Sentence Examples:
It may be that our chief impediment or our chief ambition lies in one field rather than in the other.
He approached the table with much resolution, and his hand advanced half the distance without impediment.
His proceedings were neither direct nor at first apparently conducive to the interests of the empire, but the great cause was secretly advancing against all impediments.
I am for the end of the road, at least, and must say that I rejoice in being a native of a country in which as few impediments as possible exist to onward impulses.
There was abundance of water in the creek, and the rank growth of the grass on its immediate banks proved a great impediment to the horses.
And will he not pitch you overboard as a useless thing, an impediment only and bad example to the other sailors?
Has he not given to you what is your own free from hindrance and free from impediment, and what is not your own subject to hindrance and impediment?
Jones deemed it necessary to write to the General to inform him of the reflections which had thus been cast upon his honor, and of the impediments which he himself met in the business assigned to him.
If he does not get his fee, he will throw such impediments in the way, raise such obstacles, and fashion such delays, that he completely foils every effort to procure justice through a legal channel.
In this as in all other matters of public concern policy requires that as few impediments as possible should exist to the free operation of the public will.
I arrived without further impediment at the place from which I intended to sail, inquired for a vessel, which I found ready to put to sea in a few hours, and agreed with the captain for my passage.
At one moment I stumbled and fell over some unseen obstacle; at another I was turned back by an impediment I could not overcome.
It will be obvious, therefore, that a washer which fulfills the best conditions as far as regards the cleaning of the gas will be absolutely perfect if it does not present any impediment to its flow.
Our national politics no longer express the realities of the national life; they are a mere impediment in the speech of the community.
Their common object is art regarded as an independent function, and relieved from the bondage of technical impediments.
To the marriage of true souls there was no impediment, and he would admit none, in her being the wife of another.
There came over her a desire to see her mother, which she felt irresistible; she was resolved that no difficulty, no impediment, should prevent her instantly from throwing herself on her bosom.
For it is not common, indeed, it is so uncommon as to be almost impossible, that a man and woman between whom there stands no natural impediment can halt for very long in those shadowed ways.
At last, finding the thing impossible, they agreed to a compromise; and one of the actors promised to sing it on the morrow, as well as the trifling impediment of having no voice would permit him.
Mary did call, and found her with a young gentleman of short stature, who was devouring her with his eyes, but did not overflow in discourse, having a slight impediment in his speech.
The man was small, but his heart was not; he stuck to the woman like a man, and poured hot love into her ears, and almost lost the impediment in his speech.
The impediment offered by these blocks rendered it very difficult for our horses to pass, although the water was only from one to three feet deep.
Within the man there may be two defects or impediments, the one on the part of the Body, the other on the part of the Soul.
Then constantly, for the world's sake (all living things), destroying the impediments of ignorance and darkness, he shall give to all enduring light, the brightness of the sun of perfect wisdom.
Treading firm on water as on dry land, entering the earth as in the water, passing through walls of stone without impediment, from the right side and the left water and fire produced!
We crossed one or two eminences, but the carts met with no impediment in a journey of fifteen miles.
Both Field and the venerable doctor had a slight impediment in speech at the beginning of a sentence or in addressing anyone.
He described the whole country before us as abounding in good water and excellent grass; and he said that in the direction I was pursuing there was no impediment between me and the sea coast.
Whether I shall have the heart to enter, as I had proposed, on a new and more extensive field of historical labor, with these impediments, I cannot say.
While this occurs in both sexes, in men erection produces a mechanical impediment to any evacuation of the bladder.
And yet we ought to have done so, because we should have known that smooth surfaces without impediment to the runners often end in something of the kind.
A large part of the valley consists of low, fertile lands, through which the river winds with very few impediments to navigation.
We should all like to speak poetry at the moment when we truly live, and if we do not speak, it is because we have an impediment in our speech.
At the expiration of eight hours, our impediments in this respect had increased to such a degree as to stop our farther progress.
This was a fatal impediment, and one that had never occurred to me; yet the request was a reasonable one, even essential.
From my knowledge of the country, and other resources, he regarded my chances of escape as favorable, and his own presence as an impediment and a check.
Moore, in spite of the impediments that he puts in the way of his own effectiveness, is one of the most competent writers on painting that we have.
When persons make arrangements about getting married they should tell the priest every circumstance that they think might be an impediment.
Such things, however, happen very rarely, for the priest would discover the impediments in questioning the persons about to marry.
As I have already stated, in neither race is any other impediment considered than the first degree of kindred.
I sigh for the moment which will find me free of all impediments, and yet my soul has re-entered my body.
As the Quakers desire their visitors to be free, and to do as they please, so they do not fail to do the same themselves, never regarding such visitors as impediments in the way of their concerns.
The ground within was made hard and level, the loose stones and other impediments being carefully removed.
She knows that her father's anger and her mother's sorrow are broad impediments in her road to happiness.
Progress in this direction is bound to be slow for the studies are exceptionally complex and there are many impediments to be removed.
Rapidity of stroke, elimination of impediment (faulty hand or arm position and unnecessary upper arm action), is the aim of this exercise.
If any of you knows any impediment in the way of their marriage, you are bound to declare it.
A very good route brought us across this slight descent and stream; and from this point no further impediment of any consequence appeared to lie in our way.
This individual apparently met with some impediment to his further progress; for he had not proceeded many steps when he turned suddenly about, and darted up the passage in which Wood stood.
