Unfavoring, Unfavouring

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1739. Moses Browne, Poems, 163.

	Thy Mistress, chancing on th’ unwelcome Sight,
	Shall know how anxious prov’d th’ unfav’ring Night.
	Ibid. 273.
	And O! whatever Lot thy Friend shall know,
	Born with unfav’ring Stars, and prov’d in Woe!

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1835. Woman, II. 203. In an unfavouring soil, where many seeds are sown, we reap a full harvest of weeds.

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1878. Stevenson, Inland Voy., 17. We still spread our canvas to the unfavouring air.

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1906. Anna Maria Webster Ward, Tacking, in Verses, 36.

	As sailors of the stormy main
	Move calmly on their way,
	While winds unfavoring rage in vain,
	Their onward course to stay,—

	So should the voyagers that sail
	Life’s stormy sea be wise,
	And force each rough, unfavoring gale
	To waft them toward the skies.

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