Among them were the butterfly-orchis and Alpine lady's-mantle, besides a goodly crop of primroses, all the more attractive because of the seemingly unpropitious region where they were blooming.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
She had withdrawn as soon as possible after meeting Hyde, and he was so miserably disappointed, so angry at the unpropitious circumstances which had dominated their casual meeting, that he hardly spoke to anyone as they returned home; and was indeed so little interested in other affairs that he forgot until the next day to ask Annie whose acquaintance he had rather palpably refused.
"The Maid of Maiden Lane"
Amelia E. Barr
As this was my first appearance before a public audience, and that, too, composed of the companions and acquaintances of my youth-the most unpropitious of all audiences for a young man to face-I spent nearly the entire month in the preparation of that address.
"Memoirs of Orange Jacobs"
Orange Jacobs