untowardness
Example Sentences
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With large open hearts, the untowardness of things present, the miseries of the past, the mischief, stupidity, and error which reign in the world, at times almost crush your melancholy men.
From Friends in Council — First Series by Helps, Arthur, Sir
It also flows from a fearful, cowardly spirit; there is nothing of greatness in it, except it be greatness of untowardness.
From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by Bunyan, John
I hope she does not dwell on the seeming untowardness of the event, or that she can take it into a larger philosophy than that of the New York press.
From Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter by Dewey, Mary Elizabeth
She launched with zest upon the somewhat unoriginal thesis, and Cally relapsed into her own thoughts, which were full of rebellion at the bitter untowardness of her fate....
From V. V.'s Eyes by Harrison, Henry Sydnor
He murmured against that untowardness which, after condemning him to long sorrows on the land, now pursued him with added griefs on the deep.
From Israel Potter by Melville, Herman
