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His old indifference to life seemed to slip away like a useless and impeding garment, leaving him free for action.
I felt nothing; yet dreaded to move a step, lest I should be impeded by the walls of a tomb.
They were frantic with delight, only regretting that so many "Yankees" had escaped, and seriously impeded our movements.
This is why we must forgive: that so we may burst the bonds which impede our free movement, our ascent.
The affairs of Greece require energy, and that remedy be at once applied to whatever impedes the progress of affairs.
The eager crowd pressing forward could with difficulty be restrained from impeding the men working at the gin.
They cannot be wholly suppressed nor even very much reduced or impeded if society is to progress or even exist.
The French, on their part, sought by attacks and raids to impede the preparations for the coming assault.
It would drive his mother into a state of hysterical fear that could not fail to seriously impede his investigations.
The weather was favorable and the country rather level, so there was nothing to impede his rapid progress.
His real reason was a desire to settle a score with Captain Joe by impeding the progress of the work.
When the rim was bent it pressed against the works and impeded the proper action of the currents.
The use of trade acceptances, therefore, not only does not impede but tends to increase the banking facilities of merchants.
The country was, however, unsuitable for short decisive strokes, owing to the many steep hills which impeded movement.
That if its action is impeded, the kidneys and intestines are thereby given a greater amount of work to perform.
Fog subsequently impeded the party, and again and again Amundsen blessed the assistance that they received from ski.
Hume, to explain to this gentleman what are the consequences of impeding the police in the execution of their duty.
Every kind of concealment, even of an artificial nature, offers advantages, because the observation of the enemy is thereby impeded.
I have further, where occasion afforded, taken care to remove the prejudices, which might impede the comprehension of my demonstrations.
Set speeches were introduced bodily into the text of a play, although they impeded the progress of the action.
All the stones that were impeding the course of the water they were carefully picking out and carting away.
The weak, the sick, had to be left behind; nothing was suffered to impede the rapidity of their flight.
Moreover, he realized that, without a closer connection with Sloane, his own handling of the case was seriously impeded.
The intense cold numbed the racing men, cutting off their breath and impeding their efforts for speed.
Impeded by the rocks, the flood hesitated and even ran back, as if reluctant to take the final plunge!
I promise not to appear against my wife in her suit for divorce, or in any way to impede its progress.
When Keats, full of admiration, imitates Leigh Hunt, he is not very heavily impeded in his search for Keats.
The House of Commons definitely shook itself free from the active corruption which had so long impeded its movements.
Unfortunately his habits of life seriously impeded the good results that could have flowed from such a prolific source.
As the earth rotates between these two tides, they act as a break which serves to impede its motion.
A great massacre of the nobles, whose heavy armor impeded their movements, took place, and flight soon became general.
The popular impression was that Morgan killed him, so that he might not impede his flight or give information.
I found the road much better; it appeared to me as if most of the impeding stones had been cleared away.
The gradually formed adhesions in the pelvis impede the motion of the pelvic intestines and may cause intestinal obstruction.
Cried he, gasping for breath; for a strange feeling that he could not define, seemed to impede his respiration.
This result is favored if the operator runs forward so as not to impede or limit the action of the wing.
Then he moved his body in every direction, from position to position, probable or improbable, and was not impeded.
The crowd was now so immense that even the progress of the Aboriginal Inhabitant was for a moment impeded.
The descent they found easy and rapid; the lava now assisting, as much as it had formerly impeded them.
In the level ground near the creek the grass was five to nine feet high, and greatly impeded our horses.
If you do not, you will be unfortunate, you will fail in all things, you will be hindered, you will be impeded.
The executive is less powerful in the second chamber, which may consequently operate to impede minor instances of parliamentary tyranny.
Astor to have arrived for the revival of his favorite enterprise, but new difficulties had grown up to impede it.
There was nothing to impede her progress, for the fort was as silent as though it had ceased to exist.
Her short, green cloth skirt did not impede her movements, and high, stout shoes gave her firm footing.
It was above their knees, and, filling their rubber boots, made them so heavy as to greatly impede their progress.
He afterwards encountered a large fleet of Portuguese, who, attempting to impede his progress, he sank some and captured others.
The enemy attempted to impede the march, but was driven off, with a loss of five wounded to De Bray.
Henry stretched out his wrists and rubbed them, one after the other, until the impeded circulation was restored.
She would only impede our progress, as we wish to acquire a tremendous velocity just as soon as we leave the atmosphere.
