untowardness
Example Sentences
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I hope she does not dwell on the seeming untowardness of the event, or that she can take it into a larger philosophy than that of the New York press.
From Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter by Dewey, Mary Elizabeth
So was it—would at least have been But through untowardness of fate; For polity was then too strong: He came an age too late.
From Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 by Shairp, John Campbell
But we believe, in spite of this, that all this untowardness will yield to the gradual wooing of circumstances, and that it is to May, and not December, that we are to look forward.
From The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays by Lowell, James Russell
They all talked to her as though she was simply obstinate and a fool, not perceiving, as she did herself, that the untowardness of her fortune had prescribed this destiny for her.
From Lady Anna by Trollope, Anthony
With large open hearts, the untowardness of things present, the miseries of the past, the mischief, stupidity, and error which reign in the world, at times almost crush your melancholy men.
From Friends in Council — First Series by Helps, Arthur, Sir
