uncompanionable
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But since that ill-starr'd day at Regensburg, Which plunged him headlong from his dignity, A gloomy uncompanionable spirit, Unsteady and suspicious, has possess'd him.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno
She was never much given to reading at any time, and now books were not to be had; Sydney was so taken up with studying German, that she was quite uncompanionable.
From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James
So uncompanionable, indeed, was he that he stepped outside to the southward terrace as though to avoid these others, and, but for the cards, the observant portier might have thought them strangers to each other.
From A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade by King, Charles
It must come from one who could not sleep, and was solacing himself with sweet sounds, breathing a soul into the uncompanionable silence!
From Donal Grant, by George MacDonald by MacDonald, George
Instead of a living, loving will, manifest in the struggle with present conditions, Stoicism sees only an impersonal law, rigid, fixed, fatal, unalterable, unimprovable, uncompanionable.
From The Five Great Philosophies of Life by Hyde, William De Witt
