"Dear Miss Saxon, you are one of the born helpers-some are born hinderers, you know.
"A Vanished Hand"
Sarah Doudney
To many of their enemies, perhaps to most of them in certain moods, Charles and Henrietta were not so much the hinderers of political freedom as the supporters of an alien and blasphemous system of religion.
"Henrietta Maria"
Henrietta Haynes
Lucretius Carus the philosopher and poet inueighing sore against the abuses of the superstitious religion of the Gentils, and recompting the wicked fact of king Agamemnon in sacrificing his only daughter Iphigenia, being a yoong damsell of excellent bewtie, to th'intent to please the wrathfull gods, hinderers of his nauigation, after he had said all, closed it vp in this one verse, spoken in Epiphonema.
"The Arte of English Poesie"
George Puttenham