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Yates's family and connexions were sufficiently known to him to render his introduction as the "particular friend," another of the hundred particular friends of his son, exceedingly unwelcome; and it needed all the felicity of being again at home, and all the forbearance it could supply, to save Sir Thomas from anger on finding himself thus bewildered in his own house, making part of a ridiculous exhibition in the midst of theatrical nonsense, and forced in so untoward a moment to admit the acquaintance of a young man whom he felt sure of disapproving, and whose easy indifference and volubility in the course of the first five minutes seemed to mark him the most at home of the two.
A few moments later, a queer sight amongst all these untoward and unexpected happenings, a fire engine dashed under the arch, narrowly missing the broken fragments of brick and stone, swung around, and a dozen fire-hoses commenced to play upon the flaming building.
I was willing to take Pelet for what he seemed--to believe him benevolent and friendly until some untoward event should prove him otherwise.
"Oh," said the goatherd, "I do not know even the half of what has happened to the lovers of Marcela, but perhaps to-morrow we may fall in with some shepherd on the road who can tell us; and now it will be well for you to go and sleep under cover, for the night air may hurt your wound, though with the remedy I have applied to you there is no fear of an untoward result."
A couple of those untoward animals laid waste two of my borders at Dort."
At first he puzzled over something untoward he was sure had happened.
Not until Mister Haggin abruptly picked him up under one arm and stepped into the sternsheets of the waiting whaleboat, did Jerry dream that anything untoward was to happen to him.
They had a very good time and nothing untoward happened until after tea, when they found themselves in the Barry garden, a little tired of all their games and ripe for any enticing form of mischief which might present itself.
Baloch told the journalists that all the processions and majilis would be recorded by CCTV cameras and strict surveillance would be conducted by law enforcers to maintain law and order situation to avoid any untoward situation because Shikarpur and Jacobabad have faced terrorists attack in past.
He said that district administration is ready to deal with any untoward situation regarding expected flood, adding that flood relief camps have been set up to cope with flood situation and staff members of concerned departments have also been deployed.
Summary: Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], Aug 16 (ANI): Maintaining government's claim of peace in Jammu and Kashmir post scrapping of its special status, Shafiq Mir, Chairman of All J& K Panchayat Conference said on Friday that not a single untoward incident was reported from the state in the last 10 days.
According to a police spokesman, under a comprehensive plan devised on the special directives of Capital City Police Officer, Karim Khan, tight security arrangements would be made for Eid-ul-Adha aimed at averting any untoward incident
(R) Fareeduddin Mustafa has declared rain emergency in the district due to expected thunderstorm rains predicted by Pakistan Meteorological department and directed the officials concerned to remain high alert to face any untoward situation.
Barangay Chair Ricardo Gierran of Barangay Tawan-Tawan, Baguio District is requesting P200,000 for the riprapping of the canal in front of Rosalia Aglay Ayag Elementary School to prevent untoward incidents on rainy days every time the children traverse in that certain area.
" "Wala man lang kahit single untoward incident na na-report sa'tin," Eleazar said.