incommodiousness

It rained all day, and gave Dr Johnson an impression of that incommodiousness of climate in the west, of which he has taken notice in his Journey; but, being well accommodated, and furnished with variety of books, he was not dissatisfied.

Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

The incommodiousness of the Scotch windows keeps them very closely shut.

A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland 2003

Their courage was chiefly improved from not knowing that the motive of the Romans 'retreat was the incommodiousness of the ground, so that they imagined themselves objects of terror, and supposed that they were pursuing men who fled through fear.

The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 Titus Livius

Is it not invariably the purpose of a Chapel to supply the absence or incommodiousness of the parish church?

Notes and Queries, Number 21, March 23, 1850 Various

It rained all day, and gave Dr. Johnson an impression of that incommodiousness of climate in the west, of which he has taken notice in his Journey [1019]; but, being well accommodated, and furnished with variety of books, he was not dissatisfied.

Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

How know we but that the incommodiousness of the place wherein he was kept may have occasioned his death?

The History of Thomas Ellwood Written by Himself Ellwood, Thomas, 1639-1713 1885

It was an old-fashioned place, moreover, in the moral attribute that the partners in the House were proud of its smallness, proud of its darkness, proud of its ugliness, proud of its incommodiousness.

A Tale of Two Cities 1859

It was an old-fashioned place, moreover, in the moral attribute that the partners in the House were proud of its smallness, proud of its darkness, proud of its ugliness, proud of its incommodiousness.

A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1841

_ As usual, full of contrivances that are impracticable, and improvements that are retrograde; forming, altogether, a whimsical instance of the confusion of arrangement, the delay of expedition, the incommodiousness of accommodation, and the infernal trouble of endeavouring to save it -- he has now a score or two of workmen about him, and intends pulling down some apartments in the east wing of the Castle.

Speed the Plough A Comedy, In Five Acts; As Performed At The Theatre Royal, Covent Garden Thomas Morton 1801

The 26th we passed through woods and over mountains, torn with bushes and tired by the incommodiousness of an almost impassable way, in which many camels perished, and many persons, wearied of these difficulties, went away to Agra, and all complained.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Robert Kerr 1784