78 examples of unpropitious in sentences

This attempt was from the first chimerical: partly because the time was unpropitious, the Reform fervour being in its period of ebb, and the Tory influences powerfully rallying; but still more, because, as Austin so truly said, "the country did not contain the men."

He did not terrify the birds With strange and unpropitious words Of double-edged ontong; I'm sure he hailed from Beeyah-byyah-bunniga-nelliga-jong.

The morning was unpropitious.

The season anterior to his last visit had been a very unpropitious one, and he was much dissatisfied with the management.

Adj. hopeless, desperate, despairing, gone, in despair, au desespoir [Fr.], forlorn, desolate; inconsolable &c (dejected) 837; broken hearted. unpromising, unpropitious; inauspicious, ill-omened, threatening, clouded over.

The message was conveyed in terms as energetic as language could supply, but it arrived at a most unpropitious [Footnote 1: Charles's Works, 548-550.

The pioneer romancières were commonly adventuresses in life as in letters, needy widows like Mrs. Behn, Mme de Gomez, and Mrs. Mary Davys, or cast mistresses like Mme de Villedieu, Mile de La Force, and Mrs. Manley, who cultivated Minerva when Venus proved unpropitious.

The commencement, however, was unpropitious, and very often a stumble at starting makes the whole journey limp.

* "A few months ago, Mr. gave his little daughter, H, a child of five years old, her first lesson in English Grammar; but no alarming book of grammar was produced on the occasion, nor did the father put on an unpropitious gravity of countenance.

After beating about the bush for a while he said: "My fate just now seems very unpropitious; when may I expect better times?" Gobardhan covered a slate with mysterious calculations and, after poring over them for ten or fifteen minutes, he looked up with the remark:"Your luck is really atrocious and has been so for more than three months.

Surely the present is the most unpropitious moment which could have been selected for the passage of this bill.

If there have been exceptions, he has also generally been able to trace their cause to the unpropitious coincidence of narrow circumstances, a defective education, and poverty of intellect.

Each was eager to contribute his finest gems to form the Empress's necklace,a necklace which was to make its appearance under auspices as favorable as those of the famous Queen's Necklace had been unpropitious.

There has been no rain for more than a fortnight; the wind is north-east, and the sun shines brightly,yet we walk down to the River Coln, anticinating a good day's sport among the trout: for, during the may-fly season, no matter how unpropitious the weather may appear, sport is more of a certainty on this stream than at any other time of year.

I would say, answering your interrogatory generally, that none of them, however unpropitious to the cause of the abolitionists they may appear, to those who look at the subject from an opposite point to the one they occupy, seem, thus far, in any degree to have lessened their hopes and expectations.

But no: with the exception of Massachusetts, they hesitated and were persuaded to acquiesce, because the country was just about entering into a war with England, and the crisis was unpropitious for discussing questions that would create divisions between different sections of the Union.

The act of her late Convention, in depriving a large number of their own constituents (the colored people) of the elective franchise, heretofore possessed by them without any allegation of its abuse on their part, would seem to prove an unpropitious state of public sentiment.

The unpropitious gods demand their tribute; This long ago the ancient Pagans knew:

This unpropitious state of the weather detained me until noon, when a cabriolet for Tours drove up, and taking a seat within it, I left the hostess of the Boule d'Or in the middle of a long story about a rich countess, who always alighted there when she passed that way.

Judging by what one knows of wedding-days, it could hardly be supposed that there could be a more unpropitious moment for the consummation of marriage.

The credit of Brissot and the Philosophers is declining fastthe clubs are unpropitious, and no party long survives this formidable omen; so that, like Macbeth, they will have waded from one crime to another, only to obtain a short-lived dominion, at the expence of eternal infamy, and an unlamented fall.

Disaster to Louis had once followed supplication to Saint Hubert, and the king hoped that the worthy saint might prove equally unpropitious for Charles.

I tried the water with a very roughly manufactured fly: the fish rose repeatedly at it, though there was scarcely a ripple, and notwithstanding my own want of success under these unpropitious circumstances, I feel perfectly satisfied that with proper tackle, and on a favourable day, this prince of sports might be enjoyed on the Victoria. WICKHAM HEIGHTS.

Then came the suggestion, "This is a very unpropitious time to settle a matter of this importance.

What could be a more unpropitious fate than for a Colonial girl, used to an active life of exertion and usefulness, and trained to all domestic arts, to be set down in a great English household where there was really nothing for her to do, and usefulness or superintendence would have been interfering; besides, as Miles had thoughts of settling at the Cape, English experience would serve her little.

78 examples of  unpropitious  in sentences