Howe was taking his siesta, I went to the place where this impediment lay, and with a great effort threw it over the steep mountain-side.
Berlin would have been the next important stop in our journey but for an impediment which we had hardly anticipated.
We immediately vacated the front seats, and rolled away into the interior of the branch-built castle, leaving no impediment in the path of our enraged visitors.
It was a supernatural impediment in any case, however far it extended.
Relationship was no impediment to marriage, and widows were received among the wives of the late husband's brother.
Invariably kill such men as offer the slightest impediment to their operations, and take women and children prisoners.
But I do seriously apprehend that Mrs. --- will sometimes conclude that she has a natural impediment in her speech.
I cannot conjecture the reason of this long silence, unless some unforeseen impediment has occurred in concluding the bargain.
Her husband hath divorced her and desireth to go to al-Hejaz on the pilgrimage, and after her 'iddah hath expired and there remaineth not any impediment the betrothal can take place.
The divorce of Attaf's second spouse was only out of regard to his cousin-wife, and that there might not be an impediment to the success of his project.
But I can well understand that a wife may be a great impedimentin your way.
And do you, Megillus and Cleinias, answer for the young man as you did before; and if any impediment comes in our way, I will take the word out of your mouths, and carry you over the river as I did just now.
And that wind, though no hurricane, had a will of its own; while the waves, rolled perpetually against her bow by so long a succession of easterly winds, were a decided impediment to our progress.
Of course, we were steadily rising throughout, but so gradually and on so capital a road as to offer little impediment to our progress.
It should suffice for the condemnation of all Established Churches ever more, that the State-paid Priesthood of Great Britain is to-day the chief impediment to a system of Common Schools throughout the British Isles.
Jimmieboy, to whom words like impediment were rather strange.
In low states of the water, they are the termination of navigation by steam-boats, and the last place in the descent of the Ohio, where any considerable impediment occurs in its course.
The children indeed, cause no impediment in case of a separation, for they belong to the community from their second year, and are all brought up together.
It being always understood that wife, children, parents, and relations are no impediment with men of very different relative stations in society to their meeting on equal terms.
Henceforth, His divine inspirations would find no impediment to their action in the docile heart of that little child.
We are naturally fond of the idea of liberty till we come to suffer by it, or find it an impediment to some predominant passion; and then we wish to control it, as you did most despotically, by refusing to submit to the justice of the State.
The remote cause is frequently some impediment to the general circulation; as the torpor of the capillaries in cold paroxysms of fever, or great adhesions of the lungs.
This may so far be compared to the impediment of speech described in Sect.
Such regulations would in general be no material impediment to obtaining the article, but a very considerable one to making an improper use of it without detection.
This feature has heretofore been remarked, but not described with proper accuracy; and has consequently proved an impediment to the recognition of the artificial origin of the mounds, by those who have never seen them.
But happily now all impediment of distance is removed; and such are the facilities of communication that before the set of sun your contributions will brighten the faces of those distant sufferers.
His father explained to him, that we are only conscious of being in motion when the conveyance, in which we are placed, suffers some impediment in its progress.
So admirable had been the arrangements for the admission of the populace into the park, that great as was the concourse of spectators, not the slightest impediment occurred during their entrance.
