In the Epistles, Paul, pouring forth the confessions of a fiery nature, proclaims the sense of sin to be the contracted hinderance that bars the ascent, and against which the wings of the struggling will beat only to grow faint.
I am rich, and it will be a disparagement, or at least a hinderance to me, to show that respect to him as otherwise I might.
Is the regarding of sin in our heart such a deadly hinderance to prayer?
Me Receive as well: -- small hinderance to thy boat, Which bears my spirit, would my body be.
But with more hinderance and vexatious crew Swarm here and there, and wholly block the way; And that dishonour will ensue and loss, Rogero sees, if him they longer cross.
And when his brother invited him again [to plead his cause], he came down and spake about the justice of it, and then went away without any hinderance from Pompey; so he was between hope and fear.
Poor he was at first, and for a long time his wants were a hinderance to him in his wicked designs.
So he abode at Cesarea; but as soon as those that were his hinderance were gone, when Varus was gone to Antioch, and Archclaus was sailed to Rome, he immediately went on to Jerusalem, and seized upon the palace.
It contained a free toleration for all persons to profess the European faith, and forbade, on grievous penalties, any hinderance or molestation to the new Bonzas in the exercise of their functions.
So it hath bene, and is a great hinderance to the owners of the mines, and to the kings quinto or custome.
I said farther, that I had no doubt it lay in his power to dispatch me; but if he did not think proper to do so, or if any other hinderance was in my way, I should on the morrow again apply to the king.
Finds excuses for keeping away from the prayer meeting or from the paths of endeavor, and becomes a hinderance instead of a blessing to husband, to family, and to society.
On the other hand, let a woman refuse to be influenced by this law of charity, and she becomes a curse instead of a blessing, a hinderance instead of a helpmeet.
Evidently it was destiny, for there was never a let or hinderance in all her preparations.
At the close of the sixth year there happened what many said was a thing devil-conceived and wrought out by the devil to the shame of a pure name, and to the hinderance of the people of God.
The pride and the honesty and the rude candor and instinctive purity of this young life of hers had been a perpetual hinderance and canker to him: begotten of evil, by all the laws of justice, in evil she should live and die.
This was no small hinderance vnto mee, in the takyng of those pleasant dainties and princely refection.
Every thing is sent them from the monastery in the valley: their food is every day brought to each cell; and all are supplied with wood and necessaries, that they may have no dissipation or hinderance in their contemplation.
Pardon me, brethren: be not my hinderance in attaining to life, for Jesus Christ is the life of the faithful; while I desire to belong to God, do not ye yield me back to the world.
We hear of all kinds of instruments of debauchery; of lewd books and lewd pictures; of indecent sculptures and bronzes being sold without let orhinderance in the stores of Paris.
Is there not a far more striking inconsistency in supinely allowing the same vice to exist and increase, without hinderanceor examination?
Again, the habit of over-criticism is another hinderance to pleasantness.
I assert for myself," said he, "that I do not behold the outward creation, and that to me it is hinderance and not action.
So it would seem that ignorance is not always a hinderance to success; on the contrary, it is sometimes the very foundation of what passes for knowledge.
Each seems to have some compensation yielded to him by his infirmity, and every hinderance operates as a concentration of his force.
One hinderance then succeeded another, and much time was consumed in seeking the way.
Queen of the Wirthshaus" ball, around whom the partners flocked and beseeched, was a stout young woman of about thirty, whom I had seen solemnly and deliberately footing it in the procession, without pause or hinderance from beginning to end.
I wondered at first that they should have been willing to embarrass themselves with a stranger, until I perceived that my presence was no hinderance at all to their demonstrations of affection.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hinderance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
