inclemency

• “Obama's snow-day quip could be seen as a metaphor for the problems facing the country - that people can get out and persevere in inclemency.”

  1st days give insight into Obama leadership traits

• “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.”

  Chapter 11

• “Thonon: the inclemency of the weather obliged us to remain a day confined to the inn.”

  Chapter 2

• “Our alleged mayor, who had been overseeing PBOT for four years, had a plan for Portland during last December's inclemency: with shovel in hand at a presser during the local paralysis, he told us to clear our own walks.”

  Dear Fireman Randy (Jack Bog's Blog)

• “When I was thirteen years of age, we all went on a party of pleasure to the baths near Thonon: the inclemency of the weather obliged us to remain a day confined to the inn.”

  Chapter 1

• “Given such resolute inclemency, Cassandra decided her weary limbs could do with a rest and took a well-earned break from the cottage.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Forgotten Garden

• “Nearly forty persons were massacred by the troops, and several who fled to the mountains perished by famine and the inclemency of the season.”

  Chronicles of the Canongate

• “It grew cold, it grew bleak; little guarded against the inclemency of the — —, I felt its severity in every limb, and missed a thousand indulgencies which in possession I had never valued.”

  Cecilia

• “We will go to their roofless houses, and see them repaired; we will exclude from their dwellings the inclemency of the weather; we will clothe them from cold, we will rescue them from hunger.”

  Cecilia

• “He succeeded in becoming an integral part of the great and mighty fruit-producing organization; he had adapted himself to the inclemency of the air, and had dwelt in every cave among the rocks.”

  The Magic Skin

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