 4
Sir James Chettam could not look with any satisfaction on Mr. Brooke's new courses; but it was easier to object than to hinder.†
Chpt 4
Fred says frankly he is not fit for a clergyman, and I would do anything I could to hinder a man from the fatal step of choosing the wrong profession.†
Chpt 4
I call it improper pride to let fools' notions hinder you from doing a good action.†
Chpt 4
That I will hinder!†
Chpt 4
I utterly distrust his morals, and it is my duty to hinder to the utmost the fulfilment of his designs.†
Chpt 4
You cannot say that I have ever tried to hinder you from working.†
Chpt 5
But the consequence is, that the whole profession in Middlemarch have set themselves tooth and nail against the Hospital, and not only refuse to cooperate themselves, but try to blacken the whole affair and hinder subscriptions.†
Chpt 5
Still, if I believe that I can set going a better method of treatment—if I believe that I can pursue certain observations and inquiries which may be a lasting benefit to medical practice, I should be a base truckler if I allowed any consideration of personal comfort to hinder me.†
Chpt 5
"Nonsense!" argued Inclination, "it would be too monstrous for him to hinder me from going out to a pretty country church on a spring morning.†
Chpt 5
"I wish to God we could hinder Dorothea from knowing this," said Sir James Chettam, with a little frown on his brow, and an expression of intense disgust about his mouth.†
Chpt 5
I can hinder nothing.†
Chpt 5
As to gossip, you know, sending him away won't hinder gossip.†
Chpt 5
Well, it would have been worse if he had made the codicil to hinder her from marrying again at all, you know.†
Chpt 5
it was to hinder Mr. Ladislaw from wanting to marry you for your money
Chpt 5 *

hinder = slow down or cause problems
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.†
Chpt 5

hindering = slowing down or causing problems for
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.†
Chpt 5
What's to hinder 'em from cutting right and left if they begin?†
Chpt 6

hinder = slowed down or caused problems for
But—deuce take it—this is what comes of men being fools—I'm hindered of my day's work.†
Chpt 6
Now, my lads, you can't hinder the railroad: it will be made whether you like it or not.†
Chpt 6
She said hurriedly, "I am so glad," and then bent over her writing to hinder any one from noticing her face.†
Chpt 6
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.†
Chpt 6

hindering = slowing down or causing problems for
—it hinders profane language, and attaches a man to the society of refined females.†
Chpt 6

hinders = slows down or causes problems for
Bowyer couldn't afford it, and only wanted to hinder every other man from making a figure.†
Chpt 6

hinder = slowed down or caused problems for
On the contrary, he felt a cold certainty at his heart that Raffles—unless providence sent death to hinder him—would come back to Middlemarch before long.†
Chpt 6
But the mixture of anger in her agitation had vanished at the sight of him; she had been used, when they were face to face, always to feel confidence and the happy freedom which comes with mutual understanding, and how could other people's words hinder that effect on a sudden?†
Chpt 6

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(1) (hinder as in: hindered by)
slow down or cause problems for
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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