Obstacle

Examples

• It was as if the eager current of her being had been checked by a sudden obstacle which drove it back upon itself. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I should have tried Mr. Blake as well--but for one obstacle in the way. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• My star vanished as I drew near: some obstacle had intervened between me and it. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He lets no one stand in the way of such self-gratification; but whether you are an obstacle or not remains to be seen. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• I am not romantic fool enough to further the fortune, or avert the fate, of one who is likely to be a successful obstacle between me and my wishes. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• She saw this, and yet determined to win his love; the obstacle served the rather to excite her ambition. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• If it had been otherwise, he would have felt it as an obstacle in his progress to the object he had in view. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The machine obeyed the slightest motion of the helm; and, the wind blowing steadily, there was no let or obstacle to our course. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• In your hearing, I told the young lady that her leaving the house (as things were then) would put an obstacle in the way of my recovering her jewel. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I stumbled over an obstacle: my head was still dizzy, my sight was dim, and my limbs were feeble. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The ministry were resolved to remove so great an obstacle out of the way of their designs. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• And as for Osborne, when he was once bent on a thing, a fresh obstacle or two only rendered him the more resolute. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• You do not imagine that if I were the pursuer I should allow myself to be baffled by so slight an obstacle. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Most of the early telegraphic inventors encumbered their inventions with the same obstacle, as they seemed to consider it necessary to have a separate circuit for each letter of the alphabet. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• 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.

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