propitiousness

Example Sentences

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What an ideal traveller Euralina would be under a wider propitiousness of circumstance!

From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Murfree, Mary Noailles

Kenkenes had come to the Nile that morning, rejoicing in the propitiousness of his opportunity.

From The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt by Miller, Elizabeth

She did not foresee the means by which this would be effected, but her heart was lightened by a secret and inexplicable faith in the propitiousness of some event that was yet to occur.

From Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden

Their ventures were usually of the most modest kind: beginning with a peseta, and graduating upwards, in proportion to the propitiousness of Fortune.

From The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains by Reid, Mayne

And then, sure of the shadow and the propitiousness of the moment, he kissed her.

From The Lure of the Mask by Fisher, Harrison