opportuneness

Example Sentences

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The antecedent circumstances of the war, and the recent history of the French navy, gave a singular opportuneness of occasion, and of personal fitness, to Rodney's arrival at this moment.

From Types of Naval Officers Drawn from the History of the British Navy by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)

The opportuneness of that fellow's coming was phenomenal.

From A Young Girl's Wooing by Roe, Edward Payson

One reason—apart from their intrinsic excellence—for the Byronic suddenness of the fame of the Polish Trilogy, was the psychological opportuneness of its appearance.

From Essays on Modern Novelists by Phelps, William Lyon

It is really directed against the dogma itself, which for a long time people could not believe, and not merely against the opportuneness of defining it.

From Letters From Rome on the Council by D?llinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz von

She almost forgives Violet her existence for the opportuneness of the accident.

From Floyd Grandon's Honor by Douglas, Amanda Minnie