| 单词 | apposite |
| 例句 | Well, as one character says all too appositely, “I have a pretty good idea what’s going to happen.” | 'Johnny Baseball': Babe Ruth Sings at American Repertory Theater 2010-06-09T21:49:00Z There is something peculiarly apposite about Mr. Bourne’s setting. Ballet Review: This Ballet Season in Britain, a Cinderella Complex 2010-12-21T13:30:03Z We started doing movies that we called “comfort watches” — something from history that we thought was somehow either apposite to the pandemic or an antidote to it. Reviewing a Wild Year in Art With the ‘Culture Gabfest’ 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z The parallel could hardly be more apposite with the revolution in Cairo against the implacable but finally vanquished reign of Hosni Mubarak. Simon Rattle: Baton charge 2011-02-15T21:30:00Z Ruskin had defended the painter against critical attacks, and soon Effie was modelling for his appositely titled picture The Order of Release. John Ruskin's marriage: what really happened 2013-03-29T16:00:01Z Air sickness bags would probably be more apposite. | 'The Hallway Trilogy': Love Thy Neighbor? Yeah, Right 2011-02-25T03:00:00Z Its “Feet, don’t fail me now!” refrain was apposite for a musician whose typical concert puts his audience through a four-hour workout. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z As Cole is an art connoisseur, it is apposite to compare his book with the old masters that he has studied. Open City by Teju Cole ? review 2011-08-06T23:05:38Z Alasdair Warwood, Brighton: "When I saw the Guardian's request for G2 pictures I kept my eye open for naturally occurring versions of it - this one seemed very apposite to the theme." The G2 calendar 2011: runners up 2010-12-17T08:00:00Z Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/Christian Sinibaldi for the Guardian Finding a fairytale Japanese teahouse sprouting from wooden stilts in a corridor of the Victoria and Albert museum is an unexpected yet curiously apposite experience. 1:1 with the V&A's Small Spaces 2010-06-09T20:30:00Z I doubt whether this diversity of cultural reference is strictly apposite to Mr. Koubi’s Algerian quest. Review: A Work That Conjures Desert Sands and Whirlwinds 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z Along the way you'll pass some of the places that inspired their music, such as Strawberry Field and Penny Lane, accompanied by lively, knowledgeable commentary and tunes at apposite moments. Five Reasons to Visit Liverpool 2012-10-21T15:00:00Z He mentions a friend who gave him an amusingly apposite definition. Lonely? It’s time to brush up your intimacy skills 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z No corporation is perfect, but I think it is apposite that BP should be hauled across the coals in this kind of debate. Crude awakening: BP and the Tate 2010-06-30T20:31:00Z It's a half-decent heavy rock album buried under layers of production and gratuitous faffing, which is an entirely apposite description of this show. Guns N' Roses - review 2010-10-14T20:30:00Z It is three-dimensional and uses sculptural pedestals – but somehow it does not seem apposite or helpful to call it sculpture. Sculpture's lost in the third dimension 2010-05-12T20:35:00Z B played some of Tristan which seems particularly apposite today. Unseen WH Auden diary sheds light on famous poem and personal life 2013-06-26T08:00:03Z Photograph: Linda Nylind I don't know if I'm going to be able to convey – surely the apposite word – the full extent of my love of the tube. Underground, Overground by Andrew Martin – review 2012-05-24T08:00:03Z Foucault’s maxim is relevant for anyone interested in the arts, but particularly apposite for critics, who are obliged to perceive and reflect quickly, relying on deeply grooved instincts and memories. Dance Review: ?The Work The Work? by Fitzgerald & Stapleton 2010-05-24T21:26:00Z His portrait of Lord Home of the Hirsel was particularly apposite, with the former prime minister's elongated figure strategically placed at the edge of the canvas – the epitome of aristocratic diffidence. Avigdor Arikha obituary 2010-05-11T18:08:00Z The play ends with Alvita and her husbands singing along to Chaka Khan’s “I’m Every Woman,” which is both apposite and wrong. Review: In ‘The Wife of Willesden,’ a Literary Marriage Falters 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z Eager and apposite collaborators, both are fascinated by language, whether literal or compositional, and concerned with situating music within broader artistic and cultural contexts. Music Review: Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet at Montclair State 2013-05-12T21:34:28Z It seemed that West had been granted a couple of minutes by the network to pontificate about whatever he felt was apposite to the moment. What Just Happened at the Video Music Awards? 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Watching Ms. Ruhl’s playful triptych about the intersection of belief and make-believe in a slightly down-at-the-heels, formerly ecclesiastical setting is sweetly apposite. | 'Passion Play': Sarah Ruhl?s Play Within a Play at Irondale Center 2010-05-13T03:53:00Z The direction, by the Mint’s artistic director, Jonathan Bank, is appealing and apposite. Review: ‘The New Morality,’ a Vintage Play at the Mint 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Last summer, the company found a disused mill where it appositely and imaginatively staged a gripping adaptation of Charles Dickens's novel Hard Times. Manchester Lines – review 2012-06-23T23:05:45Z He was expert at cunningly inserting apposite objects into the composition. Guglielmo Galvin obituary 2013-03-08T14:20:22Z But Mars resolved to write a more apposite song. Bruno Mars: Unorthodox Jukebox – review 2012-12-09T00:05:56Z I suppose we shouldn't be irked that all politicians wear makeup to go on television; it's obvious, but as a symbol it's undeniably apposite – the gentle, accepted cover-up. Russell Brand: what I made of Morning Joe and Question Time 2013-06-28T19:06:09Z It was apposite to our situation, and it would certainly become appropriate to Rushdie's. Clash of the Booker titans 2013-05-23T13:57:00Z That this still feels apposite on a first watch almost five decades later is perhaps the most crushing blow of all. I’ve never seen … Chinatown 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z That phrase is apposite, given that he once thought of becoming an actor. My hero: Michael Mayne 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z With the revival airing this week on GOLD, it seems an apposite time to revisit Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn's vintage political satire. Catch-up TV guide: from Grand Hotel to Yes, Prime Minister 2013-01-12T06:00:00Z I’m cribbing these words — “delight,” “instruct” — from a 2,000-year-old theory about the purpose of art because they seem today more apposite than ever. Riff: ?Why Write Novels at All?? 2012-01-13T22:19:00Z That seems apposite, since the blurry, imperfect, magical act of creation is part of Mr. Jasperse’s subject in “Truth.” Dance Review: John Jasperse Company Performs at the Joyce 2010-06-18T22:13:00Z Last summer, when I was in London, I attended a one-man show in which Simon Callow took us through a tour of Shakespeare’s life, with apposite quotations read resonantly along the way. ArtsBeat Blog: Theater Talkback: Who Wrote Shakespeare? Who Cares? 