Even in the lowest state of his fortune, his great and necessary frugality never hindered him from exercising, upon proper occasions, acts both of charity and generosity.
This unsettled state of England hindered not Ethelwolf from making a pilgrimage to Rome, whither he carried his fourth and favorite son, Alfred, then only six years of age.
I see that you too are hindered by Curtius, though I think you have a passport.
Well, I am hinderedby want of matter, having nothing worth writing; for nothing that happens and nothing that is done has my approbation at all.
Judgment, like other faculties, is improved by practice, and its advancement is hindered by submission to dictatorial decisions, as the memory grows torpid by the use of a table-book.
If the shackles of rhyme hindered scientific accuracy of statement, she squared herself with facts by abundant footnotes in which the proper Latin terminology was given full scope.
Shall we upbraid women with folly, when 't is only the error of this inhuman custom that hindered them from being made wiser?
I crave my lady's pardon for being late with it; but my niece from London has but just arrived, and I was hindered for the moment.
It was part of Cherry's work and delight to cut them fresh as often as there was need, but a spell of wet weather had hindered her from her river-side rambles of late, with the consequence that the supply was unwontedly low.
Old Martha nursed me back to health again, and our stern father hindered her not in her tendance of me.
Nicholas, however, as may have been already gathered, bore no goodwill towards his nephew, and would fain have hindered his children from so much as exchanging a word with their kinsfolks.
This charge she laid upon me five long years agone, when she bid the tribe own me their queen, for that her age and infirmities hindered her from acting longer as such.
But French counts, they say, make love delightfully in broken English; and what hindered the doctor from doing the same in dulcet Tahitian.
The Jews themselves witness no less; for when they keep the Sabbath, they invite one another to drink till they are drunk; or if they chance to be hindered by some more weighty business, it is the fashion at least to taste the wine.
Anaximander, that the sun is eclipsed when the fiery mouth of it is stopped and hinderedfrom respiration.
Empedocles, that the sun is hindered from a continual direct course by its spherical vehicle and by the two circular tropics.
If Charlton could be hindered from meeting Mr. Thorn--But how, could Mr. Carleton effect it?
Then taking care of me has just hindered you in your business.
Later in the same article we are told that 'he that has money has the profit not actually, but only virtually; and it may be hindered in many ways.
Alswythe will take no more than these, lest you are hindered on the journey.
For when the army was gathered together in Aulis she caused that the winds blew ever from the north and hindered the ships from their voyage, so that the men were pinched with hunger and wasted with disease.
And for this young man, who on five or six separate occasions had so hindered her with his attentions, she had a deep and impulsive liking which, as it ran counter to her plan of life, she did not choose to encourage.
But the King, hindered during the day by constant attendance upon his guest, had some papers to look through before his next meeting with the Prime Minister.
Many were killed and more wounded as they crowded up the gangways, but nothing hindered the orderly and speedy landing by every gangway.
As a result of all these precautions, the factories were kept going, the ships were not hinderedfor lack of coal, and America's great preparedness program was carried on without hindrance or delay.
In my almost helpless state, this circumstance coming vividly to my mind, was all-sufficient to have brought about the foretold result, for it certainly for some time hindered my recovery.
He was really hindered by many things, amongst them his own ministerial habits of thought and plan.
We must not have those praying men hindered in their fight for souls by the music.
Or, they are hindered by something that they suppose to be specially unfavourable in their circumstances--their family.
Some Officers are hindered in the fight for Holiness by supposing that purity will deliver them from serious depression, low spirits, and the like.
Shall this good work be hindered for the want of a few hundred pounds?
And then our great work must suffer both for want of the needed plant to carry it on, and from the appearance of too much begging, which, in so many instances, has undoubtedly hindered our gathering in the very people we most wished to help.
All these eventshindered the progress of the works in cathedrals.
The unhappy Marie loathed the dissipation of a life which hindered her from ever being alone with her God.
A little Machiavelism would have hindered Poland from helping to save Austria, who has taken a share of it; from borrowing from Prussia, the usurer who had undermined it; and from breaking up as soon as a division was first made.
And it is you, monsieur, you have hindered the marriage.
For it was you, I am told, who hindered her marrying Monsieur Lebas' son.
On the other hand, her work must have been hindered by the duties of married life, even if her marriage had been thoroughly happy, and her lot free from exceptional material cares.
It is so much harder for us who belong to a family for we are hindered by the thought of people's noticing our attempts at reform.
But God must always know what blighted and hindered any life or growth of His; and let us believe that He sometimes saves and pities what we have scorned and blamed.
I to them, with a tone and look which witnessed the excess of my despair, why have you hindered me from dying, at once to prevent the thousand deaths I shall suffer from my grief?
You, by your cruel care, hindered me from easing my sad heart, by paying him the last duties he could receive from me!
From all this, madam, interrupted the clergyman, he is hindered by impossibility.
Arabella's blushes now hindered him from proceeding as he had intended.
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