untowardness
Example Sentences
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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 Anthony Trollope
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 Henry Sydnor Harrison
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
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
He murmured against that untowardness which, after condemning him to long sorrows on the land, now pursued him with added griefs on the deep.
From Israel Potter by Herman Melville
