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As Peter attempts to show his uninterested agent some graphs, he’s thwarted: “The surface of the table was taken up with all sorts of paraphernalia superfluous, not to say impedimental, to ratiocination.”

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2018

In the demolition of impedimental fragments of wall, buttress, and pavement he has seen strange sights.

From Rambles in Dickens' Land by Allbut, Robert

It flowed evenly, sometimes stopping against an impedimental stone of argument—occasionally gushing with iridescent bubbles from the force of energetic collision.

From Love's Usuries by Creswicke, Louis