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
If circumstances render it impossible for the rope to be kept taut by itself, the men behind should gather it up round their hands,205 and not allow it to incommode those in advance.
From The Ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper
Once, as the battle swayed in his direction, he even moved his traps under the seat, lest their bulk should incommode the combatants.
From The Son of his Father by Ridgwell Cullum
We first incommode with our presence the governor of the Cyclades, a patriotic Greek, who speaks good English and good sense.
From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe
For he does not wish to disturb or incommode his sleeping wife, whose dark eyes are still closed, or to awaken any of his three little children.
From A Day with Robert Schumann by May Clarissa Gillington Byron
“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
It was accompanied with a violent wind, which greatly incommoded us.
From The Niagara River by Archer Butler Hulbert
"But are you sure, my dear Agnes, that you will not be incommoded," kindly inquired Mrs. Legare.
From The Haunted Homestead A Novel by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
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
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
All were charged with disturbing the peace through crowding, obstructing or incommoding, police spokeswoman Eva Malecki told The Times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2019
Dozens of people were charged with crowding, obstructing or incommoding, including 78 who were arrested in the Senate office buildings.
From Fox News ● Oct. 5, 2018
The manner of securing them without much incommoding their march, is ingeniously contrived.
From Samboe; or, The African Boy by Mary Ann Hedge
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