The heavy rains of this month interfere in a material degree with outdoor work, and are often a great impediment to the orderly management that should prevail.
He moved to the opposite side of the room, where there were fewer impediments in the shape of furniture.
This being granted, are you not bound to sweep from your path every impediment that prevents your arm from reaching these hearts?
If the animal is walked there will be manifested more or less abduction and the character of the impediment varies according to the nature of the involvement.
There would certainly be an impediment in her own case, since the bride was in love with someone other than the bridegroom.
It persisted during the whole of the war, and would probably have proved a serious impediment to the conclusion of peace had he lived until it became accomplished.
The densest portions of the wood seemed to offer them no impediments, as they glided like rabbits through them.
The road having been handy, the hard riders were there almost as soon as the soft ones; and there being no impediments on the common, they all pushed boldly on among the now stooping hounds.
"Say, do you think you could have nailed that runaway horse, with such an impediment twisting you up?"
The impediment must have seemed to him as grave as what is before me seems to us; but he conquered.
Patty had a painful impediment in his speech, and the strain of the public occasion doubled it.
This was a strange speech, now that, on the empty stage, each might play his part without impediment from the other.
Heck considers the long tail of the domestic sheep the chief impediment to the adoption of the theory of its descent from the short-tailed wild sheep.
It has stood twice the regulation five minutes; and is there any just cause or impediment why it should not be poured out?
There is constant service, there is constant competition; there is no monopoly, there is no injury to the public interest, there is no impediment to the general progress.
These impediments were now, in the confusion of my understanding, overlooked or despised, and I forthwith set out upon this hopeless expedition.
What impediments were there between me and liberty which I could not remove, and remove with so much caution as to escape notice?
Those streams were to be accurately surveyed, the impediments to their navigation ascertained, and their relative advantages examined.
There she stood at work, earning her bread without any impediment to the natural operation of her female charms, and adjusting the accounts of some great firm with as much facility as grace.
The cars do not run on Sundays, and run but once a day on other days over the whole line; so that in fact the impediment to travelling spreads over two days.
He removed every impediment to the marriage with Anne other than the fact that Henry was married already.
Independent of mechanical difficulties, two great impediments will forever prevent the realization of any such ambitions aspirations.
I carefully avoided saying anything to that young man, because, I, too, at times, had a rather bad impediment in my speech.
It was an old piano, with an impediment in its speech, out of the yellow notes of which Ruth could have made nothing; but in Dare's hands it spoke for him as he never could have spoken for himself.
Ideal love is either the memory of actual love, or the notion of it prevented from becoming actual by some impediment.
The impediments and risks opposed to my design were great, but my fortune, or misfortune, carried me through them all.
Primary education was declared obligatory from the first, but the scarcity of properly qualified teachers and the lack of all requisites proved serious impediments to educational organization.
Demosthenes, who was the most gifted orator of antiquity, had an impediment in his speech in early life.
There is no limitation to the torments which it may inflict, without impediment or fear of public criticism, if present secrecy can be maintained.
This was an impediment which it was possible to ignore; but it was followed by another more serious.
A rare merit, with which we must credit him as another impediment: the scene was laid in France.
The want of churches is not the only impediment to piety: there is likewise a want of Ministers.
As soon as a baby is born, the midwife blows into its mouth, ears and nose in order to clear them of any impediments.
We went forward very rapidly because the Mongol plains began here, free from the impediments of mountains.
In the course of the next morning the camels were to be taken to the outside well to be watered, and a few impediments which blocked the gap being removed they began to move out.
Uttering them, perhaps, with more piercing earnestness, because of the impediment; and winning out of the very difficulty a grace and a triumph.
It was just as they had paused breathless before beginning to climb one of the great step-like impediments.
Having cleared away some impediments, we had less difficulty in returning than we had found in going upwards.
Already the creature was within a couple of yards of him, in spite of the impediment which Merlin offered.
Sea after sea, huge masses of glittering foam came rolling in on them, threatening to fill the boat, should she for one instant meet with any impediment.
We had made good some five or six hundred yards, when I thought that we might make faster progress on the higher ground, where the water would not be so great an impediment to our progress.
We succeeded in crossing the Delaware without impediment; but we had no little difficulty, at times, to avoid falling in with the troops of the contending parties.
I had, however, been used to ground of all sorts, and was not to be stopped by such trifling impediments as rocks, bushes, stone walls, or streams.
Still, notwithstanding all impediments, we accomplished thirty miles a day; that is fast going, you will allow, compared to the stage-wagon or other ancient means of conveyance.
Her progress, however, was not without impediment, as huge masses of ice came floating down, lately broken up by the warm sun of the early spring.
A watch was set, as usual; and two large fires were kept up, which would scare any wild beasts, though they might not prove any impediment to the approach of snakes.
I well remember one other boy, made eccentric by his peculiar face and an unfortunate impediment of speech.
He steered round all impediments as coolly as the wind that whistled through the half-frozen reins he held.
Under the circumstances of the case, I will not, unless I am forced to do it; but your friend will throw no impediment in the way of my getting any of the hands I may require.
Slaves are generally treated kindly by their masters, and as their price is high, on account of the impediments thrown in the way of the slave trade, their health is carefully looked after.
Charles earnestly hoped that this might be the case, and that when restored to health, a happiness, to which this accident need, he thought, oppose no impediment, might be in store for his friend.