impedimental

Be this as it may, he does know much about it, and, in the demolition of impedimental fragments of wall, buttress, and pavement, has seen strange sights.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 2007

When a man is shouting for joy he can scatter largesse with a free hand, but he cannot loosen his purse-strings while he is holding his breath; and even when it is only being held for him by a sort of hypnotic suggestion, his nature is still undergoing a certain impedimental strain.

King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties Laurence Housman 1912

Be this as it may, he does know much about it, and, in the demolition of impedimental fragments of wall, buttress, and pavement, has seen strange sights.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood 1870

Mr. Byers started slightly, but it appeared that the impedimental sex in this case was the coach, which, after a slight feminine hesitation, was at last started.

Openings in the Old Trail Bret Harte 1869

They lingered long at Nice; and here Talbot and Lucy joined them, with an impedimental train of luggage and servants, and a Normandy nurse with a blue-eyed girl-baby.

Aurora Floyd. A Novel Mary Elizabeth 1863

Be this as it may, he does know much about it, and, in the demolition of impedimental fragments of wall, buttress, and pavement, has seen strange sights.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood Charles Dickens 1841

Fighting did, and alas must yet, though far seldomer now, superadd itself as an accident, a distressing impedimental adjunct.

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

Governing, -- to which occasionally Fighting did, and alas must yet, though far seldomer now, superadd itself as an accident, a distressing impedimental adjunct.

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838