| 单词 | inapt |
| 例句 | It means "terrible lizard" and was a curiously inapt name. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Inherit the Viper” is an inapt title for a better-than-not-crime drama. ‘Inherit the Viper’ Review: Hard Times in a Hard Town 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z These moments suggest a thinking failure of his own: a failure to examine the inapt moral equivalences and disguised elitism inherent in his brand of provocation. Review: Michael Moore, Bragging on Broadway, in ‘The Terms of My Surrender’ 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z After all, it’s a movie for which too much cleanup may be inapt. ‘Shadows in the City’ Review: A Sleazy Slice of 1980s No Wave 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z “The Time That Remains,” which punctuates its story with carefully deployed incidental music, with lyrics in both Hebrew and Arabic, ends jarringly but not inaptly with a techno-remix of “Stayin’ Alive.” | 'The Time That Remains': In Nazareth, Human Comedy as Wind Rustles the Olive Branches 2011-01-06T23:52:20Z The last might be a slightly inapt choice, given that it comes sometime after Manson’s feelings on the negative effects of the “human highlight reel of social media.” ‘The Subtle Art of Not Giving a #@%!’ Review: A Blunt Philosophy 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z However inapt as drama, and however much real estate they steal from the development of a richer plot, such songs serve an important function, like the witty prose of the novel. ‘Oliver!’ Review: Tunes, Glorious Tunes, in a Grimly Cheerful Revival 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z Overall, the work gives little reason to consider an old view of Lichtenstein, as a spectacularly gifted lightweight, inapt. Art Review: ‘Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective,’ at the National Gallery of Art 2012-10-18T17:25:34Z Likewise, we naturally associate the words 10,000 Maniacs with Natalie Merchant's earnest, polite rock, no matter that this may be the most inapt band name in popular music history. Are there any great band names left? 2011-04-04T22:13:00Z There is no doubt in their music: Dazed and Confused is as inaptly titled a signature song as could be. Led Zeppelin: 'There was a swagger – we knew we were good' 2012-10-11T16:35:00Z The analogy is totally inapt because abortion involves the definite termination of another life, so it’s a conscious intent to end the life of another being. Laura Ingraham: ‘What I think is best is to let people make their own personal medical decisions, which I thought that liberals used to be in favor of’ 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z That’s particularly inapt for you, given your distinctive wiring, but it’s an unproductive strategy across the board. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A partner who wants to be missed won’t meet you where you are 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z I stood for an inapt length of time watching soap bubble from a hole in the wall while Nathan stood yards away looking at a broom propped up by a kitchen knife. Not Friends? Then No Benefits 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z It is also why Republicans continue to mock what they call the inaptly named Inflation Reduction Act, which passed in 2022 on strictly Democratic votes. Republicans’ Problem in Attacking Biden: They Helped Pass His Economic Bills 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z That was just one example in recent days of the Republicans’ clown car backfiring in the party’s bumbling drive to weaponize the government against political foes — the very crime it inaptly projects onto Democrats. Opinion: Kevin McCarthy's clowns wasted your tax dollars and Congress' time this week 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z The mayoralty campaign that culminates Tuesday has featured, in Brandon Johnson, a comprehensively, almost exotically, inapt candidate. Opinion | Chicago voters must choose further decline or a remedy for an ailing city 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z The stoning and poisoning of wild primates in Brazil is an especially lurid example of how an inaptly named disease can have real-world implications. Why Should Monkeypox Be Renamed? 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z But “stunned” is inapt to describe the alert, engaged crowds at the Supreme Court the day before. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: An attention-seeker gets just that 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Moreover, if passed by the Senate, the inaptly named “Build Back Better” bill will dispense several trillion dollars more. Biden administration’s overreach affecting states’ rights, too 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z The characterization of the policy as a “mandate” feels particularly inapt in the vaccine context, where actual mandates have been used repeatedly, and upheld by courts. Opinion | Biden isn’t proposing a vaccine mandate. He’s giving people a vaccine choice. 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z In this case, the rhetoric of returning to normal is inapt, because “normal” was dysfunctional and bleak. How New York Waiters Got the Upper Hand 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z Her vacant voice and immobile expression augment the surprise effect of her inapt citations. How Donald Trump canceled the Republican party | Sidney Blumenthal 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z How inapt that the most prosocial thing we can do is to avoid one another. Perspective | The poetry that speaks best to the pandemic 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Neither a governorship nor a mayoralty — nor the presidency — is essentially a “management job,” as former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg coolly, but inaptly, framed it during his short-lived campaign to replace Trump. Opinion | We don’t know the most important fact in the world right now 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z For others, it was an inadequate and inapt substitute for real action. Opinion | We differ in our politics. We agree on Congress’s power to declare war. 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Pulliam dismisses as “inapt Biblical imagery” Abraham Lincoln’s elegant formulation that the Constitution is the frame of silver for the apple of gold, which is the Declaration. Opinion | To construe the Constitution, look to the Declaration 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z Currently, there’s not even a bill in our own legislature that would end the state’s inapt vaccination exemptions. Colorado Editorial Roundup 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z The orchestra, meanwhile, tootled unrelated instrumental parts; lighting changed at random; and the backdrops, going up and down on squeaky pulleys, added inapt settings. The Radical Splendor of the L.A. Phil 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z The Baltimore Police Union’s president wrote in an open letter to “Saturday Night Live” that their recent sketch was a “grossly inapt portrayal” of the city’s police officers. Baltimore Police Union slams ‘SNL’ skit as a 'distorted representation' of city's officers 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z But the left’s retort — “This is a job interview, not a trial” — also seems inapt. Opinion | No matter what happens, Kavanaugh is being punished 