untowardness
Example Sentences
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But we believe, in spite of this, that all this untowardness will yield to the gradual wooing of circumstances, and that it is to May, and not December, that we are to look forward.
From The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays by Lowell, James Russell
Hajw—Satires on the hypocrisy of the �unco' guid,� the impiety of the pious, the ignorance of the learned, and the untowardness of his own generation.
From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar
It would require much patient continuance in well doing in those who attempted it, and they must be prepared, perhaps, to meet with some untowardness and much disappointment.”
From Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement by Smith, George
Her idea was that all her misery had come from the untowardness of the meeting.
From The Last Chronicle of Barset by Trollope, Anthony
I would that had been sent that would mend thy untowardness and bring thy temper to a comelier mould.
From Mistress Penwick by Payne, Dutton
