He, however, lay at home in dejection and mourning; but was persuaded by Alcibiades and others of his friends to come abroad and show himself to the people; who having, upon his appearance, made their acknowledgments, and apologized for their Untowardly treatment of him, he undertook the public affairs once more; and, being chosen general, requested that the statute concerning base-born children, which he himself had formerly caused to be made, might be suspended; that so the name and race of his family might not, for absolute want of a lawful heir to succeed, be wholly lost and extinguished.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh
It might have been better for him not to have married; but now that he was married, and that things had brought him Untowardly to this pass, he knew that his wife's safety was his first duty.
"Can You Forgive Her?"
Anthony Trollope
All the same, it was due to them all, due to herself especially, now that she was grown up and at home, that she should not be kept in the dark any longer like a baby, that she should be put in possession of the facts which, after all, threatened to stand here at Mellor Park, as Untowardly in their, in her way, as they had done in the shabby school and lodging-house existence of all those bygone years.
"Marcella"
Mrs. Humphry Ward