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Justice Kagan responded that the analogy to Illinois and other states was inapt. Supreme Court Ruling Delivers a Sharp Blow to Labor Unions 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z “But it is wholly inapt to liken that morally repugnant order to a facially neutral policy denying certain foreign nationals the privilege of admission.” Trump’s Travel Ban Is Upheld by Supreme Court 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z It’s hard to imagine a film more inaptly named. Review | ‘Rebel in the Rye’: An all-too-conventional portrait of a literary iconoclast 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z It was, to put it mildly, an inapt comparison. ‘The Road to Jonestown’ tells horrifying tale of mass suicide 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z Pimco argues its board follows a rigorous process and called the comparison to Harbor Bond Fund inapt because its in-house funds can require it to perform additional work and assume additional risks. U.S. mutual fund trustees feel the heat of investor lawsuits 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z What was the state’s energy regulator, the inaptly named Railroad Commission, going to do about it? Despite science, Texas still rejects fracking link to quakes 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z With that imperative in mind, UH spent a year courting the Big 12, anticipating that the inaptly named conference would expand beyond its current membership. Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Japan and South Korea are inapt comparisons, given the minuscule number of ethnic minorities in either country. Racial Segregation in New York Schools Starts With Pre-K, Report Finds 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z For the remaining 1,037 schools, administrators chose the least aggressive and least effective approach, inaptly named "transformation." Closing Schools Is a Last Resort 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Description that is intentionally inapt, unsettling, or excessive is as old as Homer, whose similes, veering off in wild and unexpected tangents, Oswald reproduced brilliantly in “Memorial.” Alice Oswald’s Natural Terrors 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z For his part, my husband thought that, while not necessarily offensive, it was an inapt analogy . Drinking singani is not a religious experience 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z There is the small matter of the inaptly named demilitarized zone in the way - Korea's version of the Berlin Wall. The department pretending to run North Korea - BBC News 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z Certainly an inapt analogy to the Brady farce! Competitiveness Seen as a Virtue, at Least for Men 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z It seems inapt to call Véra’s love selfless, however: the two selves of the Nabokovs were valves of the same heart. Nabokov’s Silent Partner 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z The Commission will not apply Title II’s most odious and inapt sections, including 700 provisions of the agency’s rules. FCC Classifies Broadband Providers As Utilities In Net Neutrality Vote 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z It would erase the law’s inaptly named “sustainable growth rate.” Doc Fix: The Budget Gimmick That Actually Isn’t So Bad 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z A particularly egregious example was the most recent episode of the inaptly named Truthseeker, a program devoted to conspiracy theories. Inside the Bizarro World of 'Russia Today' 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z From the inaptly named trading floor of Van Hoisington’s investment company in Austin, there’s a commanding view of the Texas Hill Country. The Last Long Bond Bulls Bet On Falling Rates, Sluggish Economy 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z The anti-choice legislator infamously made his inapt comparison when the bill was initially up for consideration: Male politicians and their paternalistic abortion laws deserve a fight like this 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z At issue was the city’s plan to build a garbage facility on East 91st Street, inaptly named a marine transfer station. Smile! One of You Will Be the Next Mayor of New York 2013-07-25T15:17:11Z Their marriage was what has been sarcastically, but perhaps not inaptly, called by an English newspaper a "potato marriage;" that is—but no, it will not bear explanation. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z On a long route, the change from one coach into another, equally cramped, might not inaptly be said to resemble an exchange of prisoners. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z Presidents’ Day, the inaptly named holiday with a fickle apostrophe, came and went, as ever, with New Yorkers ignoring it other than perhaps to go shopping. City Room: A Presidential Tour, From Wall Street to 109th Street 2012-02-21T12:30:14Z I looked out and saw 'Squire Brookhouse passing on the opposite side of the street, and looking closer, I decided that Carnes' comparison was not inapt. Out of a Labyrinth 2012-02-17T03:00:38.887Z But of both we might not inaptly ask, “What are these amongst so many?” The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, November 1864 2012-02-04T03:00:16.007Z Someone remarked that he was in reality an Irishman who had escaped into Italy; and this facetious characterization was really not inapt. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z Both, indeed, were well-nigh perfect examples of their type; the mastiff and the wolfhound might perhaps have been a not inapt comparison. Loaded Dice 2012-01-04T03:00:36.343Z Art and science had their home there, while now as a whole it is regarded as the most benighted and barbarous portion of the earth and is, not inaptly, called "the dark continent." Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent 2011-12-24T03:07:57.647Z Mademoiselle Joliette, the inaptly named little girl, who had remained with us, roared with laughter. Fr?d?rique; vol. 1 2011-12-19T03:00:39.830Z These western highlands, therefore, may not inaptly be compared to an umbrella, sheltering the country further eastward from the rain. Cornwall 2011-12-05T03:00:38.530Z Indeed, in few instances has senseless indiscrimination done more mischief; for means inapt and injurious have been had recourse to, where skilful and timely interference would have had the happiest effects. A Treatise on Sheep: The Best Means for their Improvement, General Management, and the Treatment of their Diseases. 2011-12-04T03:00:03.890Z The second remained in the Gila country, became agricultural & settled in habit, irrigating their land & building pueblos, growing rich, effeminate & inapt at war. Aw-Aw-Tam Indian Nights Being the myths and legends of the Pimas of Arizona 2011-11-21T03:00:13.817Z They are more cleanly, but they are slow and inapt. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:08.903Z Such has often been said of others, who were passing through the same crisis of their mental history, not inaptly termed "the everlasting No!" The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z The Oak.—The chief object of worship was the oak, which has not inaptly been called "the king of the forest." The South Isles of Aran 2011-10-26T02:00:28.363Z Hurrying to the spot I met with a little adventure which it may not be inapt to relate. Birds and Man 2011-10-20T02:00:25.513Z And if, as I understand must be the case, his expressed agreement with Darwin touching natural selection not being the only cause of adaptive evolution has reference to this point, the quotation is singularly inapt. Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility 2011-10-16T02:00:14.153Z De Coster found modern French, with its rigidity of form, unsuitable to his subject and inapt to his genius. Flemish Legends 2011-10-10T02:00:21.467Z Every one indeed had heard of the good deeds of the descendants of this worthy, who were generally physicians, excellent ones, and whose name expressed not inaptly their numerous acts of charity. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z Philip is vague and blank, as he is evidently meant to be, and Cardinal Pole is a portrait of a character constitutionally inapt for breadth of action. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z So it is possible to efface a faultful past, and to acquire strength and fitness for work, to which we are by nature most inapt and indisposed. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z Mephistopheles, as the captain not inaptly called him, knew me, however, and took his cockroaches from my hand, although perfectly frantic when any one else went near him. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z The diamond which is known as "the Sanci," or, as it is sometimes written, "Sancy," has been not inaptly termed a Sphinx among stones. Stories about Famous Precious Stones 2011-08-31T02:01:42.217Z She had been to school long enough to learn, and would be a very inapt scholar if she had not learned some of the ways of the street, in thirteen years. Hot corn: Life Scenes in New York Illustrated 2011-08-31T02:01:20.473Z The Times in those days was "run" entirely in the interest of a strong faction not inaptly termed "carpet-baggers." Kitty's Conquest 2011-08-30T02:00:36.270Z This region, which resembles one of the immeasurable steppes of Asia, has not inaptly been termed 'The Great American Desert.' Colorado?The Bright Romance of American History 2011-08-25T02:00:28.183Z But to all that are not altogether strangers in our Israel, it will appear, that this title is not inaptly applied to the subject and design of this treatise. A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods 2011-08-21T02:00:31.760Z If the Sanci be the Sphinx of diamonds the Great Mogul may not inaptly be called the Meteor among them. Stories about Famous Precious Stones 2011-08-31T02:01:42.217Z They have been not inaptly compared to two boxes piled on one another. The Story of the Toys 2011-08-05T02:00:49.720Z Then we left the hall of unwilling representatives; clambered another flight of stairs, and came upon what the local press had not inaptly termed "the citadel." Kitty's Conquest 2011-08-30T02:00:36.270Z Most of her works might, indeed, not inaptly be called 'Looking Backward.' Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z I stood leaning on the spikes—not inapt emblems of such Christian love as I had there been made acquainted with. The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy 2011-07-22T02:00:15.747Z The Archimedian lever found a resting-place in his brain, and sundry of his thoughts seem not inapt to upheave the world. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 2011-06-14T02:00:20.590Z A more remarkable curiosity may be found on that bench or middle plateau of the Dalles, lying between the upper and the lower Taylor's Falls landings, in what has been not inaptly styled "The Wells." Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z The grey and cruel nurse, custom or religion, crucifies and torments the child, feeding herself upon his agony to false fresh youth; an allegory not even literally inapt. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z They have been styled the antlered monarchs of the forests, and this description is not inapt. Memoirs of Orange Jacobs 2011-05-01T02:00:10.143Z The condition of the country, during the second important juncture, may be not inaptly illustrated by the common figure of a strong man struggling in a morass. Inquiry Into the Origin and Course of Political Parties in the United States 2011-04-24T02:00:09.423Z His abrupt and broken sentences, his sudden outbreaks of intelligence or passion, were not inaptly conveyed by the character of a handwriting which was bold, careless, and hurried. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:09.197Z The wing, both when at rest and when in motion, may not inaptly be compared to the blade of an ordinary screw propeller as employed in navigation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z The few and great words cited above occur, it will be observed, in a poem affording throughout no inapt allegory of Blake’s life and works. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z Less perhaps than any other writer, not of France, but of modern Europe, Flaubert yields admission to the inexact, the abstract, the vaguely inapt expression which is the bane of ordinary methods of composition. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z The words are not inapt: his power is Pauline. Socialism and Democracy in Europe 2011-03-15T02:00:12.887Z On January 6, 1811, he writes to Hogg: “I think we may not inaptly define soul as the most supreme, superior and distinguished abstract appendage to the nature of anything.” The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources 2011-03-08T03:00:45.010Z This is perhaps the most inapt of all the inapt observations in his amazing piece of criticism. The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z In other respects, General Howe had, not inaptly, described him as "very unlike other men when at chapel, but not much so, when among horses in the stable, or selling saddles in the shop." A Song of a Single Note A Love Story 2011-02-24T03:01:01.930Z "Glorious!" said the artist, startling us all with his vehemence and inapt exclamation. On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada 2011-02-09T03:00:51.093Z "The greatest of these three," began the vicar, inaptly, because he was flustered. What Not A Prophetic Comedy 2011-02-09T03:00:50.423Z His feelings might not inaptly be compared to those of a commandant of a garrison, who sees his stronghold menaced by an enemy he had never suspected. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:20.520Z Since the days of the Mermaid the authors and actors of London have dearly loved and deeply enjoyed such odd little fraternities of wit as are typified, not inaptly, by the City of Lushington. Shakespeare's England 2011-01-30T03:00:17.313Z It has been not inaptly termed the Hymn-book of the second Temple. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z The older man bowed his head and replied, quite inaptly: "I understand!" The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode Modern newspapers have been described, not altogether inaptly, as sheets of advertisements with news and discussions printed on the back. The Salvaging Of Civilisation Following their example, he saw below an extraordinary-looking craft, which might not inaptly have been compared to a huge tin can set on a gigantic shingle. Terry's Trials and Triumphs The comparison was not inapt; at least, it gave Richard the appearance of a man in whose body destructive poison was working. The Progressionists, and Angela. On account of the interest shown by the compiler in the ecclesiastical aspects of the history, his work has been not inaptly called the “Ecclesiastical Chronicle of Jerusalem.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z We may liken these floating globules of mist to the dust of the earth which floats in the air, and it has not been inaptly called water-dust. Nature's Miracles, Volume 1 Familiar Talks on Science—World-Building and Life. Earth, Air and Water. He has not inaptly been named "a domestic Hamlet." Maria Edgeworth He greeted me with bland cordiality, notwithstanding the inapt hour of my call. A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois It has been remarked, not inaptly, that this sudden awakening of the man in the scholar is a reproduction of the Faust legend with living actors. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) As I have before said, I was not inapt at algebra and geometry, but was too indolent to acquire any mastery in mathematics. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 Odd it is that those accustomed to hotel life are inapt to think of the trepidation of the novice or new comer. Dorothy's Tour She had heard the shouts of merriment, and faintly heard the screams, and had not even looked to see the cause, but F�licie had found no inapt pupil. A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade "They've had an unlucky birthday," he said, not inaptly, and rather courteously, as he took them. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 The condition of this parish—and others in the district were probably not much better—has been not inaptly described as “an unploughed field covered with tangled weeds and thorns, and sheltering many foul creatures.” Border Raids and Reivers This look of distinction, which in him was as marked in form as in feature, has been called, not inaptly, thoroughbredness. Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 So it has not inaptly been said that she denounces the slave-holders only when she is in Yankee territory, and criticises the Yankees only when she is in the Southern States. Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century Medicine has been—not inaptly styled—"The daughter of dreams." Allopathy and Homoeopathy Before the Judgement of Common Sense! In estimating his merits, the genius of George Cruikshank may not inaptly be compared to a diamond. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. These last were hasty observers, scarcely waiting to adjust the eye to the lens, fluttered, and prolific of inapt exclamations, which too often betrayed the superficial character of the investigation. The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories Herein the mission and the achievement of Lucian—first and greatest of the writers of ‘Dialogues of the Dead’—are not inaptly stated. By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects Servile work of every kind was done on Sunday, and at harvest time the carts and wagons were in use during the entire day "carting souls to hell," as Father Vianney not inaptly expressed it. The Life of Blessed John B. Marie Vianney, Curé of Ars With a Novena and Litany to this Zealous Worker in the Vineyard of the Lord She acted languidly, her enunciation was imperfect, her gestures were forced and inapt. Berenice It has been not inaptly called the bible of democracy. Whitman A Study And Mrs. Ford may not inaptly be compared to the chilly spectator on the dark side of the pane. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 One of the bed-rooms was called, not inaptly, the lion’s den. A Walk from London to Fulham First the fashionable get the apt phrase, and bandy it about in inapt connections until even the novelty of its discordance has ceased to charm, and thereafter it sinks down, down. Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences The fact was that the relation between these young persons abounded in such oddities as were not inaptly symbolised by assignations that had a good deal more appearance than motive. The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2 If it conveys the impression that he is careless or inapt in the use of language, or that the word is not always the fit word, the best word, the saying does him injustice. Whitman A Study The class that laughed openly at his first tremblingly bashful, and ludicrously inapt answer at quiz, was indelibly photographed upon his memory. A Breath of Prairie and other stories The six rough-appearing haymakers used their knives with a freedom to which Ashton was unaccustomed, but their faces were clean, their behavior quiet, and their occasional remarks by no means inapt. Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation The inner peridium with its several mouths can be, not inaptly, compared to a "pepper-box." The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth At present, numbers of them resemble a lawless banditti, and may not inaptly be termed, Imperium in imperio. A Historical Survey of the Customs, Habits, & Present State of the Gypsies He was not at all sure but that an interference would be seriously inapt. Sunlight Patch The irregularly built little town of St. Ives, which has not inaptly been called the "Art Centre of England", is made up of two distinct parts. The Cornish Riviera I do not think a Christian should desire punishment to fall upon his enemy, though such explanation of the sentence is not inapt. Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost The general outline of the wrist and hand has been compared not inaptly to that of “an inverted spoon.” Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. I suspect, however, that these remarks might not inaptly apply to the inhabitants of the British capital, as well as those of Berlin. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France This noble book might not be inaptly described as, —a whole which, irregular in parts, Yet left a grand impression on the mind. Famous Women: George Sand Redruth and Camborne are important mining towns to which no one would go in search of the picturesque, and the bleak and barren surroundings may not inaptly be called the "Black Country" of Cornwall. The Cornish Riviera So far as appearance went the comparison was not inapt. The New Tenant But when the pope declares the sun represents the papal authority, while the moon represents the emperor's, then not only the application is inapt and foolish, but the very foundation is evil. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood It seems to me, Cousin, that’s no inapt picture of life. One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford In fact, since quantification is the object of all mathematical operations, mathematics may be not inaptly defined as the science of the determinations of limits. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles Everything suggests beauty and peace and contentment, and as one drinks in the scene it is borne in upon one that the comparison with the Garden of Eden is not inapt. Across the Equator A Holiday Trip in Java Let me spare, As best I may, her modest privacy, While under Fancy's not inapt disguise I give substantial truth, and deal with no Unreal beings or fantastic facts: Bear witness to it, Linda! The Woman Who Dared In his commentary upon the passage, therefore, he substitutes “si opus sit” for the apostle’s words; thus, of course, assuming that St. Paul had adopted an inapt phrase to express his meaning. Spare Hours Minds of this kind are inapt at invention. Essay on the Creative Imagination The sentences were too long, the metaphors violent and inapt. