By being continually exposed to it, danger, with them, ceases to be frightful; of death they have no more terror than the beasts that perish; and even hardships, such as cold, wet, hunger, and broken rest, lose at least part of their disagreeableness, by the frequency of their recurrence.
"The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815"
G. R. Gleig
I beg you to believe that I share with you all the disagreeableness of the suspense which the silence of the British Government to my despatches of the 4th December last causes to us both.
"Observations on the Present State of the Affairs of the River Plate"
Thomas Baines
Why, it is nearly seven o'clock,' said Barnes, who had begun to realize the disagreeableness and danger of the adventure she was being rapidly drawn into.
"Muslin"
George Moore