seasonable

The Memphis Christian Advocate speaks of this work as "seasonable" -- in view of the revival of infidelity of the Thomas Paine type -- and says,

Lectures on the Philosophy and Practice of Slavery, as Exhibited in the Institution of Domestic Slavery in the United States: with the Duties of Masters to Slaves. William Andrew 1856

He generally had on a well worn greyish overcoat, the side pockets of which gaped somewhat with constant usage for into them he would cram a large number of tracts and sally forth in company with me or another of the missionaries, or as sometimes happened he went alone, drop a tract here or there and speak a seasonable word.

General Gordon Saint and Soldier J. Wardle

Now that is ever best and most seasonable, which is for the good of the whole.

Meditations Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

We are supposed to clear off later, with wind and "seasonable" temperatures, which means highs in the 40s F.

More gray jhetley 2007

Longer-term forecast says showers off and on until Wednesday, at which point we return to "seasonable" temperatures.

Clouding up jhetley 2006

The Triestines think us as mad as hatters to come up here, on account of the weather, which is 'seasonable' – bora, snow, and frozen fingers.

The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton William Henry Burton Wilkins 1897

-- But even to him who possesses the knowledge of Brahman, the fruits of good deeds -- such as seasonable rain, good crops, &c. -- are desirable because they enable him to perform his meditations in due form; how then can it be said that knowledge is antagonistic to them and destroys them?

The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 George Thibaut 1881

People to whom cold means misery, who hate to be braced, and shudder at the word "seasonable," can have little difficulty in accounting for the origin of the sports of winter.

Lost Leaders Andrew Lang 1878

Here in Paris, the numbed soldiers out in the open fields, and the women and children, who have no fires and hardly any food, bitterly complain of the "seasonable" weather.

Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris Henry Labouchere 1871

Yet it was only high noon, of a "seasonable" winter's day, by the face of the clock that hung like a pallid moon on the murky wall opposite to him.

A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories Bret Harte 1869