inclemency

Example Sentences

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It offers no protection against inclemency of the weather.

From Time Magazine Archive

They were also night and day exposed to the inclemency of the weather, and yet loved so much the independence in which they lived, that no one murmured.

From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Thornbury, Walter

In all the vessels of the king's fleet, the awning was then taken down which served to protect the deck from the inclemency of the weather.

From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Ingemann, Bernhard Severin

At all events, we meet with similar conditions in several monuments, which for ages have braved the inclemency of recurring seasons.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 by Whymper, Frederick

Sozomen in praising this mortification, assures us that this exposure to the inclemency of the weather, did so harden and tan him that his beard could not make its way through the skin.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)