Literary notes about incommode (AI summary)
In literature, "incommode" is used to express the notion of causing inconvenience or disturbance, whether through physical obstruction or social imposition. The word can indicate a tangible hindrance—such as an obstacle in nature or an inconvenient circumstance during travel ([1], [2], [3])—but it is also frequently employed in dialogue as a polite way to express reluctance at imposing on someone else's comfort or routine ([4], [5], [6]). At times, authors use the term with a tone of irony or understatement, highlighting how even minor disruptions are framed as matters of decorum and propriety ([7], [8]).
- "My dear," said he, "if trees get in a man's way of villainy or incommode his pleasures he will cut them down, depend upon it."
— from Little Novels of Italy by Maurice Hewlett - In a little while he advised me to go down to the plain before the heat should incommode my journey.
— from On Nothing & Kindred Subjects by Hilaire Belloc - There fell snow enough for tracking, but not so deeply as to incommode the hunter.
— from The Story of Ab: A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man by Stanley Waterloo - "Madam," he said at last, "I trust I do not incommode you by keeping my seat!"
— from Whistler Stories - I would not stay one moment, if I thought my presence would incommode you in the least.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous - “I am sorry, ladies,” said Flora, rather proudly, “that the presence of mine should incommode you.
— from Flora Lyndsay; or, Passages in an Eventful Life, Vol. I. by Susanna Moodie - “For the honour of the family, I could even resolve to incommode you to that extent.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens - In vain he resisted her entreaties; in vain he feared to incommode her.
— from Paris as It Was and as It Is A Sketch Of The French Capital, Illustrative Of The Effects Of The Revolution by Francis William Blagdon
