Happy, O Agricola! not only in the splendor of your life, but in the seasonableness of your death. From Wordnik.com. [The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus] Reference
There certainly never was a greater piece of publishing felicity, in its seasonableness, than this entire reprint. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863] Reference
This is one of those fugitive and casual precautions, which, by intense seasonableness, takes its rank amongst the permanent means of pacification. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
It is from three to twelve feet long, and from one to two inches in diameter, according to the quality of the soil, the seasonableness of the weather, &c. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
I submit to Congress the seasonableness also of an authority to augment the stock of such materials as are imperishable in their nature, or may not at once be attainable. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
The seasonableness of this word: It shall come when you turn to the right hand or to the left. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference
Her petition to the king at her return, favoured by the seasonableness of her application to him. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther)] Reference
The seasonableness of a mercy adds to its beauty and sweetness, like apples of gold to pictures of silver. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord's Prayer] Reference
The seasonableness of his coming, however, and his civil, neighborly ways, shall make up for all deficiencies in song and plumage. From Wordnik.com. [Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs] Reference
A precious gift, because of its seasonableness, and because it gave me joy in seeing these ornaments given up for the Lord's sake. From Wordnik.com. [A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller Written by Himself, Fourth Part] Reference
If we fret about the weather it is because of an insistent desire that the weather shall conform to our idea of its seasonableness. From Wordnik.com. [Why Worry?] Reference
Ribband of Humility — which was sorry for, because of the excellency and seasonableness of the subject, and otherwise well handled. From Wordnik.com. [Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society] Reference
And here is neither Hellenic seasonableness and proportion, nor Hebraic fervour, nor truth as it is understood by either Hebrew or Hellene. From Wordnik.com. [Platform Monologues] Reference
Helene sat a long time plunged in the stupor which the information, supplied by this woman with such fortuitous seasonableness, had brought upon her. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Episode] Reference
But, notwithstanding the seasonableness of the event, and the familiarity of the crime in that age, no shadow of imputation was ever cast on the pure fame of Isabella. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1] Reference
Hilary: That is, obedient to his Lord's command, by the seasonableness of his teaching dispensing the word of life to a household which is to be nourished for the food of eternity. From Wordnik.com. [Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew] Reference
Pyncheon's funeral sermon, which was printed, and is still extant, the Rev.Mr. Higginson enumerates, among the many felicities of his distinguished parishioner's earthly career, the happy seasonableness of his death. From Wordnik.com. [The House of the Seven Gables] Reference
In Colonel Pyncheon's funeral sermon, which was printed, and is still extant, the Rev.Mr. Higginson enumerates, among the many felicities of his distinguished parishioner's earthly career, the happy seasonableness of his death. From Wordnik.com. [House of the Seven Gables] Reference
Lord Byron's life was signalised, there is none, perhaps, that, for its own peculiar seasonableness and delicacy, as well as for the perfect worthiness of the person who was the object of it, deserves more honourable mention than that which I am now about to record, and which took place nearly at the period of which I am speaking. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals] Reference
A hundred questions of fitness, of seasonableness, of conflicting expediencies, present themselves in this connection, and nothing gives more anxiety to a sensible man who holds notions opposed to the current prejudices, than to hit the right mark where intellectual integrity and prudence, firmness and wise reserve, are in exact accord. From Wordnik.com. [On Compromise] Reference
Is pleased with its seasonableness. —. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
North American Review), as often as your leisure, the seasonableness of topics, and the appearance of works to be noticed, may admit. ". From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers]
3dly, The third commending property of the Israelites 'deliverance was the eminent seasonableness of it. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI.] Reference
1st, Its greatness. 2dly, Its unexpectedness, 3dly, Its seasonableness. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI.] Reference
Mr. Pitt, which, for good-humored point and seasonableness, has seldom, if ever, been equalled. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01] Reference
If, therefore, there were one to whom I had the honour to be known; and to know him so perfectly, that I could say, without flattery, he had all the depth of understanding that was requisite in an able statesman, and all that honesty which commonly is wanting; that he was brave without vanity, and knowing without positiveness; that he was loyal to his prince, and a lover of his country; that his principles were full of moderation, and all his counsels such as tended to heal, and not to widen, the breaches of the nation: that in all his conversation there appeared a native candour, and a desire of doing good in all his actions: if such an one, whom I have described, were at the helm; if he had risen by his merits, and were chosen out in the necessity and pressures of affairs, to remedy our confusions by the seasonableness of his advice, and to put a stop to our ruin, when we were just rolling downward to the precipice; I should then congratulate the age in which I live, for the common s. From Wordnik.com. [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06] Reference
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