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

She allowed not her thoughts to go astray, striving continually for a pure and meek heart, begging forgiveness for her untowardness toward her husband.

From Mistress Penwick by Payne, Dutton

His hating him was the untowardness for which Strether had been best prepared; he hadn't expected the boy's actual form to give him more to do than his imputed.

From The Ambassadors by James, Henry

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

The existing administration "had, in fact, by an unaccountable obstinacy and untowardness of circumstances, been deprived of all opportunity" of showing its capacity or its intentions.

From The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860 by Yonge, Charles Duke