Impediments
[ɪm'pedɪmənts]
Examples
- They insinuated themselves into the substances about them, and the impediments to their progress yielded at their touch. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The inquest was the first of the impediments in the way of my freedom of action. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He had two selves within him apparently, and they must learn to accommodate each other and bear reciprocal impediments. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Impediments, raised by others, had, years ago, come in the way of our intercourse, and cut it off. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
Editor: William