| 单词 | incommodious |
| 例句 | Within, the stockade was cramped, some five hundred men gathered in a small and incommodious yard between tents. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z But sitting yourself on an incommodious crate does not sound like fun. At Momofuku Nishi, David Chang’s Magic Shows a Little Wear 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z The coastal landscape is pretty in a wild, incommodious way, rather like Maine. Where the Swedes Go to Be (Really) Alone 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z What is he that can reckon all the incommodious life that the most foolish soldiers suffer in the field? Against War 2012-04-21T02:00:21.397Z It was very small, very dark, very ugly, very incommodious. Rambles in Dickens' Land 2012-01-25T03:00:36.463Z It makes but a mean Appearance, and the Apartments are low, incommodious, and very much exposed to the Sun. The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. 2012-01-07T03:00:17.127Z The City of Ludwigsbourg is as irregular as the Palace; and its Scituation, which is very disadvantageous, will always render it a very incommodious Town, because of the unevenness of the Ground. The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. 2012-01-06T03:00:25.023Z Upon an incommodious seat Arranged in form of a pagoda Caron presents a magistrate, By his huge wig and linen collar. Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence 2011-11-11T03:00:25.690Z He foresaw a difficulty in the lack of small currency, tobacco which was the only specie, being in the governor's words "very incommodious to receive small payments in, and of very uncertain value." The History of the Post Office in British North America 2011-08-31T02:01:37.743Z At Newgate was a small, incommodious, and fever-haunted prison for criminals; and at Ludgate was another prison, appropriated to debtors, trespassers, and those who committed contempt of Court. A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern 2011-08-19T02:00:15.893Z He complains that his house at Mortlake was too public for his studies, and incommodious for receiving the numerous foreign literati who resorted to him. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Many things which please or afflict others, will appear to us too frivolous to engage our attention; and we shall lose by degrees that sensibility and delicacy of passion which is so incommodious. Essays 2011-05-19T02:00:06.077Z Internally the house was incommodious and crowded to uncomfortable excess, and its surroundings externally were desolate and lonesome. Humours of Irish Life 2011-04-19T02:00:16.057Z The apartment into which the young noble had been thus ushered, seemed to have been hastily fitted up with such resources of a lady's chamber as the cumbrous and incommodious fashion of the day offered. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z The path was well beaten, but rendered incommodious by the large stones which lay along it. Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 Vol. II 2011-03-24T02:00:13.247Z The port, however, is at a considerable distance from the town, and is shallow and incommodious. The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] 2011-03-23T02:00:19.910Z The arrangements for these objects were at once clumsy and incommodious. Memorials of the Sea My Father: Being Records of the Adventurous Life of the Late William Scoresby, Esq. of Whitby 2011-02-07T03:00:26.033Z A small silver bird, or a large klippe, was attached to the king as a badge of honour, instead of the large gilt bird, which was too heavy and incommodious to carry. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. Much talent and still more jollity were wasted in that incommodious gallery. Maximina Their heavy, incommodious cargoes strike right and left, breaking everything before them. My Trip Around the World August, 1895-May, 1896 Such therefore only will be subject to this Regulation, whose Habitations by the Closeness of them are in all Respects very incommodious for diseased Persons. A Discourse on the Plague This was neither a grand nor a comfortable house; within as without it was antique, rambling, and incommodious. Shirley The temperature is high, and it would no doubt at first be incommodious. Arrows of Freethought No doubt the seat was rather incommodious, but why should a ghost sit at all? Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) He complained that his house at Mortlake was too public for his studies, and incommodious for receiving the numerous foreign literati who resorted to him. Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters I do not say that the place is incommodious internally. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge It will be less incommodious, more fitted to this place, and in a very short time Zeus will forget the original. Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy After stumbling over a footstool, and being incommoded by other "incommodious commodities," she at length sinks exhausted upon a sofa, just opposite to a "mirror that reflected." The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 The best are kept by Frenchmen, though even those are incommodious and expensive. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests If he will profit by this experience I will gladly suffer the incommodious ride.” The Fighting Edge She was rotten to the core, incommodious, and ill-provided, badly manned, and worse commanded. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 An Italian villa is very charming for a brief spring, malarious in summer and autumn, and incommodiously furnished for every season. