appositeness

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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

His Chekhovian mots and those little traits that astonish us by their neatness and appositeness, he often took direct from life.

From Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov by Bunin, I. A.

Her employer's trenchant simile as to Mrs. Willoughby's vocal powers could not but recur to Miss Bruce with a sense of its extreme appositeness when the guests entered.

From The War-Workers by Delafield, E.M.

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

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