1 He had lighted with such energy upon a thwart of his boat that his ivory leg had received a half-splintering shock.
2 Edna's desire to see Mademoiselle Reisz had increased tenfold since these unlooked-for obstacles had arisen to thwart it.
3 Led by three young Black Minorca pullets, the hens made a determined effort to thwart Napoleon's wishes.
4 Having resolved on flight Eustacia at times seemed anxious that something should happen to thwart her own intention.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November 5 When Turnus sees the Latins broken and fainting in the thwart issue of war, his promise claimed for fulfilment, and men's eyes pointed on him, his own spirit rises in unappeasable flame.
6 Then I bid leave the harbour and sit down at the thwarts; emulously my comrades strike the water, and sweep through the seas.
7 Haste and awake, O men, and sit down to the thwarts; shake out sail speedily.
8 They sit down at the thwarts, and their arms are tense on the oars; at full strain they wait the signal, while throbbing fear and heightened ambition drain their riotous blood.
9 The Fire-god rages with loose rein over thwarts and oars and hulls of painted fir.
10 The rest repair the thwarts and replace the ships' timbers that the flames had gnawed upon, and fit up oars and rigging, little in number, but alive and valiant for war.
11 Next he routs out the souls that sate on the long benches, and clears the thwarts, while he takes mighty Aeneas on board.
12 Broken oars and floating thwarts entangle them, and the ebbing wave sucks their feet away.
13 He laid himself down under the thwarts and waited, panting.
14 Draw lines of crime, of incompetency, of vice, as tightly and uncompromisingly as you will, for these things must be proscribed; but a color-line not only does not accomplish this purpose, but thwarts it.
15 Because she hated herself, she hated them all with the fury of the thwarted and humiliated love of sixteen.