How To Use Impedimenta In A Sentence
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‘I want to prepare for my big raid,’ he explained on October 19 to a colonel in charge of supply, and with that Sherman arranged to send his impedimenta to the rear.
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One must begin to question all of the bureaucratic impedimenta that a government-run space exploration program must carry with it when it tries to venture off the surface of the Earth.
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These are all hinderances, clogs, and burdens, and, according to the proper Latin word, they are called impedimenta bellica.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.
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To effect this, the army should march, crossing the Koharee disencumbered of the 'impedimenta' of war, before daylight the 29th inst.
The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
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I visited I-knit as a half-term treat a few weeks ago and was impressed by the range of publications and impedimenta on sale, more really than the yarn. - for example, a shawl pin with an ebony stick to secure it.
St Patrick's Day
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I followed behind somewhat encumbered by our impedimenta.
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It's an unavoidably communal experience; no matter how pointedly you pile shopping bags and assorted impedimenta on the seat beside you, sooner or later someone's going to insist on initiating a conversation.
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Somehow or another all concerned manage to avoid braining each other with guitars, mic stands and various other musical impedimenta.
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Fifteen ponies are purchased to carry the baggage of the regiment; and the allowance for officers is only sufficient to allow Henry and me a bullock-trunk apiece, – rather different to our notions of the "impedimenta" of a regiment!
Journal Kept During The Russian War: From The Departure Of The Army From England In April 1854, To The Fall Of Sebastopol
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What happens when someone who's had a sex change, who is already receiving domestic partner benefits at work for his male partner, goes through sex reassignment surgery and acquires the physical impedimenta of the opposite sex?
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The bulk of the passengers 'luggage had been shipped in dock, and passed down into the after-hold upon the top of the cargo, in order that it might be out of the way but easily come-at-able if required during the voyage; each one, however, as he or she came up the ship's side and stepped in on deck, bore in his or her hand one or more bundles of wraps, deck-chairs, and other _impedimenta_.
The Pirate Island A Story of the South Pacific
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And even then, this detail is often lost, an accent overwhelmed by the loud plastic awnings, hawkers' kerb-spreads and squatters' impedimenta that define the metropolitan street.
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impedimenta" thus bring to the race that has them a wealth of life both physical and psychical, practical and ideal, that is otherwise unattainable.
Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic
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Troops turned in surplus property, ‘useless impedimenta,’ and waited.
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Kruger's Post, north of Lydenburg, and here the enemy succeeded in capturing 35 men and a quantity of "impedimenta;" the field-cornet in question, although warned in time, having taken no proper precautions.
My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War
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So having wandered round the battlefield inspecting the impedimenta of the combatants, we come at last to the question from which it all started.
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The economics and limitations of technology (with some enormous intellectual property issues on the side) are serious, if temporary, impedimenta.
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Fortunately the day was overcast, so we didn't have a scorching sun in which to carry around tiny twins and all their essential equipment, apparatuses, impedimenta, equipage and whatnot.
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The kitchen must have as much space as possible for herbs, spices, pots and pans, cook books and all my other impedimenta.
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Zulu soldiers were followed by young herd boys, called Izindibi/udibi, carrying the army's impedimenta in the rear or on the flanks of the advance.
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The inconvenience and delay occasioned by the care of so much baggage caused the Romans to call it impedimenta.
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Triumphs are claimed, disasters are someone else's concerns, and if there's trouble, there are union rules or some of the other impedimenta to the full implementation of ideas such as disclosure, transparency and responsibility.
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'Not exactly,' said Guy; 'the "impedimenta" are, some at Varenna, some at the inn with Arnaud.'
The Heir of Redclyffe
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And time too bursts back into my consciousness with all its impedimenta of mind and matter, rule and law.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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As I carried considerable weight in my gown, about ten pounds of silver, our two revolvers, the telescope, our silver-lined tsamba basins and dry stockings for us both, Mr. Rijnhart cautioned me not to fall off, for with such impedimenta about me he could do nothing to save me.
With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
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Huic rogationi partim conscii sibi, alii ex partium invidia pericula metuentes, quoniam aperte resistere non poterant, quin illa et alia talia placere sibi faterentur, [238] occulte per amicos ac maxime per homines nominis Latini et socios Italicos impedimenta parabant.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
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Fascinating it was too: almost no plants, entirely taken over by garden impedimenta and decorative items for the home.
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You will see that there is a lot of impedimenta in even the highest level language.
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A few hours later, he had labored his way into the depths of the wilderness of miscellaneous impedimenta and found himself facing a cloudy window.
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Many ladies entirely spoil the sit of the skirts by retaining the usual impedimenta of petticoats.
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Anyway, we went for a curry and it was good to see him again, although I would have preferred it if your mother hadn't come; and I think he might have preferred that too, having managed to evade his own impedimenta for the evening.
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Cultural practices have survived or fallen only in part because of their effect on the strength of the group, and those which have survived are usually burdened with unnecessary impedimenta.
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Thanks to the kindness of Captain Buckley, of the Scots 'Fusileer Guards, and Colonel Somerset, who lent us means of conveyance for our "impedimenta," I was able to move up in one day.
Journal Kept During The Russian War: From The Departure Of The Army From England In April 1854, To The Fall Of Sebastopol
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However, a comment from him on his radio show has forced a different take on life's impedimenta.
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He observed that the ancients allowed of little baggage, which they very properly called "impedimenta;" whereas the moderns burthen themselves with it to such a degree, that 50,000 of our present soldiers are allowed as much baggage as was formerly thought sufficient for all the armies of the Roman empire.
Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica
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They filled two trolleys with crockery, kettles, pots and pans and all the other impedimenta needed to kit out a new home.
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There was little benefit from carping about the organizational source of the disciplinary impedimenta.
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Somehow or another all concerned manage to avoid braining each other with guitars, mic stands and various other musical impedimenta.
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Fortunately the day was overcast, so we didn't have a scorching sun in which to carry around tiny twins and all their essential equipment, apparatuses, impedimenta, equipage and whatnot.
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Their 'impedimenta' were thus safely transported to the opposite bank, the whole process occupying about an hour.
Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland
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According to Cornell University biologists, the reason for success of this technique may be that the fishing line mimics the "impedimenta" warning strings spiders construct near their webs to keep birds from flying through them and destroying their work.
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