Here you can generally pole your raft up-stream when the water is deep enough to float it and is not obstructed by rocks, logs, or snags.
And setting off at a gallop along the bridle-path, which was obstructed a little farther on by the fence itself, she struck her horse resolutely, and with one audacious bound sprang over the entrance gate.
It crosses the creek probably fifty times, and the banks being abrupt, and the road obstructed in many places by down timber, the progress of the command was extremely slow and tedious.
The road up the mountain, a steep and difficult one at best, was seriously obstructed at this time by large quantities of down timber that had to be cut out or passed around, so that the ascent was very slow and trying to men and beasts.
It was not difficult to bury myself in the forest that pressed around me on every side, and a few minutes saw me struggling with the embarrassments of the tangled vines which obstructed the path up our steepest hill.
We encountered Wheeler's cavalry, which had obstructed the road by felling trees, but our men picked these up and threw them aside, so that this obstruction hardly delayed us an hour.
The Savannah River was found to be badly obstructed by torpedoes, and by log piers stretched across the channel below the city, which piers were filled with the cobble stones that formerly paved the streets.
The country was a rolling prairie, and, from the higher ground, the vision was obstructed only by the earth's curvature.
We found this gap very badly obstructed by fallen timber, but got through that night, and the next day the main army was at Villanow.
The rebels had obstructed the navigation of Yazoo Pass and the Coldwater by felling trees into them.
These Chaco rivers are obstructed by sand bars and snags, which could be removed only by an expenditure of money unwarranted by the present population and traffic.
The roads were very muddy, the march was obstructedby wagons in front and we made only 2 1-2 miles in four hours.
I am glad to believe that my third shot simply convinced him that a change of base was desirable and that he acted upon that conviction while the smoke obstructed my vision.
They broke up all the bridges too, and obstructed the roads by every means in their power, so as to impede the progress of the Swedes as much as possible, since they could not wholly arrest it.
The passage was often obstructed when messages were to be delivered, and frequently there was no room left for the members when they wished to confer privately with each other.
Only a few of them showed much use of late years, being obstructed by logs and overgrown with bushes.
This is also obstructed from within half mile of its mouth up by log jams.
It is about fifty feet wide at its mouth, but obstructed with log jams almost down to the inlet.
The natives declared it could not be seen because the south hill of the Baregga obstructed the view, but by our levels and triangulations we knew it ought to be seen; and it has been seen.
From north to west the northern range of mountains obstructed the free passage of the winds, and assisted to maintain that equable heat of the valley that was necessary for the fostering of that marvellous vegetation.
There was one small window opening on to the courtyard some thirty feet below, the view of the yard being partially obstructed by a projecting wing of the house immediately beneath.
He stopped, and, raising his hand above his head, found that it was not obstructed by the roof: he had evidently come to the end of the passage.
The haven was itself so obstructed with ice that on the very night of my arrival, with the help of my cook and some tins of jam, I was able to serve up Neapolitan ices to my staff, like Tortoni himself.
Finally progress to the south was obstructed by impassable gullies where the wash plunged into the head of a canyon.
Fast riding through the forest along a crooked, obstructed trail called forth all her alertness.
Madeline caught a glimpse of tents inside, then her view was obstructed by a curious, pressing throng.
Joy corresponds to desire fulfilled, sorrow to the obstructedor imperiled fulfillment; hope is the expectation of fulfillment, fear the opposite, etc.
Finally he was obstructed in his birth, for a man is occupied in measuring.
Arteries become obstructed as a result of wounds and other injuries to them, as those caused by the formation of an abscess or the extension of inflammation from surrounding structures to the coats of an artery.
Arteries are also obstructed by the breaking off of particles of a plug or clot, partly obstructing the aorta or other large artery.
These obstructions are shown by loss of power in the muscles supplied by the obstructed artery and by excitation of the heart and by respiration after exercise.
Sometimes the nasal passage is obstructed by great masses of the necrosed exudate, thus causing extreme difficulty in breathing.
We were now obstructedby ice 3° lower, and our endeavours to push farther to the northward were principally confined to the mid-space between the two coasts.
The remainder of our passage was performed with great facility and expedition, the river growing more rapid as we descended, and less obstructed by shoals.
He promised Madame that, provided Bontemps did nothing which called for notice, she should not be obstructed in the exercise of her profession, especially if she followed it in secret.
Don Alvaro accomplished his object in the face of a desperate enemy, and, after some hard fighting, succeeded in sinking nine brigantines laden with stones in the mouth of the river, and thus effectually obstructed its navigation.
The artillery and ammunition-wagons choked up the road, and obstructed the flight of the fugitives.
Footnote: This occurs especially about the joints, where it serves to maintain the circulation during the bending of a limb, or when the main artery is obstructed by disease or injury, or has been tied by the surgeon.
