incommodity
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Howbeit, I purpose now to consider first imprisonment as imprisonment alone, without any other incommodity besides.
From Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by Monica Stevens
What a clap of thunder to Excellency Hanbury; his masterpiece found suddenly a superfluity, an incommodity!
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 17 by Thomas Carlyle
We will, I say, therefore begin by considering what manner of pain or incommodity we should reckon imprisonment to be of itself and of its own nature alone.
From Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by Monica Stevens
He could cease to think of them only when he ceased to think of his loss and privation, and the days had as yet but scantily lightened the weight of this incommodity.
From The American by Henry James
When an wholesome law is propounded, he crosseth it either by open or close opposition, not for any incommodity or inexpedience, but because it proceeded from any mouth besides his own.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
As soon as my incommodities allowed me to think of past occurrences, I failed not to inquire what had become of the odd little guest whom Hollingsworth had been the medium of introducing among us.
From The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
No man lives too long who lives to do with spirit and suffer with resignation what Providence pleases to command or inflict; but, indeed, they are sharp incommodities which beset old age.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
I liked the very incommodities of the place; I am not sure that I did not find a certain mystic salubrity in the bad ventilation.
From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various
But what incommodities and troubles chaunced vnto me in these vyages, as hunger, thirst, colde, heate, warres, captiuitie, terrours, and dyuers other suche daungers, I will declare by the way in theyr due places.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 by Robert Kerr
Yet then consider whether any incommodities be so joined with them that a man might almost as well lack both as have both.
From Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by Monica Stevens