Steer as she might toward any promising harbor, always she seemed to be aware of some subtle resistance impeding her.
In the mature man also, anger adds some force to the kick he gives even inanimate objects unexpectedly impeding him.
Nothing could, therefore, be effected to impede the progress of wickedness and calamity, but by some temporary measure of severity.
I can be of no service to you: on the contrary, I shall only be in the way, and impede your operations.
I expressed a regret that my ignorance of the language would impede me in thoroughly understanding what was being taught.
The enemy fled, and our passage was impeded only by the difficulty of dragging ourselves through the mud.
Nature had done her best to impede the progress of the road by thrusting mountains and valleys across its route.
They impeded his progress, but did not attempt to seize him, that honor being reserved for their chief.
Just beyond, the gang evidently had dispersed, each one for himself, leaving behind everything that impeded their progress.
It is, itself, in a slight depression of the ground, but not so much as to impede a free circulation of air.
In the old, the power of repair is impaired; in the young, the developing faculties are impeded in their progress.
Translation of a feast may mean the removal of a feast from an impeded day to a day which is free.
When thrust aside they showed no resentment, but after a minute drew near again and impeded us as badly as ever.
Not only was our intercourse with the outer world sadly impeded, but our internal communication was likewise seriously disturbed.
While swimming forward it trailed behind, and although it impeded my way, I did not feel half its weight.
The obstacles which impeded the progress of the scheme were gradually overcome by the energy of the archduke Maximilian.
Those who merely wish to walk through, content with a hasty glance, will find little to impede their movements.
Although her wide dress, falling down in many folds, impeded her movements, she sat quite firmly in the saddle.
And, let me tell you had they done so, they would have considerably impeded her progress the following day.
Their position in the air is thus perpendicular, and as they mutually impede each other, they are more fluttering than flying.
It must not be impeded by those who put their own selfish interests above the interests of the nation.
In winter, travelling is not often impeded by great falls of snow; though heavy and severe snow storms occur.
These fruit bend the branches with their weight, and so tend to impede the growth of the parent tree.
It was not for several minutes that he realized the loss of his glasses had not impeded his vision.
The car was once more under way; fortunately their progress overhead would not be impeded by a press of vehicles.
The decisions of this court are already doing much to solve difficulties that impede the successful operation of the constitution.
Before he had extracted all the contents of the bag she was back again, once more clinging, clutching, and impeding.
They could not hurry much for the heavy suits and the resistance of the water impeded their progress.
The season was indeed in some respects their friend, since it necessarily impeded the movements of Argyle's army against them.
These various obstacles and difficulties, which impede thorough work for the elevation of our worst classes, can, however, be overcome.
He gathers no flocks, which would impede his movements, and only accepts the help of dogs as wild as himself.
He may now be honest, or tending to honesty, and my interference may cast him backward, or impede his progress.
There was nothing that could impede my sense of freedom; no one would make my decisions or steal my time.
Onwards we dashed at an increased pace, men and horses tumbling dead at every bound, thus sadly impeding our progress.
That marriage must be performed: I have sworn it, and it shall be, whatever may be said or done to impede it.
Kronecker concludes that mountain sickness is caused by a congestion of the lungs, impeding the flow of blood through them.
Because density is increasing here, vertical motion is reduced, and exchanges between the surface and the deep waters are impeded.
We passed over a good deal of snow, the remnant of the winter, yet nothing sufficiently bad to impede us at all.
As Sir Everard and the others advanced she drew aside, not without dignity, so as not to impede their going.
It was a rapid succession of overthrows, with some failures, but none that for a moment impeded the grand result.
If the ski is quite flat, it will bend downwards in soft snow under the weight and impede the going.
What tended to impede its progress was, that it could not be well applied to the older portions of society.
Navigation is impeded by reason of fearful rapids, every few miles of the first five hundred after leaving the lake.
Then, too, something cord-like, weaving together the bushes on either side of my path, for a moment impeded my progress.
As yet the windows were not in, and there was nothing to impede her view of the large, empty wards.
No, the gate was not locked, and there was not a creature within sight to observe or impede her movements.
Does the breath pass freely through the mouth or is it impeded at some point and, if so, in what manner?
And when we have this new will resting in the true enlightenment of the people, we shall have no impeded action.
Again, the dialogue in the dramatic parts is natural, well-conducted, characteristic, and so used as to help, not impede, the narrative.
My writing is impeded both by the recollection of my own disasters, and by my alarm about my brother.