Grief grinned to himself at the appositeness of it as Lead. From Wordnik.com. [THE DEVILS OF FUATINO] Reference
Through some accidental appositeness to some contemporaneous situation, these may become generally current. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
But unaware of the appositeness of her remark Miss Craven continued thoughtfully, still staring into the fire. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the East] Reference
Scripture, recited with an accuracy and appositeness that few theologians could exceed, the Doctor replied. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863] Reference
But in thinking out its details we may for the first time note its appositeness to the solution of the problem in hand. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
Johnny was not exactly interested; vistas were opened for which he had no eyes and which possessed no appositeness to his own aims. From Wordnik.com. [On the Stairs] Reference
But for Berger's argument to make sense, its applicability to the work as a whole would have to be demonstrated with sustained appositeness. From Wordnik.com. [Griffes Disharmony] Reference
Grief grinned to himself at the appositeness of it as. From Wordnik.com. [A Son Of The Sun] Reference
With what appositeness did he sketch the neighbouring landowners!. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Souls] Reference
The appositeness of this illustration arises from the fact that ancient. From Wordnik.com. [Birth Control A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians] Reference
'I swallow the story, and leave it to digestion to discover the appositeness. From Wordnik.com. [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference
The figure derived appositeness from the prevalence of such species on the island. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers] Reference
I felt the appositeness of his allusion; and the old couple were forthwith officially denominated. From Wordnik.com. [Grey Roses] Reference
It abounds in utterances of such wisdom and appositeness to the work assumed, that it is here reproduced. From Wordnik.com. [Beams of Light on Early Methodism in America. Chiefly Drawn from the Diary, Letters, Manuscripts, Documents, and Original Tracts of the Rev. Ezekiel Cooper.] Reference
Mentezufis was so confused by the appositeness of the remark, that, instead of an answer, he bowed, muttering. From Wordnik.com. [The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt] Reference
Then he added quickly, in words of Philip Rainham, which had flashed with sudden appositeness across his mind. From Wordnik.com. [A Comedy of Masks A Novel] Reference
This, and the appositeness of it, quite carried Frona away, and she had both his hands in hers on the instant. From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of the Snows] Reference
Rumors of his probable downfall were already reaching us, and the appositeness of the situation appealed to us. From Wordnik.com. [Maximilian in Mexico] Reference
The appositeness was in the six acres of ground of the Lincoln trial and of the six months of the Beecher trial. From Wordnik.com. [My Memories of Eighty Years] Reference
Scriptures were thoroughly understood, that their appositeness and beauty would be themes of increased admiration. From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5] Reference
In Beranger's song "Le Scandale" occurs one of them, which is as remarkable for its Druidic appositeness as any of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, December 1875 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad] Reference
Mina invited him in; there was an appositeness in his coming which appealed to her, and she watched Neeld with covert eagerness. From Wordnik.com. [Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House] Reference
There is, too, a measure of appositeness in the structure and character of his themes -- the themes of asceticism, of Athanaël, of. From Wordnik.com. [Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time] Reference
Accident was often the occasion of sudden and unforeseen applications, which from their appositeness were very agreeable to the people. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6)] Reference
They depend upon the number and appositeness of the facts, and it would be very interesting to pursue this branch of evidence in detail. From Wordnik.com. [The Mabinogion] Reference
It had the tweedy texture of Scotch talk, the characteristic lack of suavity and richness in sense, in casual informativeness, in appositeness. From Wordnik.com. [The Judge] Reference
A special appositeness was given to these reflections by the discovery, in a neighbouring pew, of the serious profile and neatly-trimmed beard of. From Wordnik.com. [House of Mirth] Reference
The words, it was observed, were not merely on banners lettered in gold, but illustrated by portable tableaux of exquisite appositeness and beauty. From Wordnik.com. [The Prince of India — Volume 02] Reference
Sabatini, calm and dignified in his rigidly correct evening dress, his grace and good-looks, represented with curious appositeness the other extreme of life. From Wordnik.com. [The Lighted Way] Reference
There had been, in fact, no intermarriage among its members beyond what was natural in a small and isolated community, but the phrase had a certain appositeness. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Dominion; a chronicle of our northern neighbor] Reference
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