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This is one of those fugitive and casual precautions, which, by intense seasonableness, takes its rank amongst the permanent means of pacification.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. by Various

But if there was a defect as to the seasonableness, it was not because it was so soon set about, but because it was no sooner.

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

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

There certainly never was a greater piece of publishing felicity, in its seasonableness, than this entire reprint.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 by Various

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