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History In studying the literature of the transatlantic species, we at once stumble upon the reason for calling this avian family by the somewhat peculiar and apparently inapt name of nuthatch. Our Bird Comrades I can only have been inapt, I make out, to have retained so positively joyless a sense of it all, to be aware of most of it now but as dim confusion, as bewildered anxiety. A Small Boy and Others Indeed, a friend of mine not inaptly describes it as the "gobbler; " and it does really "gobble" up any insect it is used against. Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. Again, orientation in a single direction: the inventor is, so to speak, polarized; he is the slave of music, of mechanics, of mathematics; often inapt at everything outside his own particular sphere. Essay on the Creative Imagination He is known by an offensive and inapt title—the green-tailed towhee. Birds of the Rockies He had been a leader among them, and had received the name of "Rough and Ready," suggested in part, no doubt, by his name, Rufus; but the appellation described not inaptly his prominent traits. Rufus and Rose Or, The Fortunes of Rough and Ready But the individual who touches our pity, or concern, or affection, demands a special title—usually absurdly inapt. Edge of the Jungle The name was not inapt, for Mr. Ferris showed a round, chubby face, with big, dancing black eyes and ringlets of dark hair clustered on 144 his brow. Patty's Social Season The peninsula pointing northwards, with its neighbouring islands, save that the islands lie to the west and not to the east, might pass for no inapt figure of the northern land of the Dane. Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine This is a Hogmanay play, and not confined to children alone, which for that, as well as other reasons, will not inaptly close this chapter. Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk Aunt Elizabeth pulled it out after she had gone to bed, and knit two or three "rounds," so as not to utterly discourage her inapt pupil. A Little Girl in Old Boston Politeness with him, assumed the airs and grimaces of a French dancing-master, which personage he was not unfrequently and not inaptly said to resemble. Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac The beautiful valley, most inaptly called, of the Mauvaisterre, was then an unbroken wilderness. Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States It was prepared in colored inks, by Mr. Parker, a theological student with a turn for penmanship, and lithographed, and was sold by him to eke out the avails of what are inaptly termed "supplies." Saint Patrick 1887 Its name is a rather indefinite, but not inapt characterization. The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion The unfinished muffin dropped from the old woman’s hand, and she turned with a deep sigh to the window, where the blank prospect was a not inapt reflection of her own blank despair. My Doggie and I The finding of an individual in a large emigrant ship may not inaptly be compared to the finding of a needle in a haystack. The Young Trawler Young, sanguine, strong, and active, Fred, to use a not inapt phrase, devoured the ground with his legs! Twice Bought A curious, and, as we think, not inapt parallel, might be drawn between Mr. Lincoln and one of the most striking figures in modern history—Henry IV. of France. Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings When adopting this system in part, he would speak of "unifying" this, that or the other stop, and this somewhat inapt phrase has now been adopted by other builders and threatens to become general. The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments So great an assembly of those whom the Chevalier afterwards not inaptly termed "little kings," was by no means unusual at that period. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. There is little that is novel, and nothing that is to be rated as constructive innovation, in this sketch of what might not inaptly be called peace by neglect. An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation The great East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad, which has not inaptly been called "the backbone of the rebellion," intersected this parallelogram at Chattanooga. Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure Perhaps, on the other hand, he found the Subject too great for his Space; and so has left it disproportioned, which the German is not inapt to do. Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 As such it remains a treatise of great value; but as a political argument calculated to shape and determine the legislation of Congress, it was singularly inapt. Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 His representations to the Prince were ineffectual, for a stronger influence had arisen to baffle the endeavours of Charles's friends; and he was under the sway of one who was, not inaptly, termed "his Delilah." Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. A stamen has been called, not inaptly, a vegetable husband. Plain Facts for Old and Young For to my mind Dostoyevski is a greater exponent of naturalism than Zola, whom Lemaitre not inaptly styles "an epic poet." Essays on Scandinavian Literature Yet even then his instinct had been a healthy one; his boyish characterisation of Fetters, schoolboy, was not an inapt description of Fetters, man—mortgage shark, labour contractor and political boss. The Colonel's Dream Not inaptly has hell been described as "disqualification in the face of opportunity." Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective The school-master is not responsible for the apt and the inapt pupil. The Eugenic Marriage, Volume I. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies It is, indeed, rather theological than historical, so that it has been not inaptly compared to the Platonic, in contrast to the Xenophontic, account of Socrates, the theology seems like that of a post-evangelical era. The Religious Situation This evokes a feeling which I may not inaptly style, hero worship, on the part of the men. With The Immortal Seventh Division Then, too, the numerous parasitic plants, making use of their neighbors as instruments for their own advancement, not inaptly represent a certain human class. The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America Not inaptly has it been called 'the second Magna Charta,' 'a pillar of cloud by day and of fire by night,' in the settlement and government of the Northwestern States. Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective He is responsible for his system which dictates how he will differentiate between the apt and the inapt pupil, in order to achieve the best results without injustice to either. The Eugenic Marriage, Volume I. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies The whole flower has a droll but pleasing form, and I have heard it not inaptly called "Grandmother's Frilled Cap." Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. This rendering is a terse but not inapt translation of Einstein’s own way of interpreting his results. The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 The pleasure of many a dinner is impaired by the fear or the consciousness that inapt peasants are playing havoc with the treasures of art on which the courses are served. Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O The period following the treaty of peace with Great Britain in 1783, which terminated the War of the Revolution, has been not inaptly designated "the critical period of American history." Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective Its Indian name, signifying 'the chosen place,' was not inapt for our meeting ground. