Favorable - "At this propitious time of public distress did Tom Walker set up as a usurer in Boston."
Conciliatory - "He was sulky, however, and would not come to terms: she was to go again with a propitiatory offering, but what it was she forbore to say."
Dangerous - "Tom had long been picking his way through this treacherous forest; stepping from tuft to tuft of rushes and roots, which afforded precarious footholds among deep sloughs."
Bleak - "It was a dreary memento struggle that had taken place in this last foothold of the Indian warriors. memento of the fierce struggle that had taken place in this last foothold of the Indian warriors."