Thwarted

Examples

• It made her blood run sharp, to be thwarted in even so trifling a matter. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It sent her into a strange, convulsed anger, to be thwarted. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Napoleon, thwarted of a Russian princess, snubbed indeed by Alexander, turned to Austria, and married the arch-duchess Marie Louise. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I am thwarted in every thing material. Jane Austen. Emma.
• When we are thwarted we begin to ask why. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• If he overheard our plans to rescue Dejah Thoris, it will mean civil war, for he will attempt to thwart us, and in that I will not be thwarted. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• And so without waiting to be again discovered and thwarted, I ran quickly up the short, steep incline and pushed open the doorway at its end. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• This thwarted her, and contravened her, for the moment. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• His measures were thwarted, and his schemes interrupted by this new state of things. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I have not thwarted your plans, because, as far as I can see, they are innocent, but if you induce Maurice to go to the Levant— Well? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• It makes me very nervous and poorly, to be thwarted so in my own family, and to have neighbours who think of themselves before anybody else. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• What awful fate hovered over me, that I should have been so terribly thwarted at every angle of my search for my lost love! Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• He had meant everything to turn out differently; and others had thrust themselves into his life and thwarted his purposes. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• They are discouraged, or complain of being thwarted in their good purpose by a hard fate, and shift to some other line of action. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

Edited by Jason