untowardness

Example Sentences

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It would require much patient continuance in well doing in those who attempted it, and they must be prepared, perhaps, to meet with some untowardness and much disappointment.” 

From Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement by Smith, George

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

It is most agreeable to be told, by a writer very eminent both for wisdom and for culture, that our untowardness was a hopeful sign.

From The Intellectual Life by Hamerton, Philip Gilbert

She launched with zest upon the somewhat unoriginal thesis, and Cally relapsed into her own thoughts, which were full of rebellion at the bitter untowardness of her fate....

From V. V.'s Eyes by Harrison, Henry Sydnor

As to this untowardness I mean, frankly, to inquire of your Mother—whom I am already in communication with on the subject of going to see her to talk about you!

From The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II by James, Henry