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Example sentences for "thwarting"

Lexicographically close words:
thuswise; thut; thwack; thwart; thwarted; thwarts; thy; thyder; thye; thyine
  1. I will also fairly state that, after thwarting Canning's favourite plans for Huskisson, I am the more anxious not to interpose unnecessary difficulty in the way of this.

  2. Christian theology then evolved theories of miraculous methods of cure, based upon modes of appeasing the divine anger, or of thwarting satanic malice.

  3. The hope must be in following reason, not in thwarting it.

  4. Of a sudden she had assumed control of the situation unfalteringly, and both men felt the impossibility of thwarting her.

  5. On the contrary, I am cheered by the recollection, that a great part of my life has been spent in detecting his tricks, and in thwarting his wicked designs.

  6. Let us think of this, when we are treating any animal unkindly, and beware lest we "be found even to fight against God," by thwarting his benevolent designs for the happiness of every creature he has sent forth upon the earth.

  7. Such a struggle you lay your account with, the thwarting of men's interests being the very object you have in view.

  8. I've heard you say a hundred times, that it is a thwarting of God's plan whenever a child dies: why don't you cure Raby?

  9. Eben would reply; "all very true: it is a thwarting of God's plan whenever any human being dies before he is fully ripe of old age.

  10. But President du Ronceret, in underhand ways, was thwarting the old man's plans, and working indirectly upon the Blandureaus.

  11. His only aggressive measures during 1513 had been directed against the French, with the patriotic view of thwarting renewed attempts upon the Peninsula, in which they were seconded by Spain and Venice.

  12. His passion was at a fearful height, for the family pride which had been appealed to felt a touch of fear, and his other thoughts were confirmed again, besides the dim vision of a possible thwarting of all his plans.

  13. And so I remind you that the thwarting of God's counsel is the awful prerogative of unbelief.

  14. Horace Walpole writes of him as a man 'whose proud and sullen and contemptuous temper never suffered him to wait for thwarting his superiors till risen to a level {292} with them.

  15. They, or the ladies of the court, who were their tools, bought shares in the venture, and Jesuit priests went out to Acadia, thwarting and quarrelling with Poutrincourt and his son.

  16. These pictures, though yellowed and faded, suggest vividly the being I once was, the feelings that possessed and animated me, love for my playmates, vague impulses struggling for expression in a world forever thwarting them.

  17. She hated Love Ellsworth for thwarting her plans--hated and loved him, in a breath; for his splendid, manly beauty had made an ineffaceable impression on her heart.

  18. Mrs. Ellsworth, angry and indignant at the thwarting of her cherished schemes, steeled her heart to all the charms of her youngest niece, and cherished a secret resentment that was destined to bear bitter fruit.

  19. This was, of course, enough to rouse the enmity of the whole Society of Jesus against him, and its members have been busy ever since in thwarting all his plans and doing their utmost to render him unpopular with his subjects.

  20. Awhile he holds some false way, undebarr'd By thwarting signs, and braves The freshening wind and blackening waves.

  21. What was discoverable was quaint, curious, but thwarting and perplexing, because it seemed to imply some very great purpose, only to be brought out by what was hidden.

  22. And nothing was more valuable than confidence when you were bent on thwarting the confidee's little plans.

  23. But men in opposition aim chiefly at thwarting all action, good or bad, and a parliamentary system gives the advantage to obstruction.

  24. You're sure it's you who have been thwarting all my plans these last few days?

  25. Once more in his confused brain the idea arose of striking, not to kill, because the woman must be dead, but of striking the invisible enemy who persisted in thwarting him and of conjuring all the evil spells at one blow.

  26. I am the obstacle to his plans--my presence here is somehow a thwarting influence against him," said he, as he folded up the paper.

  27. He looked on with a faint, bitter smile, understanding her mood just as he understood her dark threat of thwarting him.

  28. It would not sound dignified to say that the farm-bailiff took pleasure in thwarting John Broom.

  29. But so far from trying to cure himself of his indolence about daily drudgery, he found a new and pleasant excitement in thwarting the farm-bailiff at every turn.


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