Thinking of this on the river-bank, in connection with the distressing scene which I had just had with Alicia, I found that the mysterious
obstacle at which she had hinted, the mysterious life led by her father, and the mysterious top of the house that had hitherto defied my curiosity, all three connected themselves in my mind as links of the same chain.
She has said No, because there is some
obstacle in her way.
I don't deny," he said, "that there are some serious
obstacles in your way.
Have you heard of any
obstacle to the contemplated marriage of Mr.
Up to the first
obstacle, the stream, he could not guide the motions of his mare.
If I give them cause to think themselves suspected a second time, there's no knowing what
obstacles they may not throw in my way-- the women especially.
THE column that had butted stoutly at the
obstacles in the roadway was barely out of the youth's sight before he saw dark waves of men come sweeping out of the woods and down through the fields.
The
obstacles she had encountered, the insults she had endured, were only as fuel to the purpose of revenge which consumed her.
Koner, triumphantly demonstrated the feasibility of the journey, its chances of success, the nature of the
obstacles existing, the immense advantages of the aerial mode of locomotion, and found fault with nothing but the selected point of departure, which it contended should be Massowah, a small port in Abyssinia, whence James Bruce, in 1768, started upon his explorations in search of the sources of the Nile.
The Negro boy has
obstacles, discouragements, and temptations to battle with that are little know to those not situated as he is.
The
obstacles in the way of his desire seemed to him purely artificial, and yet he could see no way of removing them.
Without this unerring guide the Scarecrow and his comrades might never have gained the Emerald City; for many were the
obstacles thrown in their way by the arts of old Mombi.
