untowardness

Example Sentences

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I would that had been sent that would mend thy untowardness and bring thy temper to a comelier mould.

From Mistress Penwick by Payne, Dutton

Her idea was that all her misery had come from the untowardness of the meeting.

From The Last Chronicle of Barset 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

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

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