And undue absorption at the outset in the physical object of sense hampers this growth.
I am glad the hampers are empty," remarked Mr. Dean.
A three-seated wagon stood waiting them as they came up to the meeting-place, and hampers of the most exciting appearance stuck out all round under the seats.
Beer, wine, and lemonade are flowing already from the bar, and the various clans of twenty file away into the woods, with bottles under their arms and the hampers strung upon a stick.
Many of the hampers had suffered severely; and it was judged wiser to save storage, dispose of them, and lay in a fresh stock when the campaign reopened.
For indeed during the last few days hampers of presents of all kinds had arrived in a steady flow at Eastbourne Terrace.
Four hampers were carried down the gangplank and set on the grass, about fifty feet ahead of Nissr's huge beak, that towered in air over the men like an eagle over sparrows.
I have no chance against the other two; but I also intend to spend my holidays here, and I tell Ruth she must send home hampers every week.
You must be pretty flush to send about hampers of that description.
The eyes of the good Burgess of Soleure twinkled when he beheld the young men in the act of transferring the supper from the hampers and arranging it on the table.
France and England have declared their intention of rendering all possible help to Serbia in her new ordeal, but Greece, false to her treaty with Serbia, and dominated by a pro-German Court and Government, hampers us at every turn.
When they left the Palais they took with them many hampers of wine, and a few days later they had a search made for further hampers of the vintages which were their preference.
His wife agreed and they mounted their horses and rode out to the hills taking with them great hampers of food and wine.
You have only the master to carry while I'm all laden down with hampers and empty jugs and I don't know what and with a mistress that's twice as big as she was a few months ago!
It is a power whose warning, inviting, persuading influence renders only more marked and dreadful the evil will which hampers and resists it.
The report on the Christmas trade at Norwich stated that the stage coaches conveyed 3,036 hampers of game and poultry to London.
The sleeve not only hampers the movement of the right arm but its weight on the outstretched arm is a great handicap.
An Inverness cape, even if thrown or buttoned back, is also inadmissible; it hampers the right shoulder.
At least he writes home grumbling letters enough, and we have to send him hampers of good things--Perigord pies and that.
He had plenty of pocket-money always, and rich men or rich boys are sure to have some one to listen to them with a certain amount of deference, and if Gould was not popular exactly, his hampers were.
If this "U" is too deep, it hampers your view of the object aimed at.
I agree with you, my dear, that it would be quite delightful, but the difficulty is that we could not persuade people to shower presents and hampers upon us in the ordinary course of events.
I'm not so short of money now as in the days when you used to sendhampers to my rooms in Oxford, and I should like her to look well.
In ten minutes more the boat was brought to a stand-still among the reeds; the Thorpe Ambrose hampers were unpacked on the roof of the cabin; and the current of the curate's eloquence was checked for the day.
This injunction, which for the individual worker's sake must be scrupulously attended to, hampers not only inquiry but reform, and delays still further the attempts at organization made here and there.
Willie Quarrie bustled about to get the trunks andhampers to the ferry steps.
It has been said that the hampers were to be sent to the tomb of Zachariah; but they agreed to dine immediately opposite to that of St. James the Less.
The stock of comestibles was therefore packed in hampers on a camel's back, and sent off to the valley by one route, whereas Miss Todd and her friends went on horseback and on donkey-back by another and a longer road.
Well, the eventful day came; and there were the old folks collected at the railway station with theirhampers and bags.
The colonel came across, and began to examine the hampers with his own hand.
Instantly the other eighteen hampers joined in, until the whole coachhouse rang with the noise.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hampers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
