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  • noun Plural form of inclemency.

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Examples

  • Camacho's pots, and what I ate, drank, and slept in Basilio's house; all the rest of the time I have been sleeping on the hard ground under the open sky, exposed to what they call the inclemencies of heaven, keeping life in me with scraps of cheese and crusts of bread, and drinking water either from the brooks or from the springs we come to on these by – paths we travel. "

    Don Quixote 2002

  • Camacho's pots, and what I ate, drank, and slept in Basilio's house; all the rest of the time I have been sleeping on the hard ground under the open sky, exposed to what they call the inclemencies of heaven, keeping life in me with scraps of cheese and crusts of bread, and drinking water either from the brooks or from the springs we come to on these by-paths we travel. "

    The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Complete Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1581

  • Camacho's pots, and what I ate, drank, and slept in Basilio's house; all the rest of the time I have been sleeping on the hard ground under the open sky, exposed to what they call the inclemencies of heaven, keeping life in me with scraps of cheese and crusts of bread, and drinking water either from the brooks or from the springs we come to on these by-paths we travel. "

    Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1581

  • According to the Municipality of Tigre, which was in charge of building the the glass structure around it in order to protect it from the inclemencies of the weather and the passing of time, approximately 50 thousand people reach this place every weekend attracted by the crystal box shining in the horizon.

    Build Blog » Liberated Architecture 2009

  • An attempt was next made to erect some sort of a galley to protect the cook against the inclemencies of the weather.

    South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917 2006

  • And yet, if the poor man [shall I pity him for you, my dear?] should be deprived of the greatest blessing any man on earth can receive, and to which he has the presumption, with so little merit, to aspire; he will have run great risks; caught great colds; hazarded fevers; sustained the highest indignities; braved the inclemencies of skies, and all for — nothing! —

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • I said, it was a disgrace to the country that it was not repaired: and particularly complained that my friend Douglas, the representative of a great house, and proprietor of a vast estate, should suffer the sacred spot where his mother lies interred, to be unroofed, and exposed to all the inclemencies of the weather.

    Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

  • The semi – starvation during the drift on the ice – floe, added to the exposure in the boats, and the inclemencies of the weather encountered after our landing on Elephant Island, had left its mark on a good many of them.

    South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917 2006

  • There had been rain, squalls mingled with snow, hailstorms, gusts of wind, but these inclemencies did not last.

    The Mysterious Island 2005

  • There had been rain, squalls mingled with snow, hailstorms, gusts of wind, but these inclemencies did not last.

    The Mysterious Island 2005

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