2011-10-27T15:42:53Z The timing is apposite, though to be honest the phone-hacking scandal is so engrossing it's hard not to see it wherever you look. TV review: The Hour 2011-07-19T21:10:01Z Haunted house and drag are probably the most apposite terms because the music sounds like ghostly apparitions of old dance tunes, only at half-speed. New band of the day - No 877: oOoOO 2010-09-29T16:13:00Z Many of the people at these crowds — the “beautiful ‘boaters,’” as Trump so appositely calls them — are quite prosperous, yet they live in the least-prosperous areas, the exurbs and the small towns of flyover states. Review | Exploring the crowds that gather for Trump — and dream of civil war 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z Overnight, we heard the British national anthem, “God Save the Queen,” updated to reflect the kingdom’s new reality, its apposite monarch tweaked in the title, its pronouns abruptly swung back to the masculine. Queen had ‘immensely detailed knowledge’ of music, says royal composer 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z “Avoiding recommendations because there’s no perfectly apposite data is a cop-out,” he added. Monkeypox Vaccine Plan Prods Cities and States to Adopt New Dosing Regimen 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z This occupies educational space at the expense of such disciplines — the term is apposite — as history and mathematics, with their exacting chronologies and sequential mastery of increasingly complex material. Opinion | How American K-12 education has become a cultural contradiction 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z The words “servitude” and “dominion” are apposite in takings clause jurisprudence. Opinion | Property rights get a day in court 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z The show is absurdly pretentious which, oddly, makes it more apposite as a commentary on Trump. Rage, white supremacy and roses: the art that sums up the Trump era 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Speaking from his own lockdown bunker in the Peak District last month, the singer reluctantly agrees it's turned out to be a rather apposite tune for the times. How Jarvis made an isolation anthem by accident 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z But the word Woodward used seemed apposite – “inappropriate”. PSG's record £198m splurge on Neymar will stand for years as symbol of crisis | Jonathan Wilson 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z At the same time, the pages dealing with the cholera epidemic are vigorous and apposite. The end of coronavirus: what plague literature tells us about our future 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z At times, Spears sounds so distant that Gertrude Stein’s quip, “There’s no there there”, is apposite. Britney Spears: where to start in her back catalogue 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z This intervention of natural forces is grimly apposite. Judy Chicago's extinction rebellion: 'I went face-to-face with a new horror' 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z But in Morales’s case, it is sadly apposite. The Observer view on Evo Morales and Bolivia | Observer editorial 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z Anger might seem like the most apposite response, but what we have mostly seen is a strange passivity. Petitions and jokes will not halt this march into Brexit calamity | John Harris 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z It is an apposite question, the answer to which changed, fundamentally, that day in December. Raheem Sterling Has Had Enough 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z Did he say it all simply because he couldn’t get over how extremely apposite it was? Why didn’t Liam Neeson just stick to the script? | David Mitchell 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z “It would be interesting to know if other cricketers’ names had origins which were apposite,” emails Phil Sawyer. England v India: first Test, day one - live! 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z The reference to the second world war is apposite. Brexit provides the perfect ingredients for a national food crisis 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z This sentiment seems apposite, perhaps especially in San Francisco. At a loss for words? Join the Bureau of Linguistical Reality 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, though, is a more apposite comparison, even if its scale is more contained. Zuckerberg needs a wizard to clean up Facebook’s mess 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z For players of Washington’s favourite parlour game—predicting where Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged collusion between Mr Trump’s campaign team and Russia might end up—this combination of rule-breaking and chaos looks apposite. Was Donald Trump’s campaign too chaotic to pull off a conspiracy? 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z She is a typical recalcitrant teenager, albeit one with a way with words and a knack for the apposite repartee. Greta Gerwig’s charming solo directorial debut 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z The mention of the Trojan War is a journalistic hook that is nevertheless apposite; the chronology of this era of Mediterranean history is not clearly understood and is still being written. A Grecian Artifact Evokes Tales From the ‘Iliad’ and ‘Odyssey’ 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z Rachel seemed to have an apposite reply for each occasion. Twitter joke about Barry Gibb's Glastonbury 'covers' descends into farce 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z The parallel was an apposite one, and the coincidence curious, to say the least. Dybala the Next Messi? ‘He Can Go as High as He Likes’ 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z It is an eerily apposite image from the year the outbreak of the Spanish civil war inaugurated a new age of slaughter. Dali's enigma, Picasso's protest: the most important artworks of the 1930s 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z Typically, different bits of the economy are deflated by whichever inflation series is most apposite. The elephant in the stats 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z They had been watching an appositely shattering production of The Plough and the Stars by Sean O’Casey, the great playwright’s complex commentary on the Easter Rising that begat the Irish republic a century ago. 100 years on, the Irish lay to rest the ghosts of the Easter Rising 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z However, what made that extraordinary is that he could access that wit and apposite comment again and again, year after year, in front of huge audiences on Children in Need and the Eurovision Song Contest. Sir Terry Wogan: Tributes paid to veteran broadcaster - BBC News 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z Organisers say the exhibition will provide "a rare and apposite moment to reflect on what it means to be a female artist working today". In Pictures: Saatchi Gallery's first all-women exhibition - BBC News 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Bring it on might be the apposite phrase. SNP conference 2015: Judging the Scottish government's record - BBC News 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z And people have continued to find it risibly apposite ever since - especially in conjunction with the equally commonplace cognomen, Will. A Point of View: Can your name shape shape your personality? - BBC News 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z In his statement this week, Mr. Modi said that as U.N. celebrates its 70th anniversary it was “an apposite moment for reform discussions to be accelerated.” Indian Leader Modi to Make Splashy Appearance in U.S. 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Even some of the nonnative plants in her garden told apposite stories. What Grew in Frida Kahlo’s Garden? 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z It was short, expressive and apposite, much more so than Time. Why I Founded 'Newsweek' 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z But that historical comparison, though apposite, does too little justice to the momentousness of this year’s choice. Mightily different 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z There's been a lively debate as to whether the term Cold War is really apposite. The big ideas of 2014: Part II 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z "It is apposite that the committee should decide this year to bestow the prize on those who have endeavoured to improve the lot of children," it says. UKIP fallout and peace prize - the papers 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z For Joni Ernst, however, the apposite sign reads, “No one ever injured their eyesight by looking on the bright side.” Joni Ernst’s Iowa campaign makes quick work of the ‘war on women’ Their rage is motivated by a simpler, appositely Biblical storyline – the fury of watching a bloodied David struggle against an apparently ruthless Goliath – stronger, richer, arrogantly powerful, who still attacks sleeping children with F16s. My Jewish Mother, My Palestinian Father and a Family Torn Apart She cites an apposite Turkish proverb: “He who holds the honey is bound to lick his fingers.” Because we’re worth it 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z The depiction of Brussels in the first batch of pictures is apposite. EU Sentinel returns first images 2014-04-16T14:23:05Z God is never far from his writings or conversation: he senses signs from God when a book opens at an apposite page, or in a timely gesture of support from a stranger. Lexington: If Walker runs 2013-11-28T15:58:36Z For fans of the show, a poem that symbolises hubris and egomania seems apposite. Why did Breaking Bad use Ozymandias? 2013-08-01T12:16:43Z Vallely—who was appositely enough driving home from a class in creative writing—told a reporter for the Irish Sunday Times that the mobile phone McGeever was carrying was almost dead. Who Kidnapped the Irish Tycoon? 2013-02-05T09:45:00Z Photograph: Steve Marcus/Reuters The brash promise of Las Vegas - what happens there, stays there - never seems apposite for the Consumer Electronics Show which opens this week in the city of sin. CES 2013: Microsoft notably absent from Las Vegas show 2013-01-06T15:28:01Z Winter hopes the African grey parrot is an apposite logo: "It's smart, and lives the longest of them all." Fastjet takes EasyJet low-cost model into African airspace 2012-11-18T00:04:17Z Your reference to creating "space and structures" is apposite and it is interesting to note that the Games volunteer programme was core-funded by Newham council. The big society: virtue of volunteering must be nurtured by government 2012-08-12T04:00:01Z Commentators and politicians rush to squeeze Olympic results into preferred narratives and to draw apposite moral lessons. London 2012: spare us the jingoistic Olympic hype 2012-08-07T09:04:30Z That pithy line from "Exodus" seems fairly apposite for our times. How Jamaica conquered the world 2012-08-04T23:04:06Z Global Governmental Crisis would be a more apposite title for this ongoing chaos. Yes, banking's a mess, but be part of the solution. Move your money! 2012-07-13T19:30:01Z As I hit the first of the 21 hairpins, it struck me that the race's name, after an Alpine groundhog, could not be more apposite. Your own Tour de France: cycling the Marmotte 'sportive' in France 2012-06-29T21:45:08Z Local people were consulted about the best routes, the most apposite links to each place visited and the most effective way of harnessing community energy. Olympic torch shows how to bring the regions into London's loop 2012-06-21T13:00:00Z Concerning this position of affairs the most apposite remark I can make is contained in the somewhat trite and vulgar saying, "Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise." The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z How wonderfully true and apposite it all was! A Gamble with Life 2012-04-11T02:00:33.587Z It is, by contrast with music, the motive of symphony as compared to the motive of Oratorio or opera, and the apposite methods may be equally well, or badly, used or abused. Women Painters of the World From the Time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the Present Day 2012-03-29T02:00:13.340Z Very applicable; well adapted; suitable or fit; relevant; pat; Ð followed by to; as, this argument is very apposite to the case. