As the late Robin Cook, who had served as Foreign secretary to Blair, wrote sarcastically in his 2003 memoir: "I never once knew No 10 [home of the British Prime Minister] to come up with any decision that would be incommoding to British Aerospace." ❋ Unknown (2009)
Mrs Mears, who, though more frightened than hurt, readily accepted it, notwithstanding, to make way for her without incommoding Mrs Charlton, she was forced to get out herself. ❋ Unknown (2008)
After repeated pressings on the part of Mr. Pott, and repeated protestations on that of Mr. Pickwick that he could not think of incommoding or troubling his amiable wife, it was decided that it was the only feasible arrangement that could be made. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The three columns were very slow in forming themselves, after there march our cannon incommoding them extremely. ❋ De Brantigny........................ (2007)
The thin pale-faced man, whom their good-nature had brought into their society, looked out of place as well as out of spirits; sate on the edge of his seat, and kept the chair at two feet distance from the table; thus incommoding himself considerably in conveying the victuals to his mouth, as if by way of penance for partaking of them in the company of his superiors. ❋ Unknown (2007)
But she was back at her workstation, bent over the coffee table reading fantasy comics without a zap or flicker of emotion, not making a nuisance of herself, not incommoding me by the disturbance of a single atom. ❋ Howard Jacobson (2006)
The fellow protested, with great humility, that their being overturned was owing to the failure of the axle-tree, and not to his want of care or dexterity in driving; though rather than be thought the cause of incommoding him, he would inquire for a post-chaise, in which he might depart for Brussels immediately. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Indeed, I have known a Gascon, whose limbs were eloquent as his tongue: he never mentioned the word sleep without reclining his head upon his hand; when he had occasion to talk of a horse, he always started up and trotted across the room, except when he was so situated that he could not stir without incommoding the company, and in that case he contented himself with neighing aloud. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Mr. Elton was to take the drawing to London, chuse the frame, and give the directions; and Emma thought she could so pack it as to ensure its safety without much incommoding him, while he seemed mostly fearful of not being incommoded enough. ❋ Unknown (2004)
I am abject myself; but whensoever I revisit the haunts of men clad in the few light incommoding clothes that rationalism ordains, I rejoice and gloat over the slavery of those who have failed to catch even glimpses of the loveliness of liberty, who are yet afeared of opinion — “that sour-breathed hag.” ❋ Unknown (2003)
But, a bundle of papers incommoding him, he raised his hand, and with a last flash of the old heat crumpled notes and jottings to balls and tossed them to the floor. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Yet when the Pharsalians grew troublesome to him, by pressing upon his army, and incommoding his passage, he led out five hundred horse, and in person fought and routed them, setting up a trophy under the mount Narthacius. ❋ Plutarch (2003)
The ultimate apotheosis would appear to be that of a man sitting quite still, nor daring to stir for fear of disturbing a fly, nor to eat for fear of incommoding a microbe. ❋ 1874-1936 (1990)
For this incommoding guest of a day, they pillage their garden, bully their children and servants, and neglect their work. ❋ Charles Wagner (N/A)
Soon after this, describing what it had become towards the close of the thirteenth century, Matthew of Westminster wrote: "Its boundaries were so ample, containing within its precincts three carrucates of land, and having so many princely buildings, that three potent sovereigns, with their retinues, might have been accommodated with lodgings here at the same time without incommoding one another." ❋ Herbert Story (N/A)
"And that veil -- surely that is incommoding?" suggested the suave voice, and she felt the touch of his hands on her hair where the misty veil was secured. ❋ Mary Hastings Bradley (N/A)
Bonaparte, and often by signs or words directed the sailors to avoid incommoding him: He sometimes noticed this conduct, and remarked that youthful hearts were always prone to generous instincts. ❋ Various (N/A)
Not often do we find such men, not often do we see the rich incommoding themselves for the poor. ' ❋ Edmund Mitchell (N/A)
