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However, the seam is of small proportions, and when the goods are scoured, pressed, and finished the presence of the seam is a minor item, as it neither incommodes the wearer nor mars the appearance of the stocking.

Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades

Being dripping wet, the demon in his ascent seriously incommodes

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 9, 1841 Various

These ladies get good neither from the length nor the breadth of their dresses, for as the train evidently incommodes them, they twist the dress so tightly round their bodies that the left side seam comes straight or rather lop-sidedly behind and one corner of the train is thrown over the left shoulder all in a wisp.

Southern Arabia Mabel Bent

The endless piling up of such non-essentials cripples and incommodes the story; its drama is too copiously swathed in words to achieve a sting; the Dreiser manner devours and defeats itself.

A Book of Prefaces 1918

Forstner is of no use to me; on the contrary, he incommodes me with his virtuous reasonings.

A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg 1905

His face seemed to say to Gerald and to herself: "If this incommodes you, what did you come for?"

The Old Wives' Tale Arnold Bennett 1899

And when you cannot express yourself, depend upon it that you have nothing precise to express, and that what incommodes you is not the vain desire to express, but the vain desire to _think_ more clearly.

Literary Taste: How to Form It With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature Arnold Bennett 1899

But I cannot defend myself against the reflection that at play men are much more sensitive than in serious business, and that they employ the whole of their probity at the backgammon board, where it incommodes them but indifferently, whereas they put it entirely in the background in a battle or a treaty of peace, where it would be troublesome.

The Queen Pedauque Anatole France 1884

Had you not better take off your bag? it incommodes you in so narrow a seat.

The Battery and the Boiler Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables 1859

This not only incommodes ladies and gentlemen by the obnoxious odour arising from their attire, but these sweeps take up twice the room of other people because the ladies, in particular, object to their clothes being soiled by such unpleasant neighbours.

A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Dutton Cook 1856