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z There is no word in the epistle more apposite than this to “our day Of haste, half-work, and disarray.” The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z Perhaps to-day he would open both eyes widely after reading Creative Involution, by Cora L. Williams, M. S., with an apposite introduction by Edwin Markham. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Here lies his strength; for a single apposite fact outweighs, with the mass of men, a whole volume of abstract reasoning or florid declamation. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z The words were simple enough, not so apposite but that many an one might have uttered them under similar circumstances. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z Consequently, the witness of the Context cannot but be held to be positively or negatively, though perhaps more often negatively than positively, a very apposite Note of Truth. The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels 2012-02-24T03:00:31.020Z The late negotiations at Washington have furnished an apposite illustration of the truth of the author’s remarks. The Oregon Territory Its History and Discovery 2012-02-22T03:00:27.207Z Our author appositely quotes from Puffer's Studies in Symmetry: "A picture composed in substitutional symmetry is more rich in its suggestions of motor impulse, and thus more beautiful, than an example of geometrical symmetry." Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z The description is, however, sufficiently apposite and interesting, as bearing upon what I have noted respecting the eminent fence-loving spirit of the mediævals. Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things 2012-02-20T03:00:15.843Z Then came a vigorous pull at the bell, followed by subdued whistling of the air of this apposite but vulgar ditty. For the Cause 2012-02-19T03:00:18.033Z Besides my own researches, The Last Twelve Verses, and The Revision Revised, of Dean Burgon have been most prolific of apposite passages. The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels 2012-02-24T03:00:31.020Z I always think how very apposite the answer of an official was to the criticism of excessive expenditure: “Sir, there is no reckless expenditure; every J pen has to be accounted for!” West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z Jimmy looked at her, and, finding no very apposite rejoinder, nodded. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z After the fact you mentioned it struck me as rather apposite; but I may have been wrong. A Prairie Courtship 2012-02-01T03:00:12.830Z The sound, chiming appositely to my thoughts, urged me to embrace my plan, and I did embrace it, though reluctantly. The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 2012-01-26T03:00:17.027Z The whole notice is so apposite to my purpose, and would be so interesting to every Manxman, that I would fain insert the whole bodily, did the Author and the limits of an Introduction permit. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z The transposition is complete, and the allusion most apposite. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 100, September 27, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-01-25T03:00:37.190Z Jimmy sat down, and, much as he desired it, could think of nothing apposite to say. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z Now Sewell was not aware how matters stood between her and his comrade, but he might have guessed what she was thinking, for his next remark was curiously apposite. Delilah of the Snows 2012-01-23T03:00:09.087Z There was something too apposite in her chance phrase. The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 2012-01-26T03:00:17.027Z His conversational talents were of the first order, and he occasionally enlivened his remarks with apposite anecdotes. The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) 2012-01-18T03:00:13.193Z The drummer sits cross-legged on the ground, and accompanies the beat of the drum with apposite words. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-03T03:00:07.630Z He flung a swift glance at the man as he realized that his observation was apposite. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z It was not a discourse from any particular text, although it was connected, regular, and nobly illustrated by the most apposite quotations from the Bible. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z The words chimed so appositely with my thoughts that I resolved there and then to put the theory into practice, and closing the book, I made a beginning with Sir Thomas Browne. The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 2012-01-26T03:00:17.027Z Had Mr. Allnutt been present he would have made an apposite reference to the Old Obadiah and the Young Obadiah. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z Yet that it was eminently apposite is evident from the whole course of the subsequent discussions. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z As he read out the text she started, for it seemed strangely apposite. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z A maxim of the illustrious sir William Jones very apposite to the point in dispute, has floated in my memory from early life. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 93, August 9, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2011-12-20T03:00:34.177Z The favourite comparison of the enclosure of Yima with the deluge of the Hebrews appears to me anything but apposite. The History of Antiquity Vol. V. 2011-12-06T03:00:24.110Z James Nimmo could quote whole stanzas of him, and kept a store of apposite tags and passages from his works upon the tip of his tongue. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z The words were apposite, to say the least of it. Amusement Only 2011-12-04T03:00:06.637Z And he entered into it all, adding here and there an apposite suggestion, which thoroughly appealed. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z What is omitted, though it would seem most apposite to be said; 2. St. Peter, His Name and His Office As set forth in holy scripture 2011-11-28T03:00:25.013Z If we must bring together things which have really no relation to each other, it would be more apposite to compare the paradise of the Hebrews. The History of Antiquity Vol. V. 2011-12-06T03:00:24.110Z On each seal was a distinct impression of what probably purported to be Mr Adams's own crest; with, under the circumstances, a sufficiently apposite motto--for once in a way in plain English--"Fear Nothing." Miss Arnott's Marriage 2011-11-11T03:00:33Z Moreover he, in consultation with his librettist, achieved great skill in holding together entire scenes, or even entire acts, by dramatically apposite repetitions of short arias and choruses. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z In any event it was apposite to remark, "Of course Emmie's the pet." The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z Brooke started, for this appeared astonishingly apposite in view of the fact that he had, as she had once or twice reminded him, told her unnecessarily little about his Canadian affairs. A Damaged Reputation 2011-10-17T02:00:16.117Z Speed and originality are the two prime requisites of the successful newspaper cartoon of to-day, a maximum of thought expressed in a minimum of lines, apposite, clear-cut, and incisive, like a well-written editorial. The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature 2011-10-04T02:00:18.533Z Even when reasoning out the bearings of a supposition does not lead to rejection, it develops the idea into a form in which it is more apposite to the problem. How We Think 2011-09-16T02:00:18.973Z May I quote again, here, as so apposite to what I have written, to what indirectly I am trying to convey of the spiritual history of Iona, some portion of it? The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z Still I don't see that it applies very appositely to your state. The Tigress 2011-08-30T02:00:39.657Z None of Mr. Roscoe's sage remarks, all so apposite and coming in so clever, lest the reader should have had the trouble of drawing an inference.' Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z A real case came under my observation some years ago, and which is equally apposite to the subject. Observations on Madness and Melancholy Including Practical Remarks on those Diseases together with Cases and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection 2011-08-23T02:00:29.227Z I may adduce some circumstances from most ancient history and tradition which have not been applied to this question hitherto, but should have been, for they seem to be apposite and remarkable. The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer 2011-08-21T02:00:29.747Z A real case came under my observation a few months ago, and which is equally apposite to the subject. Observations on Insanity With Practical Remarks on the Disease and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection 2011-08-14T02:00:24.997Z At least it has a gallant ending, which was not altogether apposite to the situation of Marsh and his fellow-prisoners at Kingston. Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier 2011-08-06T02:00:04.917Z Then something in the fancy struck her as especially apposite, and she turned to Carrie, who stood rigid, as though turned to stone. By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z But as all the known members of the class, except the pearly nautilus, Nautilus pompilius, have these habits in common, the distinguishing terms are hardly apposite. Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained 2011-07-11T02:00:07.857Z He seems rather gratified than otherwise by so apposite an illustration of his ill-luck. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93., October 1, 1887 2011-06-29T02:00:26.507Z A French wardrobe sets off those natural advantages, with its happy disguises and apposite revelations. Modern Society 2011-06-23T02:00:27.897Z On this point, Mr. Larocque has given copious and apposite arguments and citations. Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York 2011-06-05T02:00:10.927Z As often happened when he felt the most, he could think of nothing apposite to say, and stood looking at her in silence. By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z The Skipper's apposite remarks aided me in keeping my senses. Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty 2011-05-30T02:00:18.047Z An archpragmatist, prepared to win by any means, is a more apposite definition. For Mourinho and Madrid, Winning Ugly Is Still Winning 2011-04-21T02:20:07Z The example most apposite to our present subject is the structure of the bones of animals. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z Read that law just as it is, and say, after the words "Prince" and "State" have been used, what other term is necessary or apposite. Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York 2011-06-05T02:00:10.927Z It is not within the scope of these essays to make large quotations, but page after page of Gray's letters illustrate this felicitous and apposite handling. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z This tenure of the Rat’s rôle, that was no less dangerous, was apposite. Doors of the Night 2011-04-12T02:00:23.287Z Their institutions had moulded them; a conclusion not more apparent from our colonial and revolutionary history, than apposite for estimating at least the immediate results of revolutions effected under moral circumstances less propitious. The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) 2011-04-02T02:00:12.460Z The accidental hint of water in the H3O name is apposite too, as the majority of our flowers today are imported by air freight from water-scarce countries in Africa. Kenya's flower industry shows budding improvement 2011-04-01T13:20:26Z In every view in which the subject can be considered, such a System, strengthened by good and apposite Laws, could not fail to be productive of vast benefits to the Community. A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention 2011-03-23T02:00:17.353Z An apposite time, then, for this industry's most controversial anti-filesharing cabal to be back in the news. Anti-piracy firms 'delete data' in filesharing row 2011-03-22T18:31:26Z She gave a light laugh that had in it so little mirth, was so little apposite to ridicule, that he did not feel it a fleer. The Storm Centre 2011-03-01T03:00:39.427Z He ransacked the Bible for apposite and terrible texts whose commands in the olden times, to the olden people, were no less imperative upon the new times and the new people. The Negro in the South His Economic Progress in Relation to his Moral and Religious Development 2011-02-27T03:00:29.010Z Only that evening had he begged his congregation to love their enemies, and return good for evil, and Harriet Wesden had thought how irresistible his words were, and how apposite his illustrations. Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 3 of 3) 2011-02-16T03:00:37.273Z After all, the Fitzwarens were the Fitzwarens, and our revered Vicar—the hardest riding parson in five counties—clinched the matter with the most apposite quotation from Holy Writ in which he has ever indulged. Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z The ethical principle is strongly enforced in the Third Reader by apposite fables and fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen and others. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z Besides, she had an apposite observation to make. Here and Hereafter 2011-02-07T03:00:23.580Z He laid the paper down and wondered; the two statements capped his flying ideas so appositely. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z Its comments on Scripture seem to have been clear, natural, methodical, apposite, and logically exact. An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine 2011-01-31T03:00:14.710Z The comparison with Jonathan Ross at the BBC is an apposite one, for all that the charges levelled at Gray and Keys are completely different. Managing director can seize opportunity to overhaul Sky Sports team 2011-01-26T00:48:00Z The worse the better – a ludicrous-sounding statement that very occasionally is entirely apposite, such as now, and when David Beckham goes to the hairdresser. The sound of telescopic lenses, and King Kenny shouting made-up words 2011-01-14T16:11:16Z Still more apposite is what Professor Huxley has to say. Education: How Old The New 2011-01-14T03:00:54.370Z The analogy is apposite only if we include one fact – the customer told the salesman he planned to bludgeon someone to death with it outside the store. London firm supplied drugs for US executions 2011-01-06T17:45:00Z The analogy is apposite only if we include one fact: the customer told the salesman he planned to bludgeon someone to death with it outside the store. London firm supplied drugs for US executions 2011-01-06T15:44:00Z The analogy is apposite only if we include one fact – the customer told the salesman that he planned to bludgeon someone to death with it outside the store. London firm supplied drugs used for US lethal injections 2011-01-06T13:25:01Z He contributed some excellently apposite remarks to the long-standing controversy respecting the merits of the author of Tom Jones in comparison with those of the author of Clarissa. The Wayfarers 2010-12-30T03:00:22.387Z Twelve years on it still seems grimly apposite. William Fotheringham's top 10 cycling novels 2010-10-14T13:30:00Z So it is remarkably apposite timing on the part of the award committee to name economists whose speciality is in precisely these areas, especially the labour market. Peter Diamond's Nobel prize in economics is all about hard work 2010-10-11T18:21:00Z He was quite capable of meaningful, apposite phrases about the game, even though distant sports editors did not encourage them enough. Eric Hill obituary 2010-08-18T17:01:00Z But it is especially pleasing when it actually seems an apposite thing to do. The Spin 2010-08-10T11:28:00Z Elaborating first on the latter of these propositions – appositely, as we remember the Dunkirk evacuation 70 years ago – it's clear that there is a huge public appetite for history. History tells us we need a strong EU 2010-05-28T13:00:00Z So this tweet from Paul Mason, Newsnight's economics editor, is quite funny and/or apposite ... isn't it? General election 2010 - live blog 2010-05-09T08:01:00Z But, in a peculiar and strangely apposite twist, I believe history will force us to admire his balls. Barney Ronay: Is John Terry Chelsea's secret hero? 2010-04-16T23:20:00Z In his appositely titled book “The Forgotten Olympic Art Competitions,” Richard Stanton relates the details of this obscure byway of cultural history in enthusiastic prose. When There Were Arts Olympians 2010-02-20T21:02:00Z I fear that the reader will not consider the comparison very apposite, unless the allusion be to a beautiful red berry which, I am informed, is borne by the flower here mentioned. The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments The supposed opposition between science and religion is precisely an apposite type of one of the things "that ain't so." Catholic Churchmen in Science I allow this, and therefore I will call simple assent material certitude; or, to use a still more apposite term for it, interpretative certitude. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent But the words were too apposite to the event, and the sentiment too much in accordance with Mrs. Sturt's chivalric views to allow of her admitting the truth of any such assurance as this. Rachel Ray The phrase is apposite, since it is as absurd as the relations of which it is intended to be a description. The Acquisitive Society These verses are translated from the Calcutta edition of the first two hundred nights, as more apposite than those which are inserted in their place in the edition of Cairo. The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments The books they talk about fondly at table and quote from freely and appositely are likely to arrest the attention of the child. The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses Then, satisfied as to its apposite character, they would look up again as eagerly as before. Russian Life To-day The church clock struck the half-hour as appositely as if his own father had said something about the need for hurrying up and showing what he could do. Plashers Mead A Novel Mrs. Lyeth indeed discoursed amiably enough on the subject of nothing at all, and now and then Liance interjected an apposite sally; but Tancred was taciturn. A Transient Guest and Other Episodes The application of this very apposite fact to Ireland was clearly satisfactory to my mother, who smiled benignly at the speaker, while my father turned upon him a look of the most indescribable import. Jack Hinton The Guardsman Of this character is a small group known in New Zealand, the natural habitat of a large number of shrubby species, by the apposite name of Whipcord Veronicas. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens Eric had prepared himself, and read apposite passages from Cicero, and from Xenophon's Memorabilia. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine To appreciate the elements from which the immortal types of Greek Epic were composed, a comparison with the Book of Judges is apposite. Greek Women Of the several modes of counting time, that by the sun-dial is perhaps the most apposite and striking, if not the most convenient or comprehensive. A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time His turn was for the lighter portions of criticism and biography, and most of his apposite remarks are critical opinions. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition Struck by a view so apposite to his condition, and so entirely tallying with his own wishes, the impetuous old Governor fairly leaped from his chair and grasped the hand of his young adviser. Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion "May Serapion continue to protect and aid us," cried Theodore, rising and elevating his glass, "and enable us to describe what we have seen with the eye of the spirit, in graphic and apposite words." The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. Allowing some license for the mountaineer’s irreverence, his whimsical fancies, and his scorn of sentimentalism, it must be said that his descriptive terms are usually apposite and sometimes felicitous. Our Southern Highlanders Whatever in the way of architecture and landscape gardening had struck the Count during his travels--particularly in England--as specially delightful and apposite, he was going to reproduce in his own demesne. The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II After passing the mouth of the Golden Horn, the Moltke slackened speed and anchored in the Bosporus apposite Galata, a little way from the shore. A Trip to the Orient The Story of a Mediterranean Cruise The melancholy of the Hawaiian and the emptiness of his new life are striking; and the remark is yet more apposite to the Marquesas. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) The same writer caps this fact by one of his usually apposite quotations. Old and New London Volume I He ransacked the Bible for apposite and terrible texts, whose commands in the olden times, to the olden people, were no less imperative upon the new times and the new people. Right on the Scaffold, or The Martyrs of 1822 The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 7 But the petition “Forgive us our trespasses,” falling in so apposite after they had themselves forgiven the immediate author of their miseries, sounded like an absolution. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) His style is simple and condensed; his illustrations are singularly apposite; and his grouping of topics is picturesque and forcible. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. That book was The New Republic, with regard to which in this place a few words may be apposite. Memoirs of Life and Literature I will close this note with an extract from “Pappe with a Hatchet,” which illustrates the ill effects of all sudden reforms, by an apposite and original image. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors “You remind me appositely; I will take the poker.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) How proper and how apposite a sign would this be for Providence to pitch upon, to confirm the promise made to Noah and his posterity, that the world should be no more destroyed by water! The Rain Cloud or, An Account of the Nature, Properties, Dangers and Uses of Rain in Various Parts of the World Since that, I have obtained, progressively improving, several landscapes, which may be called, most appositely, ‘lucigraphs.’ Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign The lecture is short, sharp, apposite, a model of all a lecture should be, stripped to the bare bones of fundamental truth, pared clean of every redundant word. An Ocean Tramp How the moral and literary character are reciprocally influenced, may be traced in the character of a personage peculiarly apposite to these inquiries. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Strange as it may seem, however, he could find no apposite remark; and as the lady, on her side, vouchsafed 75 no further sign, they continued to drive in silence through the streets. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) At the sound, appositely occurring, of a cough in the neighboring room, Aurora stopped and listened. Aurora the Magnificent He was habitually silent, but when he did speak, he was very apt to say something apposite, and generally containing the pith of the matter under discussion. Records of Later Life Steevens, who had some glimpse of the meaning of this word, refers to an apposite passage in The Two Noble Kinsmen. Notes and Queries, Number 216, December 17, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc I met the other day, in an old Dutch chronicle, with a passage so apposite to this subject, that, though it is somewhat too light for the occasion, I cannot abstain from quoting it. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Natural Selection, as Dr. Schmidt appositely remarks, accounts for adaptation as a result without requiring the supposition of design as a cause. Arrows of Freethought It is a delightful club, built with the usual Western instinct for apposite design, and, as with most clubs on the American Continent, it is a revelation of comfort. Westward with the Prince of Wales Either the charm of the surprise, or the originality of the individual who thus appositely introduced this popular fragment from the masterpiece of a favourite composer, produced an electrifying effect upon the young noblemen. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 The New Brunswick frontier, as well as Canada, was disturbed by the threatened Fenian invasion, so that the question of defence was apposite and of vital importance. The Fathers of Confederation A Chronicle of the Birth of the Dominion But I have before alluded to the violent license he occasionally assumes; and there is an instance of it in this picture apposite to the immediate question. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) If not, let his separate features be as beautiful, as apposite, or as resemblant as they may, they form no whole. Modern Painters Volume II (of V) It is so apposite to the present situation of affairs, that we cannot forbear from quoting it. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 Wright, English Dialect Dictionary, gives apposite quotations for ‘mainly’ from Gloucester, 524 Wilts and Devon. The Works of Aphra Behn Volume V It was the longest speech he had yet made in Castilian; but he had no notion, of course, how exquisitely apposite to the situation they were. The Spanish Jade Boileau's Discourse is a particularly apposite reply to the latter, which had contrasted Pope's satiric practice with that of Horace, Juvenal, and Boileau. An Essay on Satire, Particularly on the Dunciad The most elevated power of mind of all these, is that of association, by which images apposite or resemblant, or of whatever kind wanted, are called up quickly and in multitudes. Modern Painters Volume II (of V) This new and well-built part contains the far-seen and notable Town Hall, the architecture of which would have pleased Ruskin, especially as its fine windows are all appositely illustrative of Shetlandic annals. