unamiableness

Not but that pacific Florence, in her pride of victory, was beginning to show unamiableness of temper also, on her so equitable side.

Val d'Arno John Ruskin 1859

An English coal-fire, if we could see its honest face within doors, would compensate for all the unamiableness of the outside atmosphere; but we might ask for the sunshine of the New Jerusalem, with as much hope of getting it.

Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

An English coal-fire, if we could see its honest face within doors, would compensate for all the unamiableness of the outside atmosphere; but we might ask for the sunshine of the New Jerusalem, with as much hope of getting it.

Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Complete Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

Allowing, however, for the father's unamiableness in this one point, upon all intellectual ground both parents seem to have met very much upon a level.

Biographical Essays Thomas De Quincey 1822

In times more peaceable, and amongst a people more entirely civilized or more humanized by religion, it is even probable that he might have discharged his high duties with considerable distinction; but his lot was thrown upon stormy 10 times, and a most difficult crisis amongst tribes whose native ferocity was exasperated by debasing forms of superstition, and by a nationality as well as an inflated conceit of their own merit absolutely unparalleled; whilst the circumstances of their hard and trying position under 15 the jealous _surveillance_ of an irresistible lord paramount, in the person of the Russian Czar, gave a fiercer edge to the natural unamiableness of the Kalmuck disposition, and irritated its gloomier qualities into action under the restless impulses of suspicion and permanent distrust.

De Quincey's Revolt of the Tartars Thomas De Quincey 1822

a fiercer edge to the natural unamiableness of the Kalmuck disposition, and irritated its gloomier qualities into action under the restless impulses of suspicion and permanent distrust.

Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers — Volume 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822

a fiercer edge to the natural unamiableness of the Kalmuck disposition, and irritated its gloomier qualities into action under the restless impulses of suspicion and permanent distrust.

Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers Thomas De Quincey 1822