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inclement
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  • Full soon the inclemency of heaven I feel, Nor had these shoulders covering, but of steel.†  (source)
  • Specifically, he believed in the inevitable influence of clement and inclement weathers.†  (source)
  • Hiking is the one summer leisure activity that absolutely can't be done in inclement weather.†  (source)
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  • When the weather was inclement, we played at my house—and since the weather in New Hampshire is inclement most of the time, we played most of the time at my house.†  (source)
  • Here, then, I retreated and lay down happy to have found a shelter, however miserable, from the inclemency of the season, and still more from the barbarity of man.†  (source)
    inclemency = bad weather
  • It was something San Piedro prided itself on, the fact that its men had the courage to fish alone even in inclement weather.†  (source)
  • This day I secured my goods from the inclemency of the weather.†  (source)
  • At that hour of the morning there was not a soul on the wooden platform, its roof eaten away by inclement weather and ants.†  (source)
  • The mighty cork trees, unenforced save of their own courtesy, shed the broad light bark that served at first to roof the houses supported by rude stakes, a protection against the inclemency of heaven alone.†  (source)
  • Back in Danbury Sister Platte had used the hall as a makeshift treadmill during inclement weather.†  (source)
  • and furthermore, if so be that they would give such punched and dagged clothing to the poor people, it is not convenient to wear for their estate, nor sufficient to boot [help, remedy] their necessity, to keep them from the distemperance [inclemency] of the firmament.†  (source)
  • Despite the inclement weather, the city's residents were gathering in district plazas or along the broad avenues to celebrate the great tournament, which would conclude that evening.†  (source)
  • This was accorded with more good-will than it was accepted: for Partridge would rather have submitted to the utmost inclemency of the weather than have trusted to the clemency of those whom he took for hobgoblins; and the poor post-boy was now infected with the same apprehensions; but they were both obliged to follow the example of Jones; the one because he durst not leave his horse, and the other because he feared nothing so much as being left by himself.†  (source)
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