All 14 Uses of
hinder
in
The Mill on the Floss
- One delicious grinding snip, and then another and another, and the hinder-locks fell heavily on the floor, and Maggie stood cropped in a jagged, uneven manner, but with a sense of clearness and freedom, as if she had emerged from a wood into the open plain.†
Chpt 1.7hinder = slowed down or caused problems for
- But Mr. Tulliver was not to be hindered of his retort.†
Chpt 1.7 *
- But forestalling his answer, she said,— "I suppose it's all astronomers; because, you know, they live up in high towers, and if the women came there they might talk and hinder them from looking at the stars."†
Chpt 2.1
- We can't hinder the country from knowing that.†
Chpt 3.3
- If my father shouldn't get well, I should be very unhappy to think anything had been done against his will that I could hinder.†
Chpt 3.3
- 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.†
Chpt 3.5
- "But, uncle," said Tom, earnestly, "I don't see why the Latin need hinder me from getting on in business.†
Chpt 3.5
- 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.†
Chpt 3.8hindering = slowing down or causing problems for
- Could he not hinder that, by persuading her out of her system of privation?†
Chpt 5.1hinder = slowed down or caused problems for
- You'll like enough be ta'en into partnership, as your uncle Deane was before you,—you're in the right way for't; and then there's nothing to hinder your getting rich.†
Chpt 5.6
- I must tell you at once what I came about, else I shall be hindering you from taking your dinner.†
Chpt 6.4hindering = slowing down or causing problems for
- There is nothing to hinder that now?†
Chpt 6.7hinder = slowed down or caused problems for
- Then there is nothing to hinder our being friends, Philip,—seeing each other and talking to each other while I am here; I shall soon go away again.†
Chpt 6.7
- "Oh, where is he?" said poor Maggie, with a flush and tremor that no presence could have hindered.†
Chpt 7.2
Definition:
slow down or cause problems for