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Miss Earle had noticed the depressing effect which even the sight of the blonde lady exercised on Morris the day before, and she looked forward, therefore, to rather an uncompanionable breakfast.

From In a Steamer Chair and Other Stories by Barr, Robert

But White Fang, uncompanionable, solitary, morose, scarcely looking to right or left, redoubtable, forbidding of aspect, remote and alien, was accepted as an equal by his puzzled elders. 

From White Fang by London, Jack

The other servants, too, were not only utterly uncompanionable, but deeply jealous of her, resenting her gentle breeding, her careful speech, her dainty personal ways, her room to herself, her loyalty to her mistress.

From The Mystery of Mary by Hill, Grace Livingston

So uncompanionable, indeed, was he that he stepped outside to the southward terrace as though to avoid these others, and, but for the cards, the observant portier might have thought them strangers to each other.

From A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade by King, Charles

What an uncompanionable disagreeable person he must have been! 

From The Way of All Flesh by Butler, Samuel




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