...propicio, -a, propitious...
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer 「Legends, Tales and Poems」
...Some were continuing their way down the track, hoping that fate might be more propitious in some other place...
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
...Once in a while it rained, and under date of the 6th I find thisrecord,—"Everybody complaining of the heat;" but as terrestrialmatters go, the month was remarkably propitious up to the 25th...
Bradford Torrey 「The Foot-path Way」
...The male Mantis, a slender and elegantlover, judges the time to be propitious...
J. H. Fabre Bernard Miall 「Social Life in the Insect World」
...Women wise in such mattersgather them beneath a propitious moon, and preserve them piously in somecorner of the clothes-press or wardrobe...
J. H. Fabre Bernard Miall 「Social Life in the Insect World」
...I go so far as to believe that the ovipositor tells the insect nothing, or at any rate very little, of the inside of the cell, whether propitious or not to the development of the germ...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Mason-bees」
...September apparently will be the propitious month...
J. Henri Fabre 「More Hunting Wasps」
...They even cut the flesh in divers parts of their bodies, to render the spirits more propitious...
Samuel Griswold Goodrich 「Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom」
...It is simply a place of concealment in which he awaits the propitious moment...
Frédéric Houssay 「The Industries of Animals」
...Constantly prowling about the fields, he neglects no propitious circumstance, and profits by all the advantages furnished by the situation of places or the habits of the game he is seeking...
Frédéric Houssay 「The Industries of Animals」
...The Great Horn Owl, however, causes many ravages among them; for when asleep at night the Crow is without defence against the ravisher, for whom, on the contrary, obscurity is propitious...
Frédéric Houssay 「The Industries of Animals」
...In these propitious circumstances the infant that was destinedafterwards to confer the greatest lustre upon the family name wasborn...
Hugh Macmillan 「Roman Mosaics」
...On this propitious commencement was founded the school which we callRoman, rather from the city of Rome itself, than from the people, as Ihave before observed...
Luigi Antonio Lanzi Thomas Roscoe 「The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 2 (of 6)」
...To the Director of Observations,—My Lord, his humble servantNabushum-iddin, Great Astronomer of Nineveh, writes thus: “May Nabu andMarduk be propitious to the Director of these Observations, my Lord...
George Forbes 「History of Astronomy」
..."Pills manufactured out of a whole stag slaughtered with purity ofpurpose on a propitious day," is a common announcement in dispensariesin China...
George Ernest Morrison 「An Australian in China」
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