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
I would that had been sent that would mend thy untowardness and bring thy temper to a comelier mould.
From Mistress Penwick by Dutton Payne
His hating him was the untowardness for which Strether had been best prepared; he hadn't expected the boy's actual form to give him more to do than his imputed.
From The Ambassadors by Henry James
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 George Smith
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
