Adjective : unseasonable weather. ,Their visits were usually unseasonable. From Dictionary.com.
"unseasonableness" of the weather, finding responses few and absently given, relapsed into silence. From Wordnik.com. [Mary-'Gusta] Reference
Was there no call in the great unseasonableness of the year?. From Wordnik.com. [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference
Would you forbear sermons and sacraments so many years on pretense of unseasonableness?. From Wordnik.com. [The Reformed Pastor] Reference
All through his life James was characterised by a singular unseasonableness in his activity. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series] Reference
The factors in this expression are unseasonableness, not for dried leaves, but for prodigious numbers of dried leaves; direct fall, windlessness, month of April, and localization in France. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
Wherefore the hindrance by rot is rather to be ascribed to the unseasonableness and moisture of the weather in summer, also their licking in of mildews, gossamire, rowtie fogs, and rank grass, full of superfluous juice, but especially. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference
I could not give any connected detail yesterday; but the suddenness, and, in one light, the unseasonableness with which the affair burst out, needs explanation; for though the event of the 26th ult., as you will conclude, immediately opened to me the happiest prospects. From Wordnik.com. [Emma]
And though he was a senator, yet, thinking that one of the least of his excellences, he valued himself more upon a sort of cynical liberty of speaking what he pleased, which sometimes, indeed, did away with the rudeness and unseasonableness of his addresses with those that would interpret it in jest. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference
The Hellenic watchwords "nothing too much"; and "measure in everything"; the Hellenic hatred of "unseasonableness" and dread of. From Wordnik.com. [Platform Monologues] Reference
Once I remember the party arrived at midnight; but the unseasonableness of the tour did not repress the impatience of the islanders. From Wordnik.com. [Typee] Reference
Once I remember the party arrived at midnight; but the unseasonableness of the hour did not repress the impatience of the islanders. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of a four months' residence among the natives of a valley of the Marquesas Islands, or, A peep at Polynesian life] Reference
We travelled all night and reached Lippstadt in the early morning, and in spite of the unseasonableness of the hour I ordered something to eat. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
"So much the worse!" thought Catherine; such ill-timed exercise was of a piece with the strange unseasonableness of his morning walks, and boded nothing good. From Wordnik.com. [Northanger Abbey]
After apologizing for the unseasonableness of the hour, he briefly stated the urgency of the case, and asked for a verbal order to put the captain and cook in prison to await their trial the next morning. From Wordnik.com. [Isaac T. Hopper] Reference
It was an early hour certainly, not yet eleven o'clock; but "calling" was unknown at Abersethin, and it was not the unseasonableness of the hour which made Shoni stare as the three visitors entered the "clos" or farm-yard. From Wordnik.com. [By Berwen Banks] Reference
He did not venture, however, to say what, perhaps, would have been the true horn of the difficulty, that the print was an autumn or winter illustration, for that might have subjected him to condign punishment for its unseasonableness. From Wordnik.com. [Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia] Reference
After excusing the unseasonableness of his visit, and letting us know he was a parliament man, he swore he was so taken with our lodging, that he would set fire to his house as soon as he got home, and teach his wife and children to lie, like us, in the open field. From Wordnik.com. [The Westover Manuscripts: Containing the History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina; A Journey to the Land of Eden, A. D. 1733; and A Progress to the Mines. Written from 1728 to 1736, and Now First Published] Reference
"Saints above, man, what talk have you of jokin 'at this hour of the day or night?" said Mrs. M'Gurk, feeling the unseasonableness acutely as a bitter gust came swooping up the slope and indiscriminatingly ruffled the rime-dusted grass-tufts and her own grizzled locks. From Wordnik.com. [Strangers at Lisconnel] Reference
Once I resolved to leave the house, and retire to my brother's, but was deterred by reflecting on the unseasonableness of the hour, on the alarm which my arrival, and the account which I should be obliged to give, might occasion, and on the danger to which I might expose myself in the way thither. From Wordnik.com. [Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale] Reference
Some of them, such as the Congregation of the Index, are not so concerned save from a disciplinary standpoint, by prohibiting the reading of certain books, regarded as dangerous to faith or morals, if not by the very doctrine which they contain, at least by their way of expressing it or by their unseasonableness. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner] Reference
