seasonableness

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The motives and calls to the work above mentioned will sufficiently, we hope, demonstrate the seasonableness of it.

From The Auchensaugh Renovation of the National Covenant and Solemn League and Covenant With the Acknowledgment of Sins and Engagement to Duties, as They Were Renewed at Auchensaugh, Near Douglas, July 24, 1712. (Compared With the Editions of Paisley, 1820, and Belfast, 1835.) Also, The Renovation of These Public Federal Deeds Ordained at Philadelphia, October 8, 1880, by the Reformed Presbytery, with Accommodation of the Original Covenants, in Both Transactions, to Their Times and Positions Respectively by Presbytery, The Reformed

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 Why Worry? by Walton, George Lincoln

THE END The irresolute winter only wavered some forty-eight hours, setting to work in earnest on the second day after Christmas Day, following on suggestions of seasonableness on Boxing Day.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend

Happy, O Agricola! not only in the splendor of your life, but in the seasonableness of your death.

From The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Tacitus, Cornelius

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 The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 by Prescott, William Hickling