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One Parliamentarian source therefore described the sack as "incommodious to ourselves".

Miss Austen is startled by the incommodious bleat of a cell phone.

"It does appear a trifle incommodious," he agreed dryly, picking up his own glass.

It was very small, very dark, very ugly, very incommodious.

She chuckled as she recounted incommodious moments, hoping someone would become interested and perhaps smile, at least.

The wharfs, with which our first practical acquaintance with the city commenced, are very narrow and incommodious.

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.

Records show that prior to the rebuilding in 1687, the Inn had been "so incommodious" that the "ancients" were forced to work two to a chamber.

He wrote that Paul Hindemith's music had "a style rather like that of some ponderously monumental and not wholly incommodious railway station."

The pursuivants dragged him from his bed, and, forcing him into a most incommodious vehicle, conveyed him to Stafford gaol, eleven miles distant.

Alfred B. Taylor used "senidenary" in his mid-1800s work on alternative number bases, although he rejected base 16 because of its "incommodious number of digits".

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.

Nevertheless, he agreed with Prior and Montagu that "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?"

I pray you will suffer no Concern for us, though; the House is at some distance from the River, and safely placed upon a Rise of Ground, such as to render us quite safe from even the most incommodious flooding.

Empress Elizabeth, however, found her mother's residence outdated and incommodious and in May 1752 asked her court architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli to demolish the old structure and replace it with a much grander edifice in a flamboyant Rococo style.

Breaca lay half conscious in the swimming, incommodious dark, lost to the pain in her head and her ribs and her kidneys, battered over and over by the sound of her daughter screaming her name and the sudden stop as someone held shut her mouth.

When we halted before the house of the Rector, a small and incommodious cabin, neither handsome nor more comfortable than those of his neighbors, I saw a man in the act of shoeing a horse, a hammer in his hand, and a leathern apron tied round his waist.

On the way the lady drew from her earring-hole a clay pipe, the husband lighted it, and it was handed to my unfortunate wife, who knew not how to refuse the incommodious favour; and when they were all come to our house, the pair sat down beside her on the floor, and improved the occasion with prayer.