To whom the king, 'How long wilt thou persist in thy frowardness?'. From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
How many are rendered useless in the world by their frowardness and discontent!. From Wordnik.com. [Of Temptation] Reference
Yet he cloth me frowardness; for thou hast not attained thine end but by means of him. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
The huntsman divined that he was telling of the frowardness and ingratitude of the "new Duchess.". From Wordnik.com. [Browning's Heroines] Reference
Doth he give them up unto their frowardness? doth he leave and forsake them under their distemper?. From Wordnik.com. [Pneumatologia] Reference
“I wish to abide with thee,” she answered and kissed his hand and vowed repentance from frowardness. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Well, if you go down on your knees, he says, and beg pardon for your frowardness who knows, I might relent yet. From Wordnik.com. [Monk's Hood]
King and the clergy but also of the Scottish Commons to Henry's overtures is generally represented as mere frowardness. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
But what the frowardness of man wished to efface, the divine benevolence changed to the manifestation of a mighty miracle. From Wordnik.com. [The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints] Reference
I can look back, and sometimes by your frowardness, sometimes by your crowing, know how it was with you eighteen years ago. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
The fourth behest, O my son, is Beware of wine-bibbing, for wine is the head of all frowardness and a fine solvent of human wits. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
King on account of thy frowardness to thy father's wife? and by. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
"I was sitting at mine ease but my frowardness brought me to unease.". From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
I have this weak and childish frowardness too, I cannot sit up, and yet am loth to go to bed. From Wordnik.com. [Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel] Reference
"I wish to abide with thee," she answered and kissed his hand and vowed repentance from frowardness. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
The mother excused and countenanced his frowardness, and the foolish father was obliged to give way. From Wordnik.com. [Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793] Reference
The girl left the chamber and, assuming the careless frowardness of a page, sauntered into the yard. From Wordnik.com. [In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls] Reference
And he answered, Yea, for it is written, With the pure thou shalt be pure, and with the froward thou shalt learn frowardness. '. From Wordnik.com. [Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 2] Reference
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