untowardness

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

That life is care and trouble and untowardness?

From Ladies-In-Waiting by Curtiss, Christine Tucke