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

Johnny was not exactly interested; vistas were opened for which he had no eyes and which possessed no appositeness to his own aims.

From On the Stairs by Fuller, Henry Blake

In his speeches, on the contrary, he quoted but little, and only when he seemed to run upon a thought already expressed by some one else with singular force and appositeness.

From Oration on the Life and Character of Henry Winter Davis by Creswell, John A. J.

“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

By his inexhaustible humour, and the point and appositeness of his impromptus, he quite carried his audience away.

From Weird Tales. Vol. I by Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus)