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

By his inexhaustible humour, and the point and appositeness of his impromptus, he quite carried his audience away.

From Weird Tales. Vol. I by Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus)

But in thinking out its details we may for the first time note its appositeness to the solution of the problem in hand.

From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Edman, Irwin

Of that there could be no doubt, and he used it with a native grace, a varied inflection and appositeness which made it seem a part of him, and therefore robbed it of objection.

From Checkers A Hard-luck Story by Blossom, Henry M.

Accident was often the occasion of sudden and unforeseen applications, which from their appositeness were very agreeable to the people.

From The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) by Rollin, Charles