Obstructed

Examples

• No individual, perhaps, ever possessed a juster understanding, or was so seldom obstructed in the use of it by indolence, enthusiasm, or authority. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The rebels had obstructed the navigation of Yazoo Pass and the Coldwater by felling trees into them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It is the labour of artificers and manufacturers only of which the free circulation is obstructed by corporation laws. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• High above this to the right, and much nearer thitherward than the Quiet Woman Inn, the blurred contour of Rainbarrow obstructed the sky. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I was like a wild beast that had broken the toils; destroying the objects that obstructed me, and ranging through the wood with a stag-like swiftness. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I loved him well--too well not to smite out of my path even Jealousy herself, when she would have obstructed a kind farewell. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• They shivered in the emotional gale; they obstructed and the gale became destructive. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The country was a rolling prairie, and, from the higher ground, the vision was obstructed only by the earth's curvature. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Of blood, her cool veins conducted no flow; placid lymph filled and almost obstructed her arteries. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• To an observer whose view is not obstructed, any part of the earth presents itself as a circular and horizontal expanse, on the circumference of which the heavens appear to rest. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

Edited by Caleb