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Updated: June 16, 2025
The first difficulty to be met with is the incredible poverty of their language which impedes the communication and development of an idea. I endeavour to remedy this deficiency by employing English words and phrases because this is the official language in the Protected Malay States, and the British Government wishes to make it popular.
Our hammocks are slung one above another. It is warm and offensive in the middle of our habitation; and those who have hammocks near the ports, are unwilling to have them open in the night. All this impedes the needful circulation of fresh air.
When the nature of things is unknown, or the notion unsettled and indefinite, and various in various minds, the words by which such notions are conveyed, or such things denoted, will be ambiguous and perplexed. And such is the fate of hapless lexicography, that not only darkness, but light impedes and distresses it; things may be not only too little, but too much known, to be happily illustrated.
The buzz of conversation in the House impedes its usual business no more than the dust raised by a troop impedes its march. The judges who in the Upper House were mere assistants, without the privilege of speaking, except when questioned had taken their places on the second woolsack; and the three Secretaries of State theirs on the third.
At present, caste and racial and religious differences, especially between Mohammedans and Hindus, though weakening, are powerful disintegrants; not one per cent of the population can read or write; and the existence of hundreds of native states impedes the progress of national agitation.
It is singularly flexible, elastic, and prolific. An obstacle impedes it, it opens another path; if burdened by fetters, it still walks on while bearing them; if restrained on a given point, it leaves it, and rebounds elsewhere.
When you find a flower, you know how to turn it to the best possible use." "The substance of flowers is fragile, especially if of the lily tribe, and impedes nothing," remarked the learned Dane in considered tones, though what he meant Godfrey did not understand at the moment. On consideration he understood well enough.
The psychology of translation shows that it gives the novice a consciousness of etymologies which rather impedes than helps the free movement of the mind.
"Much speaking makes for thirst and impedes motion. Let us cross this desert." "O Zeyn al-Din, if you be no right head man we shall choose another!" "Choose!" said Zeyn al-Din, and went to the head of a camel who would not rise from the sand. Ill luck clung and clung. Twelve hours and there began to be cabals. These grew to factions.
The region itself has an area six times that of the State of Rhode Island, and on account of the difficulty in traversing it is but imperfectly known. Countless winding intricate water channels extend in every direction. Many of these are filled with tall sawgrass which, growing from the bottom, greatly impedes the passage even of small boats.
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