Lexicographical Neighbors of Obstructives
Literary usage of Obstructives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1878)
"... rest of the Session—The Budget—Sitting of July 31—The Irish Obstructives—Modifications
in the Rules of Debate.—Tactics of the Obstructives—Sir Stafford ..."
2. Francis Deák, Hungarian Statesman: A Memoir by Florence Mary Arnold-Forster (1880)
"... and restoration of harmony between Austria and Hungary—Vehement anti-Austrian
spirit in Hungary—Indignation against Hungarian obstructives in Austria ..."
3. Francis Deák, Hungarian Statesman: A Memoir by Florence Mary Arnold-Forster (1880)
"... and restoration of harmony between Austria and Hungary—Vehement anti-Austrian
spirit in Hungary—Indignation against Hungarian obstructives in Austria ..."
4. The Senses and the Intellect by Alexander Bain (1855)
"The obstructives that prevent the revival of the past through similitude may be
classed under the two heads of Faintness and Diversity. ..."
5. The Phreno-magnet, and Mirror of Nature: A Record of Facts, Experiments, and by Spencer Timothy Hall (1843)
"STOCKS AND THE DONCASTER Obstructives. A short time since, Mr. Stocks, of Sheffield,
a highly intellectual hut modest mesmeric experimentalist, ..."
6. Local Self-government Un-mystified: A Vindication of Common Sense, Human by Joshua Toulmin Smith (1857)
"Men like these, and not those "mob orators " whose importance it is convenient
to magnify in this Manifesto, are the real local obstructives, everywhere, ..."
7. Mr. Punch's History of Modern England by Charles Larcom Graves (1922)
"In a third Punch bids schoolmaster Northcote to take down not the words, but
something else of the obstructives. Commenting on the twenty-six ..."
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