Blocked

Examples

• First he had the entrances to the streets blocked off with carts as though to organize the plaze for a _capea_. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• It is then proofed and blocked. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I was almost in consternation, so little had I expected any guest from the blocked-up vale that night. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Its streets were blocked up with snow--the few passengers seemed palsied, and frozen by the ungenial visitation of winter. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Several of the back windows on the staircase had been darkened or wholly blocked up. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Many scores of carriages, with blazing lamps, blocked up the street, to the disgust of No. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Shut my eyes as I would, these last words of his succeeded in making the way, which had seemed blocked up, comparatively clear. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The beginning of mutual understanding and resolve seemed as far off as ever; nay, it seemed blocked out by the sense of unsuccessful effort. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• If they can gain the interior of the island by an open way, they certainly won't try to pass in by a blocked one. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• It is not blocked up at all, Mr. Elliston, answered the constable, it's nothing in the world but the coachman as is so drunk, he can't sit on his box. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• If its expression is unduly blocked, inclination shows itself in uneasiness and intense craving. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• One day this drier got blocked, and the ore would not run down. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• For if he does not look ahead, he is more likely to find himself blocked. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• He blocked the doubtful balls, missed the bad ones, took the good ones, and sent them flying to all parts of the field. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• In one of these wings the windows were broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly caved in, a picture of ruin. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• How far we traversed the tunnel in this manner I do not know, but presently we came to an obstruction which blocked our further progress. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• There were two windows in the roof, one was blocked with boards, the other was a narrow dormer window on the north side. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• I suspect it may have been because nothing had a place of its own, except Jip's pagoda, which invariably blocked up the main thoroughfare. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Thus often, pushing my way with difficulty through the narrow snow-blocked town, I crossed the bridge and passed through Eton. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Massive bars blocked our further progress, but beyond I saw her--my incomparable Princess, and with her were Thuvia and Phaidor. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.

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