propitiousness
Example Sentences
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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 Mayne Reid
What an ideal traveller Euralina would be under a wider propitiousness of circumstance!
From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Mary Noailles Murfree
They lay at anchor in river mouth, waiting on propitiousness.
From 1492 by Mary Johnston
On the contrary, there is between the propitiousness of soil and climate and the establishment of civilization, a complete independence.
From The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
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 Charles Brockden Brown
