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Besides, the greatest number of failures in those first years were not due to the fault of the physician or because of unsuitable choice of subjects, but rather to the unpropitiousness of external conditions.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund

There was that amount of general unpropitiousness which is highly stimulating and inspiriting.

From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

The fates have surely forgotten their usual r�le of unpropitiousness.

From The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life by Green, Anna Katharine

Certainly she must be of royal race, and laments the unpropitiousness of her family gods.

From The Works of Horace by Horace