What man had ever become great, who allowed himself to be impededby small scruples?
We galloped as fast as our horses could go for fifteen miles, along the ravine which had impeded our journey during the preceding day, when we fell in with a small creek.
The field-tents were crowded to excess, the surgeons hardly able to move about, and much impeded in their operations.
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It shifted the onus from the friends to the opponents of the President; and besides giving them the advantage of the defensive, impeded the supporters of Mr. Livingston's motion with preliminary and extrinsic questions from the start.
But though the renaissance had begun, it was impeded and dangerously threatened by the power of the Shogun.
So effective was the charge, that the Persians fled in dismay, notwithstanding their superiority in number; while the ravine so impeded their flight that many of them were slain, and eighteen prisoners made.
Access to either of the breastworks was impeded by the fire of a 37 mm.
It has even been impeded by the fire of our artillery upon the superstructure, to demolish the enemy machine-guns placed there.
So the poor beast was shipped again, only to be shipwrecked near Porto Venere, where he was last seen swimming valiantly, but hopelessly impeded by his chain, and baffled by the rocky shore.
Your restless zeal alone has impeded your pardon hitherto.
Our progress, also, at length began to be impeded by fallen or sunken trees, which not only rendered the ascent dangerous, but at the end of about two miles fairly brought us to a standstill, and forbade our further advance.
As we drew near our progress was impeded by a fierce south-east breeze during the forenoons, which we found to prevail during our stay, being stronger at the full and change of the moon.
Opinions concur in representing Kent Group as the best position for a light at the eastern entrance, where certainly one is most required, the Strait being there so much impeded with rocks and islands.
There was now heavy work before us, with the thermometer at 93 degrees in the shade: we had to drag the boats over the large flat that impeded our progress.
As to the crew of the Admiral's ship, two of the Portuguese marines went into the magazine passage, and with their drawn swords impeded the handing up the powder.
The fleets of England impeded the navigation, and the demands at home were too urgent and too great to permit much to be hazarded for the sake of such a distant possession.
A few paces from the clearing, some monstrous iguanas were lying in the sun, wallowing in the grayish mud of a stream whose water ran with a slight murmur through the obstacles of every description that impeded its course.
They had, however, no little difficulty in keeping him there, for when his hitherto impeded circulation was completely restored, the stinging sensation increased, and made him feel that only a plunge in the sea would cure him.
Thus impededin all her inclinations, the wife of the First Consul must swallow her grief and seem ungrateful, although she is not.
They calculated the time which the courier would consume in order to reach Vienna from the battle-field, and the obstacles and delays that might have possibly impeded his progress were taken into consideration.
Very few of the rivers of Ceylon are navigable, and these only by canoes and flat-bottomed paddy boats, which ascend some of the largest for short distances, tillimpeded by the rapids, occasioned by rocks in the lowest range of the hills.
According to Colonel Walker's report, the evacuation and embarkation at his post was orderly, thoughimpeded by a heavy rain-storm, and restricted by the very insufficient transportation afforded by the boats.
Impeded by the barge in tow, its greatest speed was slow progress, and for half an hour the gunners in the batteries watched the black night to see the hurrying Carondelet shot for an instant out of the darkness at every lightning flash.
But there was one rule which specially impeded the naturalisation of the Church in the world and the transformation of a communion of the saved into an institution for obtaining salvation, viz.
They soon had opposition from the proslavery leaders who impeded the progress of the institution.
He had noticed that many of the harem inmates, contrary to the general Oriental custom, were allowed to go about unattended by the usual guard of eunuchs, but that they walked in a painful, hesitating, and impeded manner.
The great muscle of respiration, the diaphragm, is impeded in its motion, and is, therefore, unable to act freely.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "impeded" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: arrested; backward; behind; delayed; late; retarded; tardy
