untowardness
Example Sentences
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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 Henry James
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 Philip Gilbert Hamerton
So was it—would at least have been But through untowardness of fate; For polity was then too strong: He came an age too late.
From Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 by John Campbell Shairp
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 Charles Duke Yonge
Her idea was that all her misery had come from the untowardness of the meeting.
From The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
