For some time the brigade advanced at a rapid pace, without receiving any obstruction from the enemy’s fire.
Colonel Napier thus describes the affair:-- The ground upon which this brigade was in line is perfectly level, nor did any visible obstruction appear between it and the columns opposed.
The commonest disorders of this bird, are an obstruction of the rump gland, constipation, and atrophy[66].
Sneezing, produced by an obstruction in the nostrils, is removed by passing a very small quill up them to clear them.
The disorders to which the chaffinch is most subject are the obstruction of the rump gland[37] and diarrhoea.
An obstruction in the rump gland is their most common disorder, and must be treated in the manner described in the Introduction.
After--afterward," he answered, and his companion could hear that some obstruction stopped his speech.
The boy put his hand in a pocket and drew out the small folded square, and the lawyer felt some obstruction in his throat as he saw the worn tissue paper and the morsel of oiled silk being so tenderly unrolled.
The Middlesex, on the right, met with the same obstruction and lost many of its men and officers while waiting for the British artillery to smash a way through for them.
On reaching the plains, the boldness of their march and the graceful outline of their sweep are indicative of the little obstruction opposed by the sandy and porous soil through which they flow.
This is accounted for by theobstruction opposed by the headlands of Ceylon, which so intercept the stream that the current, which might otherwise set into the Gulf of Manaar, takes a south-easterly direction by Galle and Donedra Head.
Consequently, the degree of lameness depends upon the extent of the obstruction to circulation; and, likewise, the course and prognosis depend upon the character and extent of such obstruction.
Probably in the majority of instances there is insufficient obstruction of the lumina of vessels to provoke noticeable inconvenience.
And, further, we suppose there is anobstruction in your ears.
He removes from their throats the obstruction with which their grief is choking them, so that they may ease their burdened minds by speaking freely to their friends.
Now, then, we remove the obstruction carefully from your hearing, so that we trust you will easily hear the words spoken.
Yohskoharo, writes Mr. Bearfoot, means an obstruction by driftwood in creeks or small rivers.
And also we imagine there is an obstructionin your throat.
Many fell dead or wounded, while others tripped over their prostrate bodies; but by sheer weight of numbers the fence was overthrown, and over the removedobstruction rushed the bloodthirsty mob.
A couple of drops, where one would suffice, and this obstructionto your loves was removed.
He selected a stout barley straw, and finding a knot in it endeavored to perforate the obstruction with a pin.
But another kind of obstruction vexed Murtagh even more than the brakes of bamboo.
Yet another kind of obstruction our travellers had to encounter on their way across the great plain.
The great obstruction of the river, which had been in sight all winter, was now out of mind for the time being.
Here was an obstruction in the shape of the Rappahannock river, which had to be crossed by a ferry into Fredericksburg.
When we reached the door, where we encountered the guard, Miss Craig left to me the task of overcoming the obstruction of a loaded musket in the hands of a soldier in gray.
Finally he reached a shelf that brought him, in touch with theobstruction overhead and stopped to take out his pocketknife, with which he commenced to create a loophole.
It rolled up, all but over, while the next tire met the obstructionand caught.
No obstruction to the Kite’s progress was met until about 16 miles north of the Duck Islands.
When Debs's Union defied the court injunction, the President sent General Miles out to Chicago with a military force to suppress that obstruction to the United States laws.
It seemed to overcome the obstruction to the energy of the internal forces, for the eruption now declined, and in a day or two practically died away, though one or two comparatively insignificant outbursts took place later.
The fountain then begins playing, sending its bundles of jets rather higher than those of the Great Geyser, flinging up the clods of turf which have been its obstruction like a number of rockets.
His plans were ready, but the work was delayed by official obstruction and formality until 1858.
It is therefore very evident how cautious those should be, in the use of hot baths, who have weak hearts or any obstruction to the circulation.
Even if it were everything that a scientific hypothesis should be, the previously established modes of speech would be a permanent obstruction to its being received as the popular doctrine.
Where resistance ends and freedom begins, there is space; where freedom ends, and obstruction begins, there is matter.
The greatest efforts of our combining faculty cannot exceed the elements presented to it, and these elements contain nothing that would set forth the situation of space ending, and obstruction not beginning.
Obstruction to the truth recoils upon the obstructors.
This obstruction has now been swept away, and the Forum is fully exposed from end to end.
Washington sent so large a force of troops to suppress it that the rioters vanished on their approach, and there was no further obstruction of the ordinary course of justice.
Yet there was some obstruction to the belief that we were bound for no more than the steamer Aldebaran, anchored in Bugsby's Reach.
