Significados de unpropitious moment en inglés

Jasper could not have selected a more unpropitious moment for his cause.

And the invitation, followed by the proposal, came at a not unpropitious moment.

Here was another effect of starting in an unpropitious moment.

At this unpropitious moment her name was called.

Surely the present is the most unpropitious moment which could have been selected for the passage of this bill.

It was at this unpropitious moment that Colonel Carvel walked into the store, and his daughter flew into his arms.

It was at this unpropitious moment that we heard-startlinglynear-thesharp crash of a tusk against a tree somewhere just ahead.

Thus it was that Eva, determined at keeping her appointment with the inventor at all costs, entered the hallway at just this unpropitious moment.

Altogether there could not have been a much more unpropitious moment for any one to have gone to him than that which Jabez chose.

It may seem to you an unpropitious moment for such a beginning, but in many ways this special theatre is exceptionally well guaranteed against failure.

As it seemed an unpropitious moment for taking counsel with Mr. Shaw about cannibals, I tried another tack with the beautiful youth at my side.

At which unpropitious moment a number of half-drunken men, with "Vote for Trenchard!" stuck round their broken hats, came round the corner shouting: