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As they talked, Mrs. Field again chilled with the cold gray comfortlessness of it all: to be sick in such a place!

From Other Main-Travelled Roads by Garland, Hamlin

The filth and comfortlessness that prevail in the houses themselves it is impossible to describe. 

From The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 by Kelley, Florence

She invited the farmer laird to enter that charmed ring, which, of course, he could not help contrasting with the loneliness and comfortlessness of Bourhope.

From Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes by Tytler, Sarah

His bed, he found to his cost, was not over clean, and it was with a depressing sense of comfortlessness that he went to seek the Godbeheres.

From The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant by Wilson, Alexander Johnstone

At his words, the picture of the little shack—her home now—as it had looked the first time she saw it in all its comfortlessness, its untidy squalor, rose before her eyes.

From The Land of Promise by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)