The unpropitious beginning of this war against France being imputed to the misconduct of the administration, excited such a ferment among the people, as seemed to threaten a dangerous insurrection.
The Commons unpropitious to the Court---The Lords are more condescending.
They found means, partly by their promises, and partly by corruption, to bring over the earls of Roxburgh and Marchmont, with the whole squadron who had hitherto been unpropitious to the court.
The campaign in Italy was unpropitious to the queen of Hungary and the king of Sardinia.
It is unfortunate that you should have come at an unpropitious moment, when we cannot promise you that perhaps there will not be some cold looks here and there among the townsfolk, to give you a false impression of a Virginia welcome.
I agree with you," replied Harold, "but still I think this is an unpropitious time for the prolongation of my visit.
The savage and semi-savage social conditions, taken as a whole, are fatally unpropitious to rationalism.
But the socio-political conditions were too unpropitious to permit of any continuous advance on rational lines.
That slavery should be most unpropitious to the slave as a moral being will be farther apparent, if we consider that his condition is throughout a Wrong, and that consequently it must tend to unsettle all his notions of duty.
The Princess assumes the functions of Camerara-Mayor to the young Queen of Spain--An unpropitious royal wedding 148 V.
Once secured in the enclosure, they leisurely dispatch them with their arrows, as they are said to believe it would offend the Great Spirit and render future hunts unpropitious to use fire arms in killing their imprisoned game.
The following considerations, however, will go to demonstrate theunpropitious consequences which are apt to result from a system of indiscriminate revenge.
Peculiar portents, very unpropitious behaviour of nature, a very strange appearance in the entrails of a sacrificial victim, are omens which no properly constituted Roman can afford to overlook.
When it was reported that the omens were unpropitious to an imminent battle because the sacred chickens "would not eat," he ordered them to be thrown into the sea so that at least they might drink.
He might still tremble at signs and portents, at comets, at dreams, and at the unpropitious behaviour of birds and beasts.
The times were certainly unpropitious to the execution of the financial reforms for which Zarate had come to Peru.
It was at this unpropitious moment that Colonel Carvel walked into the store, and his daughter flew into his arms.
It appears that there are just two peculiarly unpropitious seasons for the passage,--when the snow falls first, and when it begins to melt in spring.
A weird and uncanny moon, denotes unpropitious lovemaking, domestic infelicities and disappointing enterprises of a business character.
To dream you wear a wig, indicates that you will soon make an unpropitious change.
To dream of a lottery, and that you are taking great interest in the drawing, you will engage in some worthless enterprise, which will cause you to make an unpropitious journey.
To dream of being on docks, denotes that you are about to make anunpropitious journey.
As a general rule, there is no time sounpropitious for scenic effect as noonday.
From theunpropitious regions of France, our scene changes to the fertile fields of England.
I never before felt so sad for those whose lives are passed amidst unpropitious surroundings, or so thankful for my own capacity of enjoying nature.
The captain is continually in the engine-room, and we know when things are looking more unpropitious than usual by his coming up puffing his cigar with unusual strength of determination.
It was precisely at this unpropitious moment that M.
