Hampered

Examples

• The lock's hampered. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It's big enough for a prison-door--it's been hampered over and over again, and it ought to be changed for a new one. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• That it is apt to be hampered by material necessities or complicated by moral scruples? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• It is a little too hard on me to expect that my course in life is to be hampered by prejudices which I think ridiculous. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Take care--experto crede--take care not to get hampered about money matters. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• For, as we have already stated, humanistic studies when set in opposition to study of nature are hampered. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Finally, the thought of the Greeks was hampered by a want of knowledge that is almost inconceivable to us to-day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He is very fond of Natural History and various scientific matters, and he is hampered in reconciling these tastes with his position. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He has hampered the lock. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• This, indeed, was the dread which had hitherto hampered every manufacturer and almost every public man in the district. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

Edited by Karl