The greatest obstacle to this arrangement had been a certain queue, which Ithuel habitually wore in a cured eel-skin that he had brought with him from America, eight years before, and both of which, "queue and eel-skin," he cherished as relics of better days.

Now the only obstacle to our acquitting this poor old man is the fact that there is in evidence a conversation in which Lowry is claimed to have said that he was a veterinary and had been acting as such all his life.

Another obstacle had been the fear of the danger to which the Presbyterian Church might be "exposed, when brought thus within the power of a Legislature so frequently influenced by one which held her, not as a sister, but rather a bastard usurper to a sister's inheritance."

Probably the greatest obstacle to the use of the Bible is the senseless form in which custom persists in publishing it.

The chief or capital obstacles which impede or prevent a pious recitation of the Breviary are: sin, the passions, the absorbing thoughts of creatures and the ignorance of the Divine Office.

One obstacle alone remained to the full and unlimited power of the exulting minister, who had not failed to perceive that henceforward his influence over the sovereign could never again be shaken; and that obstacle was Marie de Medicis.

That obstacle is the estuary of the Medway, which Rochester guarded and possessed.

The only great obstacle was the difficulty of enlisting men in what was now more than ever to be dangerous work.

Comedies abound (though they reach the stage only by accident) in which the obstacle between Corydon and Phyllis, between Lord Edwin and Lady Angelina, is not even a defect or peculiarity of character, but simply some trumpery misunderstanding which can be kept afoot only so long as every one concerned holds his or her common sense in studious abeyance.

We then soon discover, that difficulty is, for the most part, the daughter of idleness, that the obstacles with which our way seemed to be obstructed were only phantoms, which we believed real, because we durst not advance to a close examination; and we learn that it is impossible to determine without experience how much constancy may endure, or perseverance perform.

Its particular obstacle in that department is professional politics.

The chief obstacle to our arriving at these salutary views is that hypocrisy of the world to which I have already alludedan hypocrisy which should be early revealed to the young.

A third obstacle to the successful operation of free labor, was the absence of the most influential proprietors.

The one obstacle to this marriage of kindred souls has been Turkey.

The German mind, so much honored in Europe for its scientific capacity, for its consistency regarding principles, and its correct criticism, is not dead here: but it has to struggle against difficulties too numerous to be detailed here; and therefore it is that the Americans don't know of its existence, and the chief obstacle is their different languages.

The obstacle which opposed their entrance was the dead body of John Blount.

The obstacle was a huge beaver dam.

The insurmountable obstacle in her path is the simple, old-fashioned dogged courage of the average British seaman.

The chief obstacle to a Frenchman or Englishman learning Russian is the difficult and confusing alphabet; the chief obstacle to anyone learning English is the irrational spelling.

Any other obstacle between us shall be removed;be it her mother, her fatheryour husband!

The real obstacle to socialism in England is the sense of sanctity about a man's savings.

At that height there was little vegetation, and at a mad gait we sped across a bare stretch where the only obstacles were lumps of rock that were scattered around in great profusion.

In fact, the only obstacle is the nullah; but, as you may see from the photos, this obstacle is no small one, and could only be crossed by two paths as far as we knew.

I say, unhesitatingly, that the main obstacle to women getting the vote is militancy and nothing else.

A second obstacle was the opposition of the hostile peoples who surrounded the little Judean community.