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 Cassiodorus is fond of comparing him to Joseph at the Court of Pharaoh, nor is the comparison an inapt one. The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator It has raised itself to such a pitch of importance that it has been not inaptly termed the fourth estate of the realm. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864 Actually it is the manner in which a man-servant acknowledges an order from his master or mistress, and is not inaptly called "the coachman's salute." Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada Nor did we find this description at all inapt as we drove over its excellent roads during the fine July weather. British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car Being A Record Of A Five Thousand Mile Tour In England, Wales And Scotland The underlying spiritual condition is not inaptly described by Dr. Lloyd Morgan as "a sheep-through-the-gapishness." Anthropology Nor is it lawful that this should be gainsaid; while the Imams themselves may not inaptly be compared to the fathers of our Christian Church. The Future of Islam Crowning the rich vale of Touraine, with the river winding below, and reflecting its castle towers in the still water, this time-honoured home of our Plantagenet kings has been not inaptly compared to Windsor. Joan of Arc And, after all, it was a big thing,—this boarding a first-rate ship over the decks of another hostile ship, not inaptly characterized in the fleet as "Nelson's patent bridge." The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain Gerda wasn't highly civilized, was hardly passably educated, and keen would be an inapt word for that queer, remote, woodland mind of hers.... Dangerous Ages The reigns of the first two Georges might not inaptly be termed the Walpolian period. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century Students of the Sheriat have not inaptly compared the Koranic law to a dead man's hand, rigid and cold, and only to be loosened when the hand itself shall have been cut away. The Future of Islam The words not inaptly describe Arnold's method of handling personal and literary pretentiousness. Matthew Arnold Not inaptly, we conceive, has religion been likened to a madman's robe, for the least puff of reason parts it and shows the wearer's nakedness. An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles Strangely, inaptly, the line of verse she had just read sung itself in her mind as she rushed. Dangerous Ages He confines it to what may not inaptly be called the field of the unverifiable. An Introduction to Philosophy This unique naval structure was promptly nicknamed "a cheese-box on a raft," and the designation was not at all inapt. A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: A History He was a careless, reckless blade, indifferent alike, it would seem, to sun and storm—and making of life a circle, that would not inaptly have illustrated the favorite text of Sardanapalus. Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia The symbolism is not inapt, since Helwyse, while afflicted with pride and ambition as abstract as boundless, had, at the same time, a logical, fearless brain, and keen delight in beauty. Idolatry A Romance This thought-form may not inaptly be compared to a Leyden jar, the coating of living essence being symbolised by the jar, and the thought energy by the charge of electricity. Thought-Forms They are so easily wounded, so inapt to resist, so harassed by scruples, so astonished at troubles they cannot comprehend, that their very sensitiveness prepares them for suffering. The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance For a few years there was a tendency to over-emphasis in both, and, in recitation, to teach gesture, for which as a nation we are singularly inapt. The Education of Catholic Girls She had always resented its presence, so inaptly named, on the fringe of Little Ansdore's greatness. Joanna Godden The parable is not by any means inapt. Side Lights It is not an inapt name for his state of mind. Verner's Pride Their relations with the Paramount Power, which have been not inaptly described as those of subordinate alliance, are governed by treaties and engagements of which the terms are not altogether uniform. India, Old and New Truly the poor child did look like a lovely country rose, as Miss Simpson had not inaptly called her. Gladys, the Reaper From the mildness and congeniality of the air to persons of weak and relaxed habits, it has been not inaptly termed, "The Montpelier of England." Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 The mighty statesman was not distinguished as a letter-writer; like Themistocles, he might have boasted that, though he was inapt where small accomplishments were concerned, he converted a small state into a great empire. Side Lights The simile is not inapt, as applied to the first efforts of the early English, or Semi-Saxon literature, during the latter part of the twelfth and the whole of the thirteenth century. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction In Chinese society, woman occupies a shaded hemisphere—not inaptly represented by the dark portion in their national symbol the Yinyang-tse or Diagram of the Dual principles. The Awakening of China From the feminine point of view, indeed, the tale might be not inaptly labelled "Treatise on Cub-hunting." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 28, 1917 The character of Dee, our English "Faust," as he is not inaptly called, has both been misrepresented and misunderstood. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 Newport, Rhode Island, is not an inapt example of the class of which I speak. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 The comparison is not inapt, but the pictorial element in Hudibras is not its best claim to our praise. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Toleration he considered due to an inapt distinction between freedom to think and freedom to talk, and any magistrate "while he thinks himself right ... ought to enforce what he thinks." Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham In fact it has been not inaptly said that the rule of mediæval Europe was divided amid three powers—the emperor, the pope, and the University of Paris. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante) Why, he fetches up all the inapt, disagreeable, and harrowing things in his life. New Tabernacle Sermons Ehrenfels believes that the number of men inapt for satisfactory reproduction is much larger than that of women, and that therefore when these are left out of account, a polygynic marriage order becomes necessary. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society It is the vice of the clodhopper, unattractive to women or inapt to court them. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy It is sluggish and inapt for high purposes; it still remains subject to ‘the law of sin and death’; and so is not like the Father who breathed into it the breath of life. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) The Bishop of Derry, commenting on these rhythmic novelties, likens them to the sound of a stick drawn by a city gamin sharply across the area railings,—a not inapt comparison. Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems The shortness of the joints, together with their growing on the top of each other, has been not inaptly compared to a jointed finger. Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation Antonyms: See inapt. aptitude, n. proneness, propensity, leaning, proclivity, inclination. Putnam's Word Book From the German standpoint the decade from the fall of Bismarck to the end of the century may not inaptly be described as the spacious days of William II and the modern German Empire. William of Germany In this division, which is plainly suggested by the Aristotelian division of Politics in the large sense, the term Monastica not inaptly expresses the reference that Ethics has to the conduct of men as individuals. Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics The term "struggle for existence" is, then, not an inapt one. Creation and Its Records To return an inapt yell would be worse than silence. The High School Freshmen Dick & Co.'s First Year Pranks and Sports It is not inapt to say that the real center of the rebellion against Spain is, as it has been for years, at Hongkong. The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, Including the Ladrones, Hawaii, Cuba and Porto Rico The Eldorado of the Orient Not inaptly was the dungeon styled the "Stone Coffin." The Star-Chamber, Volume 2 An Historical Romance The author then refers to Locke's division of law, which, although faulty in the analysis, and inaptly expressed, tallies in the main with what he has laid down. Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics It started in the republican way, went on for over a century in republican habits, and had the priceless heirloom of principles and traditions that were certainly life-giving, and may not inaptly be termed national. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 56, June, 1862 His standard of taste, as of manners, has not inaptly been likened to that of a Dutch sailor. Love affairs of the Courts of Europe He compared his feelings, not inaptly, to those of a cat watching a mouse through a window. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories The young wife in her lonely house down in Cambridge which the artist not inaptly called The Moated Grange! John Caldigate He has not inaptly been styled the Tyrtaeus of modern English poetry, and one of the most chaste and tender as well as original of poets. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 407, December 24, 1829 This has turned out to be, as might have been expected, an economy to those who fall in with its ways, which citizens are wholly inapt and unprepared to do. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 The evolution of the calendar is not an inapt illustration of the methods of science, and of the part which it has played in shaping the destiny of man. Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 The son of a Scotch minister, he gave early indications of an artistic turn; and though he was a negligent and inapt scholar, he was a sedulous drawer of faces and figures. Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance A curious, and, as we think, not inapt parallel, might be drawn between Mr. Lincoln and one of the most striking figures in modern history,—Henry IV. of France. Abraham Lincoln It has been said, not inaptly, that the relation of football to physical culture is much the same as that of the bull-fight to agriculture. Theory of the Leisure Class Their political or administrative existence is centred in three focuses of action, which may not inaptly be compared to the different nervous centres which convey motion to the human body. Democracy in America — Volume 1 One who saw him thus at Thebes applied to him not inaptly, the lines of Euripides, Humbled to man, laid by the godhead's pride, He comes to Dirce and Ismenus' side. Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans "Quaker-looking" was not an inapt phrase for the person whom the maid ushered into the room through this door. The Market-Place Age and obesity had made her inapt for love, but she took a keen interest in the amatory affairs of the young. Moon and Sixpence Especially were I and my sister Eliza inapt in this particular. My Bondage and My Freedom Mr. Dodge, whose Christian name, thanks to a pious ancestry, was Steadfast, partook of the qualities that his two appellations not inaptly expressed. Homeward Bound or, the Chase But how shall we describe that faith which is often mentioned in the New Testament, which so marked the character of Dorcas, and which, perhaps, may not be inaptly called the principle of discipleship? Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II Nevertheless, because everything in Balzac seems contradictory, when he is likened by one of his friends to the sea, which is one and indivisible, we perceive that the comparison is not inapt. Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings In this respect he has been not inaptly compared to Ovid. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal My fellow servants were neither indifferent, dull, nor inapt. My Bondage and My Freedom Roland Yorke was not an inapt type of an angry lion just then, with his panting breath, his blazing eye, and his working nostrils. The Channings Not inaptly has the one river—all gentleness, yieldingness, and suavity—won a feminine, the other—all force, impetuosity and stern will—obtained for itself a masculine, appellative! The Roof of France Its northern banks are clothed with thick woods, shutting out the barren frozen district beyond, not inaptly called the “Cursed Land.” The Fur Country Seventy Degrees North Latitude If it mean the 'light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world', it is an inapt term; for reason is supernatural. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Such were some of his reflections, over his agent's advice; and it may be imagined that the Machiavellian Mr. McKeown had fallen upon a very inapt pupil. Lord Kilgobbin Not inaptly might the cloisters of Helstonleigh be compared to this, that day, when the college boys were let out of school at one o'clock. The Channings Their political or administrative existence is centred in three foci of action, which may not inaptly be compared to the different nervous centres which convey motion to the human body. American Institutions and Their Influence "Ah, here comes the prodigal son!" joyously exclaimed Eva, who ran to meet her favourite brother, oblivious of the smiles produced by her unflatteringly inapt remark. An Algonquin Maiden A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada Modern philosophy had no sooner triumphed over ancient religion and France over Germany than an extraordinary reaction, inaptly termed the romantic, took place in poetry. Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 Ten years ago it might not inaptly have been termed "The last clearing in the World." Life in the Backwoods People everywhere do not blame their economic predicament on inapt administrations, or on specific leaders. The Belgian Curtain Europe after Communism He would lay traps for them and play things without any meaning, inapt potpourris; and he would let them think that he had composed them. Jean-Christophe, Volume I The poor lost creature, whose feeble intelligence was so slow to discern, so inapt to reflect, looked at him with the heart's instantaneous perception, and saw her doom. The Fallen Leaves So much Alaric had learnt, and had been no inapt scholar. The Three Clerks This had a sound that contrasted not inaptly with the seriousness of the hills, and suggested an origin not unlike that of the feasts in the Lacedemonian worship of the Dioscuri. From the Easy Chair — Volume 01 The title Alone strikes me, on reflection, as rather an inapt one for this volume. Alone There is no reason for calling officers of that arm inapt, when battalions although established in position are not absolutely on the same line, with absolutely equal intervals. Battle Studies Across what was then, not inaptly, described by writers as an arid and repulsive desert, there advanced a procession of the most unique and awe-inspiring character. My Native Land The United States: its Wonders, its Beauties, and its People; with Descriptive Notes, Character Sketches, Folk Lore, Traditions, Legends and History, for the Amusement of the Old and the Instruction of the Young Not an inapt quotation, for your fallen predecessor in Albemarle Street, to whom you must give the coup du main— Murray, long enough his country's pride. