The heathen poetry had given varied voice to this contemplative melancholy so wont to dwell on life's untoward changes; and there was ghostly evidence of the other world before the coming of the Roman monks.
In them any uncanny or untowardexperience was ascribed to the devil.
Do you mean to tell me you are ignorant of an entanglement, a liaison, a most untoward and unfortunate attachment, existing between Mr. Stanmore and a lady whose name I fear it will be impossible to keep out of the discussion?
He little knew, but it was the last pang he was destined to feel from his untoward attachment, and it punished him far more severely than he deserved.
I am a girl condemned to thoughts beyond her age; and so untoward is my fate, that this walk upon the arm of a stranger is like an interlude of peace.
Let it suffice, that even in these untoward circumstances, she found a heart worthy of her own.
As for the consequences of this untoward event, it proved the mean of revealing what I had hitherto concealed--procuring for me a sort of local popularity little to be envied.
She had dreaded what might happen on the night of the home-coming, but she now clearly saw that her father was less and less likely to disturb himself about any untoward happenings.
She did not shrink from doing this, because all her life long she had been facing things and making the best of untoward circumstances.
Such was theuntoward end of the vast undertaking of John Jacob Astor.
In this case grave constitutional disturbance and other untoward symptoms such as we have already described quickly make their appearance.
At the same time, I am confident that excision of a piece of the coronary band or removal of a few sensitive laminæ has not the untoward consequences so much dreaded in former days.
With all methods of clamping anuntoward result is sometimes the formation of a fresh crack at the point of insertion of the clamps.
In this application they might have been successful, but for an untoward event, which dampened the confidence of the public in all submarine enterprises--the failure of the Red Sea Telegraph.
But it was certainly an untoward incident, which "cast ominous conjecture on the whole success," as it seemed to indicate that there were at the bottom of the sea causes which were wholly unknown and against which it was impossible to provide.
It may have been idle, but it was done that I might know how to act best for Margaret if any thing untoward occurred.
On the Sabbath evening after the riot, I stood at the usual place awaiting my friends, and saw before they reached me that they had something untoward to tell.
There probably could not be a better proof of the fact that, a man who really has intellectual interests will find the material with which to satisfy them, in spite of untoward circumstances, than this boyish experience of Faraday.
Columbus did not speak of the disquieting observation which he made on the night of the 13th of September; he thought of it, and wondered greatly what might be the cause of such an unexpected and untoward phenomenon.
But I am bound to say that if any sudden or untowardcombination of circumstances, a strike, for instance, should arise, disaster might follow.
That shrewd old lady knew her son well enough to suspect that some untoward circumstance had befallen him, but she knew also that she could do no more than bide her time.
Heaven knows how unwillingly I have acted, and how sadly I repent the untoward circumstances which reduced me to that fearful alternative.
Some, because his presence animated their courage, and others because they dreaded the despotic temper of Cañeri, now rendered doubly formidable by this untoward event.
In this state of mind she awaited the marriage, which had only been retarded by the untoward accident which had unhappily brought the life of Don Rodrigo de Cespedes into mortal jeopardy.
This untoward event was the occasion of great anxiety to the Count de Tendilla, who had been entrusted with the government of the city by the queen.
He pointed as he spoke to the donkey which had brought Ethelberta thither, whereupon she was silent, and gazed at her untoward beast as if she had never before beheld him.
But hard externals rule volatile sentiment, and under these untoward influences the girl and the book and the truth about its author were matters upon which he could not afford to expend much time.
But I will not believe in any such untoward event.
No untoward event occurred to cause disappointment or delay; all were ready in due season, and the yacht set sail at the appointed time, with a full list of passengers, carrying plenty of luggage, and with fair winds and sunny skies.
Notwithstanding the delay caused by this untoward incident, the Blazer arrived off Sangatte at about 6 o'clock.
Who knew but that somebody might even now be studying his part of the Youth, ready to step into his shoes should any untoward event occur to incapacitate him?
All of a sudden, as it were, she grew sensitive to whatever in her life and surroundings was untoward or trying.
Could any son-in-law, could Evan Knowlton, at least, have been more untoward for her wishes than the one she had got?
For the doctor is right; many changes are like to occur among us before we see old England's shores again; and I shall be glad to know that I have one aboard who is fit to take Bascomb's place, should aught untoward befall him.
That he has not done so is evidence conclusive and convincing to us all that something untoward has happened to him, for which we shall hold the entire population of your city, individually and collectively, responsible.
