appositeness

Example Sentences

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I could not at the moment recall Enoch’s appositeness; so I had to ask a simple question, though I felt that by so doing I was lowering myself in the eyes of the lunatic:—

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

“Something will have to be done about getting a new teacher for that school,” he said with an appositeness which was only too painfully apparent.

From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)

But this passage, trifling as it may seem to some readers, appeared to me worth preserving, because my recent very careful reperusal of Maupassant, as a whole, made its appositeness constantly recur to me.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George

We have often thought, that if the various similes employed in the Scriptures were thoroughly understood, that their appositeness and beauty would be themes of increased admiration.

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 by Clark, Lewis Gaylord

Johnny was not exactly interested; vistas were opened for which he had no eyes and which possessed no appositeness to his own aims.

From On the Stairs by Fuller, Henry Blake