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

“Something will have to be done about getting a new teacher for that school,” he said with an appositeness which was only too painfully apparent.

From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)

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

The present hand-book of Döderlein is remarkable for the brevity, distinctness, perspicuity, and appositeness of its definitions.

From Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Döderlein, Ludwig

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.