untowardness

Example Sentences

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But that is his goodness ever ready to do, unless there be hindrance through the untowardness of our own froward will.

From Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by Stevens, Monica

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

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

Hajw—Satires on the hypocrisy of the �unco' guid,� the impiety of the pious, the ignorance of the learned, and the untowardness of his own generation.

From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar

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