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
We have often thought, that if the various similes employed in the Scriptures were thoroughly understood, that their appositeness and beauty would be themes of increased admiration.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 by Lewis Gaylord Clark
“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)
Mina invited him in; there was an appositeness in his coming which appealed to her, and she watched Neeld with covert eagerness.
From Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House by Anthony Hope
Of course there will be room enough for contrariety of judgment among my readers, as to the necessity, or appositeness, or value, or good taste, or religious prudence, of the details which I shall introduce.
From Apologia Pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman
