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There was a frowardness about it, a loud insurgency, which made it seem a thousandfold its size.

From Time Magazine Archive

The mother described her own daughter to the Elector as difficult to rule; the Electress was indeed passionate and without moderation, and must often have disturbed domestic peace by her frowardness and jealousy.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav

But nearing Yule, love got them again A twilight tryst—through frowardness sure!—

From Idyllic Monologues Old and New World Verses by Cawein, Madison Julius

More than once I have been obliged to save him from a difficulty into which the frowardness of his heroism had brought him!

From A Struggle for Rome, Vol. 2 (of 3) by Dahn, Felix

The huntsman divined that he was telling of the frowardness and ingratitude of the "new Duchess."

From Browning's Heroines by Armfield, Maxwell