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

Sometimes the answer was in the words of the Bible; but always, whatever it were, it was given, Eleanor felt, with singular appositeness to the interests before him.

From The Old Helmet, Volume I by Warner, Susan

“He’s a driver and a master,” piped up Grizzly Whiskers, with the appositeness of a Greek chorus.

From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman

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 Maclaren, Alexander

Through some accidental appositeness to some contemporaneous situation, these may become generally current.

From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Edman, Irwin