Obstacles

Examples

• Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• But the greater the obstacles the greater Stephenson’s resources proved. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• As some species die out, forms better adapted to utilize the obstacles against which they struggled in vain come into being. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• His partner, however, became disheartened by the obstacles thrown in their way, and left this country for America before the success of the screw was established. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Among the obstacles in my way, there is the necessity of collecting again all the evidence which was discovered at the time, and more if possible. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Where an activity takes time, where many means and obstacles lie between its initiation and completion, deliberation and persistence are required. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Hooker found but slight obstacles in his way, and on the afternoon of the 28th emerged into Lookout valley at Wauhatchie. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He saw its possibilities, as well as the chief obstacles to be overcome--viz. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• They represent man’s attack upon the obstacles presented by nature to his irrepressible spirit of progress. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Interest means that one is identified with the objects which define the activity and which furnish the means and obstacles to its realization. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The principal applications of wireless telegraphy so far have been at sea, where the absence of intervening obstacles gives a free path to the electrical oscillations. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• She brought so much love, energy, and cheerfulness to the work that she could not but succeed, in spite of some obstacles. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• You have to find out what your resources are, what conditions are at command, and what the difficulties and obstacles are. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• As Mr. Blake foretold, Betteredge raised no further obstacles. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The interest and opposition of such favoured subjects, are the obstacles most likely to prevent this, or any other reformation of the same kind. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• No insuperable obstacles, given the intelligent will for its realization, stand in the way. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I see no prospect of the former, and there are many great, if not insuperable obstacles in the way of the latter. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• They show their real vitality by a relentless growth in spite of all the little fences and obstacles that foolish politicians devise. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It furnishes original stimuli; it supplies obstacles and resources. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• To advance along smooth and pleasant paths, to encounter no obstacles, to wrestle with no difficulties and hardships--such has absolutely no fascination to him. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The Mexicans were very kind to us, however, and threw no obstacles in the way of our landing except an occasional shot from their nearest fort. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Sand-dunes are composed of drift sand thrown up by the waves of the sea, and blown, when dry, to some distance inland, until it is stopped by large stones, tree roots or other obstacles. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Obstacles were a ripening sun to his love, and he was at this moment in a delirium of exquisite misery. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I would advise you to overcome great obstacles to accomplish this. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• And there are obstacles in the way: they must be hewn down. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• There are obstacles to be met, and we must meet, and crush them! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Our journey was impeded by a thousand obstacles. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The want of a better mode of discharging the gun than a lighted match was one of the chief obstacles to the introduction of the Revolver four centuries ago. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Am I severed from you by insuperable obstacles? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

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