Could thwart the will of Heaven itself and curb Poseidon's might!
See to it that you are armed, for he would shoot or stab you as he would a dog when he finds that you thwart him in a matter that he has so much at heart.
My only regret to-night,' replied Roland, 'is that it lies not in my power to thwart you in your infamous plot.
I incline to believe that his quick penetration detected signs among the warriors that they did not mean to let him withdraw, when he should seek to do so, and his plan was to use the quarrel as a shield to thwart their purpose.
Should he hand him back his weapons he might not attempt to injure the youth, but he would tell his comrades enough to lead them to do their utmost to thwart the purpose of Deerfoot and his friends.
Lone Bear showed an unwillingness to tell any thing, and now it was to be expected that he and his companions would take care to thwart the wishes of the Shawanoe and what friends he might have.
I tell thee that base courtezan, the Duchess of Portsmouth, hath impudently set herself to thwart and contradict me; and Charles has given me both cloudy looks and hard words before the Court.
The Partridge, though decorated with no brilliant colours, which would tend to thwart it in its habit of concealing itself among vegetation of the same general hue as itself, is a beautiful bird.
As it was, the man who had ceased to be responsible was allowed to thwart the policy of the actual administrator on whom the whole responsibility for the safety of the country rested.
Night clothes the continents, and 'thwart the gloom No ray descends on shadowed peaks or plains, From history's sun.
Day from his quiver drew a shining shaft, And 'thwart the night the flaming arrow flew.
Dorothy dropped down on a thwart with the box in her hand.
For a moment or two he rested on a thwart in a state of semi-collapse.
Prickett tells only: "Thwart of Sheppey, our Master sent Master Colbert back to the owners with his letter.
When the other two toppled overboard this one had slid off the thwart and fallen against the steersman.
But whence the devil and a half should come to thwart her was not obvious.
And he had no more doubt of there being a means to thwart it than a mathematician has of the result of two times two, applied.
Now," said she, "let White Brother of the Snow make the line which he has received fast and tight to the bow thwart of his canoe.
There was twice too much weight in the canoe, but these islanders think nothing of loads, and for hours the company sat to windward or on the thwart while we took advantage of every puff of wind that blew.
They raised the slender mast, a rose-wood tree, roughly shaped in the forest, and fastened it to either thwart with three ropes.
When he knew of their approach he warned the people about him not to thwart him; and only in one of these fits, on intense provocation from a man who had wronged him, did he strike a deadly blow with a chance weapon.
You thwart Him if you treat my words now as a mere sermon to be criticised and forgotten; you thwart Him if you do anything with His message except take it to your heart and rest wholly upon it.
Are you going to receive it, and 'justify' Him, or are you going to reject it, and thwart Him?
So completely can men thwart God, as Jesus said in reference to John's mission, 'The Pharisees and lawyers frustrated the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.
You can thwart the purpose, but it is kicking against the pricks.
You can thwart God's purpose about yourself, but the great purpose goes on and on.
Even as it is blasphemy To thwart the will of God.
The Democratic leaders, however, having learned of this magnificent coup, put their heads together and soon resolved to thwart Billy's plan.
When not engaged in actual hostilities, they have watched each other with jealous animosity--seeking by intrigue and diplomatic schemes to thwart or defeat the designs which one or the other had formed for national aggrandizement.
This was done after the Indian fashion, by drawing up the edges of the skin with thongs, and keeping them distended by sticks or thwart pieces.
They have thwartpieces from side to side about three inches thick, and their gunwales flare outwards, so as to cast off the surges of the waves.
It consisted of a bow and a stern section, each about seven feet in length and provided with a thwart and a water-tight compartment.
Standing up on the thwart in an endeavour to get a better view, I was warned by the accelerating undulations of the skiff that I had floated right onto the intake of a riffle which I had assumed was still several hundred yards distant.
You call it love tothwart her to her face, and bandy insults?
To-morrow, you will be once more about your pleasures; you will give us leave once more to think and work for you; and again you will come back, and again you will thwart what you had not the industry or knowledge to conceive.
God is just, and there is no use of trying to thwart his will.
I wish I could thwart them, for Miss Burton's position will place her full in the public eye, and I do not wish her to be the victim of their vulgarity.
It would not be maidenly, Ida, to step one hair's breadth beyond the line of scrupulous, womanly delicacy, and by any such course you would only defeat and thwart yourself.
He can't bear to thwart papa, but he says it would break his heart to go so far away, and that he knows it would kill him to be confined to a desk in that climate.
