incommode
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I submitted that no thought could be further from Dr. Trefusis’s intent than to incommode such an excellent hostess.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Nor will my presence incommode you for long.
From Fairies Afield by Mrs. (Mary Louisa) Molesworth
Jacob and Ivas were going to leave, fearing to incommode them, when Lucie looked up and saw Ivas.
From The Jew by Jo?zef Ignacy Kraszewski
Meanwhile, I will leave you, for you may have a thousand messages to give monsieur for your relations and friends, commissions to intrust to him, and I should be very sorry to incommode you.
From Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 by Charles Paul de Kock
Mavis, in the middle, sat as far back as possible, so as not to incommode Uncle David's left arm as he drove, while Merle sat a little forward, to give extra room.
From A Fortunate Term by Angela Brazil
“He can, indeed, on a rainy day, devour half a dozen volumes of summer reading, and be no more incommoded than when he swallows as many jellies and puffs at the fashionable confectioners.”
From Washington Post ● May 26, 2020
But his genius once awakened, his faults were shaken off as a garment that would have incommoded the flight of his imagination .
From Time Magazine Archive
“I wouldn’t have incommoded none of you, if I’d had my way.”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
Every Night, Sundays not excepted here are Plays or Operas; and tho' the Weather has been hot, and the Houses full, one is not incommoded by the Heat so much as with us in Winter.
From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Chester E. Jorgenson
The next morning showed us a rough sea, the vessel pitching and tossing, the ladies mostly sea sick—we ourselves well and about, but much incommoded by heat and want of room.
From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe
A police spokesperson said that Mr Cohen was charged with crowding, obstructing or incommoding - a misdemeanour offence often used in civil disobedience cases in the US capital.
From BBC ● May 15, 2025
Six people appeared before the District of Columbia Superior Court on Tuesday alone to face charges of crowding, obstructing or incommoding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2024
On Wednesday, the protesters pleaded guilty to crowding, obstructing or incommoding, court documents show, and received suspended sentences of 30 days in jail.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2020
The actress was charged with "crowding, obstructing or incommoding."
From Fox News ● Oct. 15, 2019
One of the young men even amused himself by incommoding me, as was then very easy; and that not from ill-nature, but mere clodlike incapacity to think, for he expected me to join the laugh.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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