seasonableness

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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

First, The seasonableness: there is a time for all purposes, and every word and action is beautiful in his own time.

From The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation by Kerr, James

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

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 House of the Seven Gables by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

It was during this same debate, that he produced that happy retort upon Mr. Pitt, which, for good-humored point and seasonableness, has seldom, if ever, been equalled.

From Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01 by Moore, Thomas