Despite the obstructions thrown in his path, he overtook the fugitives on the 13th of July at Carrick's Ford on the Cheat River.
Thus the river was closed and no fleet could approach New Orleans until these obstructionswere removed or overcome.
Although the ironclads could not pass the obstructionsto the inner harbor so as to help, Gillmore persevered, and finally rendered Forts Wagner and Gregg untenable.
No obstructions were resorted to, and comparatively a short time was consumed on both sides in speeches devoted to individual explanations.
He distinctly announced that if war were declared he would present no obstructions to its successful conduct but would do all that was required of him as a member of the House.
I rejoice that in the last two years some of those obstructions which hindered the free access of our meat products to American markets have been removed.
Therefore for information, know that there are these five things that are obstructionsto prayer, and even make void the requests of the creature.
It will beget in you a good appetite to that which is good; it will remove obstructions in the stomach and liver.
Thus this text helpeth, where obstructions are put in against our believing, and thereby casting ourselves upon the love of God in Christ for salvation.
These things with many more seem to be utterly impossible: but there is that which is called the power of God, by the which he is able to make all things bend to his will, and to make all obstructions give place to what he pleases.
The obstructions to this cataract consisted of reddish schistose rock.
In exceptional cases obstructions which it would be impossible or too costly to turn are overcome by a bridge or tunnel, the magnitude of such works increasing with the growth of engineering skill and financial enterprise.
The piling up of the disrupted ice against obstructions in rivers ponds back the water, and often leads to destructive floods when the ice barriers break.
Similarly theobstructions offered to water communication by interruption through land or shallows are overcome by cutting canals or dredging out channels.
Twenty-four--The Allies and the United States of America shall have the right to sweep all mine fields and obstructions laid by Germany outside German territorial waters, and the positions of these are to be indicated.
It is well to begin as bow paddler, for your duty there, in smooth water, is to watch for obstructions such as hidden rocks and submerged logs or snags, while the paddler at the stern must steer the canoe and keep it in a straight course.
Illustration: One can generally pass around obstructions like this on the trail.
The different depths of the ocean, the obstructions of islands, and continents, clouds and sunshine, and a great many other agencies, combine to give this tortuosity and seeming irregularity to the currents.
An ordinary wheel of equal diameter took the obstructions with a series of bumps and bounds that made the contrast very striking.
And in common with ropeways it can claim independence of obstructions on the ground, and the ability to cross ravines with ease, which in the case of a railway would have to be bridged at great expense.
Now it was dry, packed hard, free of all obstructions except the great boulders, and led in a comparatively straight line toward the sea.
Kenkenes met frequent obstructions and was forced to reduce his rapid pace.
There is also the handicap of contrary air currents diverted by the obstructions referred to, and which will be explained more fully further on.
If the craft is navigated too close to the ground trees, shrubs, fences and other obstructions are liable to be encountered.
Captain Owen, of the Louisville, the leading boat, made every effort to go through the obstructions and aid in the rescuing of the men.
At a plantation near some Indian mounds we met a detachment of the Eighth Missouri, that had been up to the fleet, and had been sent down as a picket to prevent any obstructions below.
To prevent this as much as possible, I ordered all able-bodied negroes to be taken along, and warned some of the principal inhabitants that they would be held responsible for any more obstructions being placed across the creek.
Howe alleged as his reason for turning away from the Delaware, that there were obstructions in the river and forts to pass, and accordingly he thought it best to go around by way of Chesapeake Bay, and land his army at Elkton.
Now he might easily have gone a little way up the Delaware river without encountering any obstructions whatever, and landed his troops at a point only thirteen miles east of Elkton.
It was still doubtful, however, whether these two strongholds could effectually bar the ascent of so broad a river, and for further security Putnam undertook to place obstructions in the bed of the stream itself.
Sebago), long confined in certain lakes in consequence of obstructions that prevented it from returning to the sea.
A slender elastic rod, as of whalebone, with a sponge on the end, for removing obstructions from the esophagus, etc.
An explosive cartridge or shell lowered or dropped into a bored oil well, and there exploded, to clear the well of obstructions or to open communication with a source of supply of oil.
If we allowed that they travelled a mile in the hour, and that the obstructions of the waterfalls and sluice-board took as long to get over as all the rest of the journey, they would be able to reach G.
You may succeed in this, but why should not a man be allowed to fish in the river above the weir where there are no obstructions to the passage of the fish?
Their first efforts were directed to the cleansing of the streets, preventing waggons carrying over-weights through the city, removing obstructions from the highways, &c.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "obstructions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
