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It seemed to her that such principles could only be a hindrance in farm management.† (source)
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I have already explained to you that what is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance.† (source)
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Perhaps he will be young, strong, and enduring, like yourself, and will aid you in your escape, while I have been but a hindrance.† (source)
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Books are hindrances to persisting stupidity.† (source)
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However, he and Hermione worked out where most of the poles and pegs should go, and though Mr. Weasley was more of a hindrance than a help, because he got thoroughly overexcited when it came to using the mallet, they finally managed to erect a pair of shabby two-man tents.† (source)
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"Actually, I think it could be a hindrance," Langan replied.† (source)
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To a man on foot, stairs are a hindrance.† (source)
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He had outgrown hindrances faster than the H—G men could think them up.† (source)
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Centuries later, when I was in my satyr period, I felt that I finally understood poor don Balthazar's priapic compulsions, but in those days it was mostly a hindrance to keeping young girls on the estate's staff.† (source)
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It is impiety even to place hindrances in their ways.† (source)
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The long gap in their communications proved no hindrance at all.† (source)
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Physical courage and the love of battle, for instance, are no great help—may even be hindrances—to a civilized man.† (source)
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One day I found that I was striding long distances without hindrance, my bundle light.† (source)
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Everyone was too busy with their own affairs to help her, and the little girls were only hindrances, for the dears fussed and chattered like so many magpies, making a great deal of confusion in their artless efforts to preserve the most perfect order.† (source)
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The cam allows the jumar to slide upward without hindrance, but it pinches the rope securely when the device is weighted.† (source)
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Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.† (source)
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