insociable

• “I abhor such fanatical phantasimes, such insociable and point-devise companions; such rackers of orthography...”

  Shakespeare's Insult 22-23 July 2006

• “I abhor such fanatical phantasimes, such insociable and point-devise companions; such rackers of orthography, as to speak dout, fine, when he should say doubt; det, when he should pronounce debt, — d,”

  Love’s Labour ’s Lost

• “The observers of this law may be called ‘sociable’—the Latins call them commodi; the contrary, ‘stubborn, ’ ‘insociable, ’ ‘froward, ’ ‘intractable.”

  Chapter XV. Of Other Laws of Nature

• “Take, for instance, Master Holofernes's vituperation of Don Adrian de Armado in _Love's Labour Lost_, and see what you can make of it: 'I abhor such phantasms, such insociable and point-devise companions, such rackers of orthography, as to speak”

  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 460 Volume 18, New Series, October 23, 1852

• “Isabella, your servant, Madam, being sensible of the insociable and solitary life you lead, I have brought my whole Family to wait on your Ladyship, and this my Son in Futuro, to kiss your hands, I beseech your Ladyship to know him son your humble servant: my Son and your Nephew Madam are coming, with the Musick too, we mean to pass the whole day with your Ladyship: — and see they are here.”

  Sir Patient Fancy

• “_ _Isabella_, your Servant, Madam: being sensible of the insociable and solitary Life you lead, I have brought my whole Family to wait on your Ladyship, and this my Son _in Futuro_, to kiss your Hands,”

  The Works of Aphra Behn Volume IV.

• “The observers of this law may be called sociable, (the Latins call them commodi); the contrary, stubborn, insociable, forward, intractable.”

  Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill

• “I abhor such fanatical phantasimes, such insociable and point-devise companions; such rackers of orthography, as to speak dout, fine, when he should say doubt; det, when he should pronounce debt, -- d,”

  Love's Labour's Lost

• “Besides a foolish and feeble pride, an impertinent prating, froward and insociable humours, superstition, and a ridiculous desire of riches when we have lost the use of them, I find there more envy, injustice, and malice.”

  The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 14

• “_staple of his argument_, [ 'More matter with less art,' says the queen in Hamlet], I abhor such _fantastical phantasms_, such insociable and”

  The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded

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