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Meanings of untoward circumstances in English

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Usage of untoward circumstances in English
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In spite of these untoward circumstances, however, the Negroes of Philadelphia achieved success.
A Century of Negro Migration
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Gradually all the untoward circumstances of his life seemed to adjust themselves anew.
Shenac's Work at Home
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Had we been born in similar untoward circumstances-wetremble to think of it!
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi...
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Nancy's own selfishness had been superimposed upon her by untoward circumstances.
The Purple Heights
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Clarendon's diplomacy was, of a truth, conducted under untoward circumstances!
Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02
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If untoward circumstances surround you, resolve to overcome them.
How to Speak and Write Correctly
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In consequence, many valuable lives are jeopardised from the razor being plied under such untoward circumstances.
White Jacket; Or, The World on a Man-of-War
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Under these untoward circumstances you were early weaned.
Somebody's Luggage
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Who that has bowels of compassion but must commiserate me in such " untoward circumstances?"
Lands of the Slave and the Free; Or, Cuba, the United States, an...
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But selfish designs and untoward circumstances soon dispelled such slender hopes as Clarendon persuaded himself to form.
Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02
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Bad weather, in common with other untoward circumstances, is frequently ascribed to the machinations of evilly disposed boys.
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
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All depended on the skill of the species to maintain a high degree of vitality in untoward circumstances.
Last and First Men
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In consequence of these untoward circumstances the canoes arrived with only one day's supply of this most essential article.
The Journey to the Polar Sea
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Good-nature, perfect courtesy, patience, punctuality, and an easy adaptation to perhaps untoward circumstances mark the perfect lady in travelling.
Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society / A condensed but t...
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Yet despite these untoward circumstances all hope of peace between the French and the Five Nations had not been destroyed.
The Fighting Governor : A Chronicle of Frontenac
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In spite of all the untoward circumstances, therefore, the internal development of the free Negro in the North went on.
The Negro
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