Even the love that has sprung from time, by slow and gradual degrees, and under the propitiousinfluence of intimate fellowship, often retains some taint of selfishness, and acknowledges a fixed and distinct limit.
Wherever he discovers a propitious site, the master-gardener plants some shoot which will one day be a joy to look upon.
The two banks of La Plata appear to me equally propitious for the development of feminine aesthetics, and for the foreigner who loves art the handsomest model is ever that which is before his eyes.
They left their deck-house and walked off away from the others so as to be ready at the propitious moment.
But Robur, seizing the propitious moment, rushed to the central house and seized the levers.
Hence Pope says: Benlowes, propitious still to blockheads, bows; And Shadwell nods the poppy on his brows.
Here he invoked his father "to be propitious to his son attempting the same enterprises; to inspire him with the same counsels, and animate him by his example.
All this was heard with much weeping, and followed with propitious prayers and vows: and had he only gone thus far, and in his speech observed a medium, he had left the souls of his hearers full of sympathy and applause.
Contemporaneously, also, there were other propitious events.
Others seem to take current superstitions into account; thus days are marked by a particular sign, according as they are considered propitious or disastrous.
May Nabu and Marduk be propitious to the King, my Lord.
The child enters the world amid shouts of joy, and the propitious genii who nourish both her and her double, constitute themselves her nurses.
But the aged nation had no longer the skill to take wise advantage of propitious fortune; it had no thoughts of its own, nor could it find fitting form for its new splendour.
Then at a propitious moment he breaks through the dividing wall and profits by the surprise of his sudden entry.
Nor he, the wonder of the Grecian throng, Who drove them with the torrent of his tongue, Who shook the theatres, and swayed the state Of Athens, found a more propitious fate.
They account Saturn to be a planet of a malevolent nature, and Jupiter of a propitious influence.
The stars propitious influence lent When forth the world’s great ruler went.
Then ten necked Rávaṇ saw the time Propitious for his purposed crime.
Bright is the sky around us, bright Without a cloud the Lord of Light, And Śukra(903) with propitious love Looks on thee from his throne above.
Edward eagerly seized the propitious moment to formerly introduce himself and companion, to their fair preserver.
The suffering soul begins unconsciously to feel upward, and, at the propitious moment, heaven appoints its work.
It was a beautiful day, clear and balmy--propitious for the exercises to take place.
The weakness of Constantinople, and the distress and terror of the Latins, were familiar to the observation of the volunteers; and they represented the present moment as the most propitious to surprise and conquest.
Othman possessed, and perhaps surpassed, the ordinary virtues of a soldier; and the circumstances of time and place were propitiousto his independence and success.
For such an embassy, a time and character less propitious could not easily have been found.
It is impossible to imagine any time for a young man morepropitious than the present, or any society more agreeable than London.
But, Vulcan, stand propitious to me, Virtue safe granting, and felicity!
Sustain a mind Propitious to me for my praise, and give (Answering my mind) my vows fit means to live.
Travelling by steamer now is no longer a tediously drawn out vexation, but in propitious weather a pleasure.
Even the fact that Cornwall came bearing propitious tidings did little to quench Vivienne's rage.
This charming coach journey was one of the things that would help her to come to a propitious decision!
It was at thispropitious juncture that the de Rivas elected to return.
If ever thou hast kindly heard A Song in soft Distress preferr'd, Propitious to my tuneful Vow, O gentle Goddess!
He had to fix a seedtime, a propitious seedtime, or his sowing was a failure.
Then the idea of the sinister has for its correlative the idea of the propitious, and from that to the idea of making things propitious by ceremonies is an easy step.
Such a propitious conjunction it must have been that gave the age of luxuriant low-grade growth of the coal-measures; such an adverse series of circumstances that chilled the closing æons of the Palæozoic time.
In the days of the Chinese Empire, up to a few years ago, one of the most important of all the duties of the Emperor of China was to sacrifice and pray in this temple upon midwinter's day for a propitious year.
When the Exilarch Daniel died (1175), Samuel thought the time propitious for obtaining the highest dignity and authority over the Asiatic congregations.
Their political condition was not unfavorable; in fact, within the precincts of St. Peter, they were at that time in more propitious circumstances than any of the Jews of central Europe.
Certainly Graham could not have found a less propitiousmoment for asking Isaura if she really were changed.
The night fell rapidly, the darkness grew momentarily heavier, mingling all the varieties of the scenery in a sombre mass; the hour, in short, was most propitious for trying the bold experiment on which they were resolved.
Mendelssohn did not wish to let pass this propitious opportunity of glorifying Judaism, which was so intensely contemned, and make it clear that it was in no way opposed to reason.
Country people were generally the actors in these games, but when they were celebrated in honour of some very important and propitious event, pages and squires also frequently took part in them.
But he let the propitious moment pass, laughing gently, almost mockingly, to himself.
Now, however, the propitious moment for them had come.
