Your servant gives me a dreadful account of your raving unmanageableness. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
So "Marse Henry" had put him on the 200 acre Oglethorpe plantation as apprentice to training of the farm horses whose large unmanageableness he found more manageable than the dainty china of the banker's house. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1] Reference
There was one great steer in particular, reckoned to be ten or twelve years old, quite a celebrity in fact on account of his unmanageableness, his independence and boldness, which we had frequently seen and tried to secure, but hitherto without success. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference
The truth is, unmanageableness when in hand is the only fault of my kite. From Wordnik.com. [The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole] Reference
Under such management, the rod may come to be the only alternative to absolute unmanageableness and anarchy. From Wordnik.com. [Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young Or, the Principles on Which a Firm Parental Authority May Be Established and Maintained, Without Violence or Anger, and the Right Development of the Moral and Mental Capacities Be Promoted by Methods in Harmony with the Structure and the Characteristics of the Juvenile Mind] Reference
In a moment the animal stood still and quiet, and his quick panting and reeking condition was all that remained of his previous unmanageableness. From Wordnik.com. [Undine] Reference
For those things, whose unmanageableness, even when represented on paper, makes one gasp with a sort of amused horror, were manned by men who are his direct professional ancestors. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of the Sea] Reference
Suliote corps took place, preparatory to the expedition; and after much of the usual deception and unmanageableness on their part, every obstacle appeared to be at length surmounted. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals] Reference
And Rollo wore a look which I think a woman does not dislike to see on a face she loves, even though its decisions be against her; there was sweetness enough in it, also unmanageableness!. From Wordnik.com. [The Gold of Chickaree] Reference
He, too, turned his glance from her, biting his lip to hide the insincerity of his smile, irritated at her unmanageableness, and in his heart valuing her more highly that she was so hard to win. From Wordnik.com. [The Emigrant Trail] Reference
This is one of the things that has given nervous diseases such a bad name for unmanageableness and incurableness, and that for years made us regard their study as so nearly hopeless, so far as any helpful results were concerned. From Wordnik.com. [Preventable Diseases] Reference
Having made trial of the strong arm of the mob as an instrument for putting down the Abolitionists, and been quite confounded by its unexpected energy and unmanageableness, Boston was well disposed to lay the weapon aside as much too dangerous for use. From Wordnik.com. [William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist] Reference
Yet a thorough view of the wisdom and rectitude of this assembly disposes me more to hope they will find some means of surmounting the difficulty of their numbers, than to fear that yielding to the unmanageableness of debate in such a crowd, and to the fatigue of the experiment, they may be driven to adopt, in the gross, some one of the many projects which will be proposed. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3] Reference
The establishment of a national parliamentary assembly antedated the period of union with Denmark (1397-1523); for it was in 1359 that King Magnus, embarrassed by the unmanageableness of the nobility and obliged to fall back upon the support of the middle classes, summoned representatives of the towns to appear before the king along with the nobles and clergy, and thus constituted the first Swedish Riksdag. From Wordnik.com. [The Governments of Europe] Reference
Lovelace’s delirious unmanageableness, and extravagant design, had they not all interposed. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
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