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Hero Ryder, who had ground-floor rooms, met Sebastian somewhat unpropitiously one night.

From Time Magazine Archive

Elizabeth was born unpropitiously into a man's world and a man's role.

From Time Magazine Archive

But no king could have managed worse than he, no king could be more unfortunately and unpropitiously placed; and his own imprudence and folly hastened the catastrophe.

From A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by Lord, John

Instead of partaking in any of the long round of Christmas merry-makings which we had so unpropitiously commenced, we now spent our evenings at home; truly enjoying the greatest of earthly blessings, domestic felicity.

From Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1 by Hunt, Henry

He afterwards wrote an account of this first meeting, which is interesting because of the closer relationship to which an acquaintance so unpropitiously begun was to lead.

From Mary Wollstonecraft by Pennell, Elizabeth Robins