... Traverse: thwart...
George Grote 「The Two Great Retreats of History」
...And he had no more doubt of there being a means to thwart it than a mathematician has of the result of two times two, applied...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
... Our Bushmen wished to leave us, and, as there was no use in trying to thwart these independent gentlemen, I paid them, and allowed them to go...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...He likewise took steps to thwart the traveller’s objects, though he did not treat him with any personal violence...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...He set on the thwart andbragged about what he’d do when hegot back to “Petey” again...
Various 「Ainslee's magazine, Volume 16, No. 2, September, 1905」
...The Partridge, though decorated with no brilliant colours, whichwould tend to thwart it in its habit of concealing itself among vegetationof the same general hue as itself, is a beautiful bird...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...As if to thwart him, the child then began, Mrs...
R. S. Surtees 「Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour」
...He is protected as sacred and allowed moreliberty than is sometimes either convenient or pleasant, as heis apt to become obtrusive and his devotees fear to checkor thwart him...
Various 「Natural History in Anecdote」
...And this fact throws an interesting light on the way in which the social order, or a despotic government, may thwart for a time the natural course of development...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
...No one, who did not know me, would try to thwart my will; whereas you are annoying and tormenting me...
Chretien DeTroyes 「Four Arthurian Romances」
...This officer was a sort of censor of new publications, andwhen he was applied to on the subject of printing his work, Galileo soonfound that attempts had previously been made to thwart his views...
David Brewster 「The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler」
... Was she always to be a disturberof his peace? Was she always to thwart him like this?...
Ethel Sybil Turner 「Seven Little Australians」
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