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He was a little, pale fellow, with only one arm, and he had an impediment in his speech.
Richard himself was the chief impediment.
Designs are, therefore, formed without debate, and executed without impediment.
And the fewer the impediments in the march after happiness and truth the better.
The first great impediment was the important city of Troyes, which was well garrisoned.
For this reason where our study (purpose) is, there alone is the impediment.
Disease is an impediment to the body, but not to the will, unless the will itself chooses.
Space proved to be no impediment to her vision.
An impediment in his speech would make him a perfect Demosthenes.
He was, however, stopped by an unexpected and fearful impediment.
There is an impediment, and a serious one.
Wood may be cut close to the beach, and embarked without impediment.
He stumbled upon some slight impediment under foot.
Neither storms nor other impediments deterred him from his work.
"If anyone knows any just cause or impediment," he continued.
We were about to rise, wash, and depart, but an impediment is offered by the artist.
The count was unmarried, and was the only impediment between me and the family estates.
Let the laws he purged of every barbarous remainder, every barbarous impediment to women.
There must have been some great impediment.
A serious impediment in his speech prevented him from entering public life.
They are an impediment to the drainage of the city and seriously impair its health.
There was no plain ground within sight; but no impediment could be attended to.
Even the impediment in his speech seems to have been one of the conditions of his genius.
If he liked his daughter, said he, there was no impediment that he could see.
Had it not been for this impediment, I verily believe he would have beaten us altogether.
Horned snakes were the greatest impediments to more abundant hunting.
It sweeps away all impediments to the catastrophe, making it swift, inevitable and dire.
I doubt, however, if you will be able to find cause or just impediment, etc.
Take all unnecessary impediments out of its way.
The expense need not be any impediment.
Can any man here show cause or just impediment why this marriage should not take place?
This was the cause of great loss, and an impediment to commerce and plenty.
To the latter, purely intellectual growth is often more an impediment than a help.
He is to be my husband, but just and proper impediments have hitherto prevented our union.
Crossed by no light impediment, my Queen.
What do we mean by impediments to marriage?
The size of the unions was a great impediment to the working of the poor law.
My comrades were no impediment to that, I can tell you.
The distance of three or four hundred miles forms no impediment to the journey.
She was always spokeswoman, for Mike had an impediment in his speech.
What impediments do they not throw in the way of their own utility?
I know not what impediment this complaint may be to the flight of my master.
I was stopped there by a momentary impediment of the breath.
He had an impediment in his speech also.
I know Jacobs's wife had an impediment in her speech.
Burdened with these impediments, she required assistance.
It is said to be an impediment to great enterprises.
Then climate is a great impediment to idle persons.
There was only one impediment to the people's worship of the dead king.
And now there is not an impediment.
As for me, I never found so great impediment within.
The first impediment is to see a man having no beard, and a woman to have a beard.
At dinner Jane was the only one of the three of us without an impediment in her silence.
As an impediment in the success of her ambition she never considered him.
If there be any impediment, I pray you discover it.
"Such impediments as are placed in the path of progress!"
Adams would not throw any impediment in their way.
Surely that could not be an impediment.
The impediments which then existed were removed.
One impediment it was found peculiarly difficult to remove.
The credit system, too, was an impediment to his financial advance.
The gaseous mixture offers no measurable impediment to the rays of heat.
Probably there were impediments of both kinds.
I never knew you to let a slight impediment stand in the way of a friendly action.
"I should think she was a great impediment to Washington."
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments.
Compose a sentence containing the word "impediment."
Editor how this explicit course would remove the ordinary impediments on both sides.
What they call an impediment has arisen.
Isabel inquired if the same impediments did not still exist.
It is free of these impediments if he shall have been waiting alone in the room.
"There may be the greatest of all impediments, my dear."
You may have many impediments in the accomplishment of your pursuits.
What eternal and necessary impediment prevents?
No impediment is offered to the flow of water and disastrous results follow.
It will turn off at every switch, and fly off at every turn or impediment.
For such a fast runner there were no impediments.
Friedrich's Latin could never come to much, under these impediments.
Crying out to me to follow, he pushed on over all impediments.
Still the forlorn hope went on without meeting with any impediment.
Everywhere I was stopped by some impediment I could not remove.
Some appeared, as they rolled on meeting with no impediment, to be much higher.
The huge brute would break through all impediments to reach his victim.
On discovering the impediment in their way, their shouts and threats increased in fury.
How am I to free myself from the impediments which you make for me?
That can be no impediment to my release: you do not think me one.
Once or twice he came to a good-sized lake where all impediments vanished.
The parlor was on a level with the hall, and she greeted him without impediment.
Impediment to making Domestic Economy a Study at School.
"Do you see any just cause or impediment?"
I saw cause or impediment why I should not marry him.
Their very existence is itself an impediment.
There are serious impediments in his pumping gestures.
In replying the slight impediment in his speech became more pronounced.
His head was bent close to the lock, in which there appeared to be some impediment.
Let me assure you there will be no impediments on the side of my family.
Would you raise up a greater impediment?
She spoke of the future when there might be no impediment to their happiness.
Away we went, allowing no ordinary impediments to hinder us.
The fences and ditches that lay in his way were no impediment.