a. 1578. Lindesay (Pitscottie), Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.), I. 257. The king heirand of his wnprosperous iournay.
a. 1586[?]. Hooker, Answ. Travers’ Supplic., § 5. Which vnprosperous beginning of a thing … did … disgrace that order in their conceit.
1631. Gouge, God’s Arrows, III. § 57. 289. No marvell therefore that the warre … was unprosperous.
1665. Boyle, Occas. Refl., VI. i. Endeavours, which … are oft-times so unprosperous.
1776. Adam Smith, W. N., I. x. II. (1869), I. 139. That unprosperous race of men, commonly called men of letters.
1861. M. Arnold, Pop. Educ. France, 185. Not that primary instruction is unprosperous in the Canton of Vaud.
1884. Pearson, in Law Rep., 26 Chanc. Div. 676. The tenant for life received nothing from the unprosperous year, 1881.
