"unseasonableness" of the weather, finding responses few and absently given, relapsed into silence. ❋ Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1907)
I could not give any connected detail yesterday; but the suddenness, and, in one light, the unseasonableness with which the affair burst out, needs explanation; for though the event of the 26th ult., as you will conclude, immediately opened to me the happiest prospects, I should not have presumed on such early measures, but from the very particular circumstances, which left me not an hour to lose. ❋ Unknown (2004)
And though he was a senator, yet, thinking that one of the least of his excellences, he valued himself more upon a sort of cynical liberty of speaking what he pleased, which sometimes, indeed, did away with the rudeness and unseasonableness of his addresses with those that would interpret it in jest. ❋ Plutarch (2003)
A national literature must negotiate geographical and social divides in the manner depicted in that phrase "a letter [sent] to Maple Grove by one lady, to Ireland by another"; it is by definition susceptible to the same problems of unseasonableness and irrelevancy that make Mr. Weston's conundrum about the letters of perfection so mal à propos. ❋ Unknown (2000)
I could not give any connected detail yesterday; but the suddenness, and, in one light, the unseasonableness with which the affair burst out, needs explanation; for though the event of the 26th ult., as you will conclude, immediately opened to me the happiest prospects, ❋ Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 (2001)
The first comprehends a desire for delicate foods, flavor, and novelty because of expense or unseasonableness, exquisite preparation, or a desire for unnecessary variety. ❋ Wheaton Barbara Ketcham (1983)
Would you forbear sermons and sacraments so many years on pretense of unseasonableness? ❋ 1615-1691 (1974)
Was there no call in the great unseasonableness of the year? ❋ 1616-1683 (1968)
Wherefore the hindrance by rot is rather to be ascribed to the unseasonableness and moisture of the weather in summer, also their licking in of mildews, gossamire, rowtie fogs, and rank grass, full of superfluous juice, but especially ❋ Thomas Malory Jean Froissart (N/A)
All through his life James was characterised by a singular unseasonableness in his activity. ❋ William Morison (N/A)
The factors in this expression are unseasonableness, not for dried leaves, but for prodigious numbers of dried leaves; direct fall, windlessness, month of April, and localization in France. ❋ Charles Fort (N/A)
Displeased with my interruption, he muttered something at my impatience, and at the unseasonableness of my call, and again blew his bugle, though by no means so vigorously as he had before done; after which we gained the barge, and continued our way without farther interruption. ❋ Various (N/A)
Some of them, such as the Congregation of the Index, are not so concerned save from a disciplinary standpoint, by prohibiting the reading of certain books, regarded as dangerous to faith or morals, if not by the very doctrine which they contain, at least by their way of expressing it or by their unseasonableness. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Wherefore the hindrance by rot is rather to be ascribed to the unseasonableness and moisture of the weather in summer, also their licking in of mildews, gossamire, rowtie fogs, and rank grass, full of superfluous juice, but especially (I say) to over moist weather, whereby the continual rain piercing into their hollow fells soaketh forthwith into their flesh, which bringeth them to their baines. ❋ Unknown (1909)
The Hellenic watchwords "nothing too much"; and "measure in everything"; the Hellenic hatred of "unseasonableness" and dread of ❋ Unknown (1902)
"Saints above, man, what talk have you of jokin 'at this hour of the day or night?" said Mrs. M'Gurk, feeling the unseasonableness acutely as a bitter gust came swooping up the slope and indiscriminatingly ruffled the rime-dusted grass-tufts and her own grizzled locks. ❋ Jane Barlow (1887)
It was an early hour certainly, not yet eleven o'clock; but "calling" was unknown at Abersethin, and it was not the unseasonableness of the hour which made Shoni stare as the three visitors entered the "clos" or farm-yard. ❋ Allen Raine (1885)
"Hit was de unseasonableness er de hour, I speck," said Uncle Remus, dryly. ❋ Frederick Stuart (1881)
"Hit was de unseasonableness er de hour, I speck," said Uncle ❋ Joel Chandler Harris (1878)
