Hindered

Examples

• Where has it helped them, where hindered? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• As her once elastic walk had become deadened by time, so had her natural pride of life been hindered in its blooming by her necessities. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• He himself was hindered from drinking the water. Plato. The Republic.
• Nothing but an extreme love of truth could have hindered me from concealing this part of my story. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• In speaking of Edison's method of experimenting, another of his laboratory staff says: He is never hindered by theory, but resorts to actual experiment for proof. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This was not what he had intended; but other schemes would not be hindered: they would simply adjust themselves anew. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But I ha' my reasons—mine, yo see—for being hindered; not on'y now, but awlus—awlus—life long! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Suppose it had been me and little Arthur, and Dodo had been hindered from coming to see me! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• We have been hindered with bad weather, yet our fort is in a good defensible condition, and we have every day more convenient living. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Nay, he even hindered the raising of money for that expedition, so that Scipio was obliged to find the supplies as he could. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And now you have hindered my escape. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• It is wicked to let people think evil of any one falsely, when it can be hindered. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Motion is thus hindered, and the effective value of the acting force is lessened. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• If Cadwallader--if every one else had regarded the affair as he, Sir James, had done, the marriage might have been hindered. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Hindered by political conditions, the process becomes secretive and morbid. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Secretion, digestion, absorption of food, and the removal of waste matters are hindered. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Brooke was really culpable; he ought to have hindered it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But--deuce take it--this is what comes of men being fools--I'm hindered of my day's work. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Napoleon seems rather to have hindered than helped its deliberations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Oh, very well; this confounded rain has hindered me from sketching, said Will, feeling so happy that he affected indifference with delightful ease. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I should have been travelling out of my brief to have hindered it, let Mrs. Cadwallader say what she will. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• There stood a clock in the classe below: what hindered me from venturing down to consult it? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.

Edited by Guthrie