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. "There were carpets on every floor, chairs that were moveable, mirrors that reflected, sofas to sink on, footstools to stumble over; in a word, all the incommodious commodities of my own cabin in Kildare street." The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 On the other hand the land journey is exceedingly expensive; and beyond France the trains are very incommodious as regards hours, speed, and connections. The Story of Eclipses It is true they do sometimes, for these reasons, go without the road, and ride or walk in very incommodious ways. The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.) But the price of building materials had been very high, and the average dwelling was very small and incommodious. Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska The houses are crowded and numerous, and even the palace does not present a more captivating aspect, for, though large, it is as incommodious as the worst. The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy The apparatus employed by Mr Lacon is very compact and simple, being fixed under the deck-seats, so as to be not in the least incommodious. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 453 Volume 18, New Series, September 4, 1852 The fires on the sand-dunes agitated him—perhaps also the unrest of his master, who with his own comfortable bed within a dozen yards, had chosen so incommodious a way of spending the night. Patsy Impure airs, restraint from exercise, unusual aliment, unwholesome or incommodious accommodations, and perturbed thoughts, were, at any time, sufficient to generate disease and to deprive him of life. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 It was small, incommodious, and plain; in no respect likely to excite the jealousy of a people peculiarly averse to all pomp or parade, even in their chief magistrate. The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815 A heavy rain made this mode of travelling now incommodious; so we embarked in a steam-packet, and after a short passage landed at Portsmouth. The Last Man When required, M. Bonneau sends his men to clean furniture at persons' houses, which would be rather incommodious to remove. How to Enjoy Paris in 1842 Intended to Serve as a Companion and Monitor, Containing Historical, Political, Commercial, Artistical, Theatrical And Statistical Information No chariot may descend80 Or charioteer fight there; strait are the bounds, And incommodious, and his death were sure. The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper Other salutations are very incommodious and painful; it requires great practice to enable a man to be polite in an island situated in the straits of the Sound. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 There's a little Greek trading steamer leaving for Marseilles to-morrow morning, but I'm afraid you would find her very incommodious. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-14 But courts incommodiously situated, in effect, deny justice; and a court partaking in the fruits of its own condemnation is a robber. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) It is difficult to pitch; it requires many tent-pegs; it has ropes radiating all round it, over which men and horses stumble; and it is incommodious and ugly. The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries Tullia.—For whom? me, madam? and am I to sit on that little incommodious sort of throne, so that my legs must hang down and become quite red? The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 566, September 15, 1832 In old times, the town of Kossir was built two leagues farther up the coast; but being found incommodious, especially as the harbour at that place was too small, it was removed to this place. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 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 It was then, compared to what it now is, but a gloomy and incommodious fortress, without even the security which encompassing fortifications might be supposed to yield. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 494, June 18, 1831 Though the heavy rains which fell at this season were both incommodious and distressing to us, they operated in our favour, as the enemy always relaxed their efforts against us during their continuance. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 04 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 It is, besides, incommodious for frequent study, and a very expensive and bulky way of making an herbarium. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden The first wife also distressed this adviser with a moving tale of her expulsion from a comfortable room into the incommodious wagon-box. The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West Displeasing company, incommodious apartments, filthiness, and riot, lost the circumstance by which they could most effectually disgust, when I was not compelled to remain with them. Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are Out of society, man is so much raw material, a capitalized tool, and often an incommodious and useless piece of furniture. What is Property? The scheme of the work is injudicious and incommodious; for what can be more absurd, than that one beast should counsel another to rest her faith upon a pope and council? Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 The flat was a small and incommodious one, but it was in a quiet street and not very far from Hampstead Heath. The Foolish Lovers By incommodious encampments and unwholesome stations, where courage is useless, and enterprise impracticable, fleets are silently dispeopled, and armies sluggishly melted away.' Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 A tyrant, who should he incredulous, would not be a more incommodious scourge to his subjects, than a theological autocrat, who should wield his sceptre to the misery of his people. The System of Nature, Volume 2 If the impulse is powerful, the will is strong, it makes him act vigorously, to obtain or to remove the object which appears to him either very agreeable or very incommodious. The System of Nature, Volume 1 And again, "If then anything inconvenient or incommodious be now, or was from the beginning in it, that certainly could not be hindered or removed even by infinite power, wisdom and goodness." The Fallen Star, or, the History of a False Religion by E.L. Bulwer; And, A Dissertation on the Origin of Evil by Lord Brougham In the construction of their dwelling-houses, the Mandingoes also conform to the general practice of the African nations on this part of the continent, contenting themselves with small and incommodious hovels. Life and Travels of Mungo Park in Central Africa The wharfs, with which our first practical acquaintance with the city commenced, are very narrow and incommodious. Life in the Clearings versus the Bush If a placid, tender soul, does not commit ravages in society, a mind agitated by incommodious passions, cannot fall to become, sooner or later, troublesome to his fellow creatures. The System of Nature, Volume 2 Sometimes it is in a state of incommodious inaction; sometimes it is the sport of the alternate shocks it undergoes. The System of Nature, Volume 1 There was some hesitation as to which of their two rooms at the hotel was the less incommodious, but the furniture had been magically changed. We Can't Have Everything Men's intentions in speaking are, or at least should be, to be understood; which cannot be without frequent explanations, demands, and other the like incommodious interruptions, where men do not follow common use. An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 2 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 3 and 4 By incommodious encampments and unwholesome stations, where courage is useless, and enterprise impracticable, fleets are silently dispeopled, and armies sluggishly melted away. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 06 Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons How can a corporeal being make an incorporeal being experience incommodious sensations? The System of Nature, Volume 2 Whence, if not justice, or charity towards others, yet love and pity of ourselves should persuade us to forbear it as disquietful, incommodious, and mischievous to us. Sermons on Evil-Speaking Gray's-inn, in the time of Henry VIII. was so incommodious, that "the ancients of this house were necessitated to lodge double." The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 269, August 18, 1827 Their rooms are the neglected, ill-furnished, incommodious ones—and the kitchen is the most cheerless and comfortless place in the house. American Woman's Home This free-born weather of our sea-girt isle of liberty is very incommodious to those who have neither carriages for wet feet, nor health for damp shoulders. The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 Whenever superstition was conformable to morality, it appeared incommodious, it was only followed when it either combatted ethics or destroyed them. The System of Nature, Volume 2 "So that possibly," said the Sub-Prior, "your private affairs rendered a foreign journey less incommodious to you than it might have been to the noble earl, your right worthy cousin?" The Monastery The place is small and incommodious, the pictures are out of sight and ill-lighted, the custodian is rapacious, the visitors are mutually intolerable, but the shabby little chapel is a palace of art. Italian Hours But courts incommodiously situated, in effect, deny justice, and a court partaking in the fruits of its own condemnation is a robber. Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America To have no one thing at hand, nothing Page 136 to eat, nowhere to sit—all were trifles, rather, I think, amusing than incommodious. The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 The same self-love, therefore, which renders men so incommodious to each other, taking a new and more convenient direction, produces the rules of justice, and is the first motive of their observance. A Treatise of Human Nature I may safely say that all the ostentation of our grandees is just like a train, of no use in the world, but horribly cumbersome and incommodious. Cowley's Essays I was glad to get out of the uproar, though not disposed to travel in an incommodious open carriage all night, had I thought that there was any chance of getting horses. Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark A dense whorl of many leaves would apparently be incommodious for a twining plant, and some authors assert that none have their leaves thus arranged; but a twining Siphomeris has whorls of three leaves. The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants I woke with stiff and cramped muscles from having slept long on the incommodious seat of a day coach. Strictly business: more stories of the four million The remedy, then, is not derived from nature, but from artifice; or more e properly speaking, nature provides a remedy in the judgment and understanding, for what is irregular and incommodious in the affections. A Treatise of Human Nature The roads beyond Edinburgh, as they are less frequented, must be expected to grow gradually rougher; but they were hitherto by no means incommodious. Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland This is a very tedious interruption, and the stopping and restarting of the ship very incommodious. Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North |
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