untowardness

Example Sentences

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It was probably that untowardness in his outward appearance, which never afterwards left him, that made his schoolfellows consider him a dull boy, fit only to be the butt of their ridicule.

From Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives by Cary, Henry Francis

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

But that is his goodness ever ready to do, unless there be hindrance through the untowardness of our own froward will.

From Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by Stevens, Monica

So was it—would at least have been But through untowardness of fate; For polity was then too strong:    He came an age too late.

From Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 by Shairp, John Campbell

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