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 Kensal Green or Père la Chaise, cultivated as kitchen gardens, would not inaptly represent the general character of the rural districts of China which I have visited. Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin If, in any instance, the illustration seems inapt or imperfect, it may be thrown aside, and reference made to the definition itself. A Lie Never Justifiable Certainly, though, it is a favorite subject; it may even not inaptly be called our national subject. The American Child In that department, however, I was, and remained, very inapt. Autobiography The terms primary and secondary sex characteristics, though inapt, must be allowed to stand. The Glands Regulating Personality The fables of northwest Africa employ the jackal instead of Reynard, whose place the sycophant of the lion not inaptly fills. Moorish Literature Indeed, the skin has not inaptly been styled the third lung. Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics But as a pupil I was always most inapt and grievous, in dates and in matters mathematical especially; so that I gave her inexhaustible patience many a sad hour. Hawthorne and His Circle The poet Dryden not inaptly calls the year 1666, in which the Great Fire at London added its horrors to those of pestilence and war, the Annus Mirabilis, or "Year of Wonders." General History for Colleges and High Schools Haydon's prayers, which have been not inaptly described as 'begging letters to the Almighty,' are invariably couched in terms that would be appropriate in an appeal to the President of a Celestial Academy. Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century The gossipping diarist was no inapt observer of the ways of men, and had no small experience. Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 It was no difficult matter—in fact it happens every day—for the beautiful woman to lull the wise man into what is not inaptly called a fool's paradise. Waverley Novels — Volume 12 This was not inaptly termed "rocking horse meter." History of American Literature Nor is it inapt that the typical lover should recall Rome by his name: O, Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou. Without Prejudice When excited she picked out the one that first presented itself and fired it off like a gun, the more inapt the better. A Prisoner in Fairyland In 1585 a Japanese religious embassy was received at Rome; and by that date no less than eleven daimyo,—or "kings," as the Jesuits not inaptly termed them—had become converted. Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation It is not inapt to state that the rifle had more commendations bestowed on it than the hunter by the Wangwana. How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley It is dapper; it is noble in the bad sense, in the sense in which to be noble is to be inapt for humble service. Pragmatism I have none,—I am as weak and inapt as an untaught child—the music of my heart is silenced! Ardath Contemplation alone will hold us all as inapt and as impotent as the old Monks of Athos. The Blind Spot The phalanx goes swinging away over the dusty parade ground, the subalterns up and down the files muttering angrily to each inapt recruit to "Keep your distance:" or "Don't advance your shield." A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life Kalkbrenner may not inaptly be called the Delille of pianist- composers, for his nature and fate remind us somewhat of the poet. Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 1 Ten years ago, it might not inaptly have been termed "The last clearing in the world." Roughing It in the Bush Mrs. Bower's description of Miss Nancarrow as a lad in petticoats was not inapt, yet she was by no means heavy or awkward. Thyrza Methinks, most reverend Opus, not inapt Are these fair views; arise they from Seville? Count Julian The Middle Ages, so inaptly called "dark," are in truth little understood. The Interdependence of Literature Having left England in a serious mood, and having already tasted with tolerable freedom of the pleasures and frivolities of life, he was not in an inapt humour to observe, to enquire, and to reflect. Sybil, or the Two Nations The wing, both when at rest and when in motion," Pettigrew declared, "may not inaptly be compared to the blade of an ordinary screw propeller as employed in navigation. The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest Her defense was weak and inapt but she attained her object. War and Peace The book and stationery business, though an humble one, seems to me not inapt nor altogether uncongenial. Waifs and Strays Part 1 As for the Kaiser, he is dreadfully poor; inapt for battle himself. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 06 Certainly Helmstone on the east and Westport on the west had managed to eclipse it altogether, and its peaceful sleepiness made the dormouse comparison by no means inapt. We Two, a novel Miss Gwynne's appellation was not inaptly chosen, still he would have preferred to know her more conventional title. Other Things Being Equal But it serves, not inaptly, as a text to point out an important scientific truth, namely, that there are not two such qualities of the mind, but only one. The Soul of the Far East The iron jaw, the aquiline nose, the somewhat sunken cheek, strikingly recalled the character of the hard Roman race, and might not inaptly have suggested to a painter a model for the younger Brutus. Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes This region, which resembles one of the immeasurable steppes of Asia, has not inaptly been termed "the great American desert." Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains His nervous system was remarkably developed, and his body might not inaptly be compared to one of the Rhumkorff's bobbins of which the thread, several hundred yards in length, is permeated throughout by electric fluid. Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space Not inaptly is it written: "To escape from fire men will plunge into boiling water." Kai Lung's Golden Hours "What are you thinking of, Katharine?" he asked suspiciously, noticing her tone of dreaminess and the inapt words. Night and Day Besides the corroboree they also would assemble for what might not inaptly be termed evening prayers, which consisted of a poetical recital of the events of the day. The Adventures of Louis De Rougemont This phase of history, which has been not inaptly termed the 'Efflorescence,' is still, to a large extent, with us. The World Set Free Renouard guessed in him a man whom an incurable habit of investigation and analysis had made gentle and indulgent; inapt for action, and more sensitive to the thoughts than to the events of existence. Within the Tides |
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