Untoward

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Archive 2007-06-01 Ann Althouse 2007

Untoward circumstances, hastened, perhaps, by a wealthier suitor, brought this amour to a disastrous issue; and Father José entered a monastery, taking upon himself the vows of celibacy.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 Various

Untoward conditions prevented publication and it has lain hidden away all these years.

Before the War, and After the Union; An Autobiography 1929

Untoward circumstances had forced him into their hands, and, like the boy with the fly-paper, they were unable to get rid of him peaceably.

The Free Range Francis William Sullivan 1925

Untoward things may be divided, for the sake of convenience, into two main classes, sections, or categories:

South Wind Norman Douglas 1910

Untoward events had thrown this establishment into a state of excited confusion: their nature Lanyard could not surmise, but their conjunction with his designs was exasperatingly inopportune.

The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf Louis Joseph Vance 1906

Untoward, in fact, it was not, for the purposes which Canning had in view, because it put an end to all the resistance of the Ottoman Power, and the independence of Greece as a self-governing nation was established, and recognized.

A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV (of 4) Justin McCarthy 1898

'MY DEAR SIR, -- Untoward circumstances come to me, I think, less painfully than pleasant ones would just now.

Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle Clement King Shorter 1891

Untoward circumstances had been vanquished -- the butcher, the baker had been settled with or -- done without.

The Dew of Their Youth 1887

Untoward circumstances and outside financial pressure leave him absolutely without anything to eat; for he depends almost entirely on the outer world for his supplies.

The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland 1875