1 Taking advantage of the propitious moment, Meg slipped away and ran down to greet her husband with a smiling face and the little blue bow in her hair which was his especial admiration.
2 A stealthy glance now and then refreshed her like sips of fresh water after a dusty walk, for the sidelong peeps showed her several propitious omens.
3 That feature too is propitious.
4 The dew fell, but with propitious softness; no breeze whispered.
5 Her answer, therefore, was not propitious, at least not to Elizabeth's wishes, for she was impatient to get home.
6 to be propitious to me by daigning to lavish on me a slight favor.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—A ROSE IN MISERY 7 The day was declining, there was not even a cat in the lane, the hour was propitious.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAI... 8 He awaited the propitious moment with the crafty patience of the sick.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY F... 9 It had hardly been a propitious beginning, but he had chosen his course, and would show no swerving.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 6 Yeobright Goes, and the Breach Is Complete 10 Sir Henry had numerous papers to examine after breakfast, so that the time was propitious for my excursion.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House 11 Providence is now opposed to them, when I most thought it would be propitious.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 90. The Meeting. 12 For some time, I am doubtful of Miss Shepherd's feelings, but, at length, Fate being propitious, we meet at the dancing-school.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 18. A RETROSPECT 13 The surrounding atmosphere was propitious to this scheme of courtship.
14 With many searchings of heart I prayed the woodland nymphs, and lord Gradivus, who rules in the Getic fields, to make the sight propitious as was meet and lighten the omen.
15 But when fortune is not thus propitious to him, he must contrive other means to rid himself of rivals, and must do so successfully before he can accomplish anything.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXX.