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To these causes of mortality, so much the more active from operating on bodies already exhausted or enfeebled, was added the unfavourableness of the season; obstinate rains, followed by more obstinate drought, and violent heat.

From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Manzoni, Alessandro

This result, indeed, came out the more characteristically, because of the singular unfavourableness of the season, wherein he made his first trial, for the objects of the adventure.

From Memorials of the Sea My Father: Being Records of the Adventurous Life of the Late William Scoresby, Esq. of Whitby by Scoresby, William

The slowly advancing crisis, the deficit carried forward from one year to another, had become burning owing to the straits of the people and the unfavourableness of the elements.

From Royal Highness by Mann, Thomas

Could she be relied upon to rep resent her brother unfavourably, with the right colour of unfavourableness?

From The Emancipated by Gissing, George

Sydney was originally in the state that Perth presents now; but there the natural unfavourableness of the soil has been entirely overcome.

From The Bushman — Life in a New Country by Landor, Edward Wilson