Propitious

Her answer, therefore, was not propitious, at least not to Elizabeth’s wishes, for she was impatient to get home.

Therefore, that happiness be somewhat shared, Such things as thou art are admitted oft Into like gardens thou didst pass erewhile, And suffer’d in these temples: for that cause Thou standest safe beneath this statue’s knees.” “That I am favour’d for unworthiness, By such propitious parley medicined In sickness not ignoble, I rejoice, Aye, and could weep for love of such award.” So answer’d I, continuing, “If it please, Majestic shadow, tell me where I am, Whose altar this, for whom this incense curls; What image this whose face I cannot see For the broad marble knees; and who thou art, Of accent feminine so courteous?” Then the tall shade, in drooping linen veil’d, Spoke out, so much more earnest, that her breath Stirr’d the thin folds of gauze that drooping hung About a golden censer from her hand Pendent; and by her voice I knew she shed Long-treasured tears.

And when the Thief was in the Moonmaid, that was a propitious time for a man to steal a woman, Ygritte insisted.

XXVI An Exhortation to Liberate Italy from the Barbarians Having carefully considered the subject of the above discourses, and wondering within myself whether the present times were propitious to a new prince, and whether there were elements that would give an opportunity to a wise and virtuous one to introduce a new order of things which would do honour to him and good to the people of this country, it appears to me that so many things concur to favour a new prince that I never knew a time more fit than the present.

The prince himself, with awful dread possess’d, His vows to great Apollo thus address’d: “Indulgent god, propitious pow’r to Troy, Swift to relieve, unwilling to destroy, Directed by whose hand the Dardan dart Pierc’d the proud Grecian’s only mortal part: Thus far, by fate’s decrees and thy commands, Thro’ ambient seas and thro’ devouring sands, Our exil’d crew has sought th’ Ausonian ground; And now, at length, the flying coast is found.

This is the end of Full Earth, a time particularly propitious for finishing old business and meeting new people—” “And fuck your false prophecy, too!” Tian bent, picked up a clod of earth, and threw it at the robot.

Providence is now opposed to them, when I most thought it would be propitious.

She walked up and down the long saloon while waiting for Laurie, and once arranged herself under the chandelier, which had a good effect upon her hair; then she thought better of it, and went away to the other end of the room, as if ashamed of the girlish desire to have the first view a propitious one.

He awaited the propitious moment with the crafty patience of the sick.

The Roman made an expiatory offering, and prayed, Whatever god or goddess thou art to whom this grove is sacred, be propitious to me, my family, and children, etc.

The moment was too propitious for the display of that discursiveness which seemed the only bond of union among tempers so divergent.

We decided to go further north, towards Minifir, where Zaal thought the land propitious for mining a train.

"She ceased; and suppliant thus I made reply: 'O goddess I on thy aid my hopes rely; Dictate propitious to my duteous ear, What arts can captivate the changeful seer; For perilous the assay, unheard the toil, To elude the prescience of a god by guile.'

The chemist began saying— “Indeed the weather is not propitious on account of the damp.” “Nevertheless,” replied the tax-collector, with a sly look, “there are people who like it.” She was stifling.

Descended, Adam to the bower where Eve Lay sleeping ran before, but found her waked; And thus with words not sad she him received: “Whence thou return’st, and whither went’st, I know; For God is also in sleep, and dreams advise, Which he hath sent propitious, some great good Presaging, since with sorrow and heart’s distress Wearied I fell asleep.

Bellonda-Mentat would argue for delay “until a more propitious moment.” But I will seek my own peculiar way despite what my Sisters think.