It would be extremely difficult to find a garment more hideous than a dress-coat; and it is impossible for any head-covering to exceed the stove-pipe hat in ugliness, to say nothing of inconvenience and detestable uncomfortableness.
"John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1"
William Powell Frith
His eyes, which were continually fixed upon hers, pained her; and the uncomfortableness, the repugnance increased in so acute a fashion that Salammbo put a constraint upon herself not to cry out.
"Salammbo"
Gustave Flaubert
The wind blew keenly through a thousand apertures in the log walls; and nothing could exceed the uncomfortableness of our situation.
"Roughing it in the Bush"
Susanna Moodie