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

Grief grinned to himself at the appositeness of it as "Lead, Kindly Light," floated out over the dark water.

From A Son Of The Sun by London, Jack

Dick felt rather proud of this, its fluency and general appositeness.

From Old Crow by Brown, Alice

Through some accidental appositeness to some contemporaneous situation, these may become generally current.

From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Edman, Irwin

Still he saw no appositeness in the comparison, "as there was no C�sar in Paris."

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Baird, Henry Martyn