It is said that in some countries, when a stranger asks his way, he is at once questioned in turn what place he came from: something like this would be the unseasonableness of a physicist, who inquired how the phenomena and laws of the material world primarily came to be, when his simple task is that of ascertaining what they are. From Wordnik.com. [The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin] Reference
William Coventry had some earnest words about it, the one promoting it for his private ends, being, as Cocke tells me himself, to have L500 if the bargain goes on, and I am to have as much, and the other opposing it for the unseasonableness of it, not knowing at all whose the proposition is, which seems the more ingenious of the two. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 43: May/June 1666] Reference
Lord and Sir William Coventry had some earnest words about it, the one promoting it for his private ends, being, as Cocke tells me himself, to have L500 if the bargain goes on, and I am to have as much, and the other opposing it for the unseasonableness of it, not knowing at all whose the proposition is, which seems the more ingenious of the two. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete] Reference
My Lord and Sir William Coventry had some earnest words about it, the one promoting it for his private ends, being, as Cocke tells me himself, to have L500 if the bargain goes on, and I am to have as much, and the other opposing it for the unseasonableness of it, not knowing at all whose the proposition is, which seems the more ingenious of the two. From Wordnik.com. [The Diary of Samuel Pepys, May/Jun 1666]
I could not give any connected detail yesterday; but the suddenness, and, in one light, the unseasonableness with which the affair burst out, needs explanation; for though the event of the 26th ult., as you will conclude, immediately opened to me the happiest prospects, I should not have presumed on such early measures, but from the very particular circumstances, which left me not an hour to lose. From Wordnik.com. [Emma] Reference
A piece with the strange unseasonableness of his morning walks, and boded nothing good. From Wordnik.com. [Northanger Abbey] Reference
A good many sunken rocks, and boys, water, and rocks, did not appear by any means a safe conjunction, so Mr.. Ashford put the matter off for the present by the unseasonableness of the weather; and Mr. Ashford asked one or two of the fishermen how far they thought landing on the Shag a prudent attempt. From Wordnik.com. [The Heir of Redclyffe] Reference
Burley, scandalized at the disunion implied in this virulent strife of tongues, interposed between the disputants, and, by some general remarks on the unseasonableness of discord, a soothing address to the vanity of each party, and the exertion of the authority which his services in that day’s victory entitled him to assume, at length succeeded in prevailing upon them to adjourn farther discussion of the controversy. From Wordnik.com. [Old Mortality] Reference
Not to mention the unseasonableness of this subsidy and its fruitless expenditure, why should he bring upon us the resentment of a queen, who is both so important to us as a friend and as an enemy so much to be dreaded? ". From Wordnik.com. [History of the Revolt of the Netherlands — Volume 03] Reference
One, who appeared to be the youngest, no sooner saw me, than she shrieked, and, starting from her seat, betrayed in the looks which she successively cast upon me, on herself, and on the chamber, whose apparatus was in no less confusion than that of the apartment below, her consciousness of the unseasonableness of this meeting. From Wordnik.com. [Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793] Reference
Gerard Douw began to fear, naturally enough, that terror or ill-treatment, had unsettled the poor girl's intellect, and he half suspected, by the suddenness of her appearance, the unseasonableness of the hour, and above all, from the wildness and terror of her manner, that she had made her escape from some place of confinement for lunatics, and was in imminent fear of pursuit. From Wordnik.com. [J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 1] Reference
Gerard Douw began to fear, naturally enough, that the poor girl, owing to terror or ill-treatment, had become deranged; and he half suspected, by the suddenness of her appearance, and the unseasonableness of the hour, and, above all, from the wildness and terror of her manner, that she had made her escape from some place of confinement for lunatics, and was in immediate fear of pursuit. From Wordnik.com. [The Purcell Papers — Volume 2] Reference
I could not give any connected detail yesterday; but the suddenness, and, in one light, the unseasonableness, with which the affair burst out, needs explanation; for though the event of the 26th ult., as you will conclude, immediately opened to me the happiest prospects, I should not have presumed on such early measures, but from the very particular circumstances, which left me not an hour to lose. From Wordnik.com. [Emma] Reference
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