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
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
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
It is most agreeable to be told, by a writer very eminent both for wisdom and for culture, that our untowardness was a hopeful sign.
From The Intellectual Life by Hamerton, Philip Gilbert
She allowed not her thoughts to go astray, striving continually for a pure and meek heart, begging forgiveness for her untowardness toward her husband.
From Mistress Penwick by Payne, Dutton
