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
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 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 Henry M. Blossom
And then he passes to earnest instructions and exhortations, which derive appositeness from regarding them as a proclamation to his men of the principles on which his camp is to be governed.
From The Life of David As Reflected in His Psalms by Alexander Maclaren
Accident was often the occasion of sudden and unforeseen applications, which from their appositeness were very agreeable to the people.
From The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) by Charles Rollin
