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
"What is the particular appositeness of your remarks, Beatrix?"
From The Dominant Strain by H. C. (Harry C.) Edwards
Their dramatic and literary value would itself have sufficed to obtain attention for them at any time, though there can be no doubt that their popularity was mainly due to their political appositeness.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
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 George Saintsbury
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 Jack London