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland Mrs. Marsh repeated after her neighbor,— "Exquisitely apposite!" A Romantic Young Lady I have heard a point most crudely stated, followed by an apposite illustrative anecdote, by a plantation orator silence the more profuse cultured and eloquent opponent. Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century Not long after, at Vienna, he manifested the same endowments, and others even more rare and apposite, when representing the House of Bourbon and the European interests of France. Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 We shall conclude our remarks upon Sir Walter, by a poetical tribute to his memory, which is both apposite and eloquent. The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 And if they were really apposite, they would only show that the mind may be caused to act like a cannonball, a whirlwind, a clock, or any other piece of machinery. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory This was the most apposite word that occurred to him, for he did not consider it advisable to mention the photograph. Hawtrey's Deputy He recalled now, appositely, what Bartamon had told him but a few days before ... Hollidew would consent to make no will; there were no other children. Mountain Blood A Novel The remark was not very apposite, but sounded damaging. The Hero The warning which immediately follows against the false prophets, the teachers of the dark Mysteries, is most apposite in this connection. Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries Thus spake the learned friar very appositely; and the same is the judgment of our own divines. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) After all ’tis a characteristic of much wit that it is apposite to the occasion only and loses point in the retelling. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 His own sensible performance was an apposite illustration of the excellent lesson which Shakspeare has in this scene bequeathed to the profession.” The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3 There was a pause, while Major Forsyth racked his brain for some apposite remark; but the conversation had run out of his depth. The Hero At Rugby, Stafford, and elsewhere, the train stopped, and little groups of people looked in at the convict, and made apposite comments on his appearance, crime, and condition. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time He spends much of his time in company thinking up apposite quotations and verifying them. Chimney-Pot Papers He could not think of any apposite answer, but she saw the sympathy in his eyes and it pleased her more than words would have done. The Long Portage No one can paint more picturesquely by an apposite epithet, or illustrate more happily by a choice allusion. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete Dunne's face, red from exertion, deepened in colour; for some of his remarks, though exceedingly apposite, had not been intended for feminine ears. Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters "Those whom the gods mean to destroy they first make mad," says an apposite Grecian proverb. Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) The Romance of Reality The time, too, was apposite, for Japan had not yet entered upon the path of modernization which she has since pursued with such revolutionary progress. From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life The more apposite question is—when will the recognition of this inevitable truth be spread among European governments and peoples? The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics Thus he prepares the mind to hear of the catastrophe of Tlepolemus by an exclamation perfectly apposite, and appropriated to the occasion. An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients But, my dear Reding," said Carlton, "let me bring you back to what you said originally, and to my answer to you, which what you now say only makes more apposite. Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert And in like manner, while the most simple subjects are apposite in a University pulpit, they certainly would there require a treatment more exact than is necessary in merely popular exhortations. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin The illustrations, diagrams, and explanations are skilfully introduced, and happily apposite—numerous and beautifully executed. The Royal Picture Alphabet "One Ben Ashurst, who said few good things, though admired for many, told Lord Chesterfield once that he was like a stunted giant, which was a humorous idea and really apposite." A History of the Four Georges, Volume II Maude felt that the illustration was true, but she was not sure that it was apposite, neither was she convinced that her own view was mistaken. The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time Or, what is more apposite still, many men, or most men, are a compound of precious and worthless together, and their worthless swims, and their precious lies at the bottom. Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert The reference was so apposite that we burst into laughter, but there was nothing funny about the devastation that had been wrought. Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska Little by little her thoughts of him were obscured by other thoughts, by weakly apposite conjectures that had different men as their objects. Sacrifice There is no particular merit about the greater part of them, but they depict incidents described in the text, so at least they are apposite. The Book-Hunter at Home And that words are not immediately apposite expressions of the emotions which they represent, has been generally recognized. Human Traits and their Social Significance I cannot tell you how very apposite to my work these two feathers are. Hortus Inclusus Messages from the Wood to the Garden, Sent in Happy Days to the Sister Ladies of the Thwaite, Coniston Saracenic Mahometanism, on the contrary, gives me an apposite illustration of what I mean by an "interior" people, if I may borrow a devotional word to express a philosophical idea. Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity In the second the satiric tendency of the Fabliaux and Renart is carried still further, with an admixture of not often apposite learning to a much greater extent. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) These remarks, as will appear in the sequel, are apposite to the parties which I am about to introduce to the reader. Newton Forster The Merchant Service “Well, the heralds told me they were just what I ought to have chosen, and very apposite, as they termed it.” Jacob Faithful The mottoes are sometimes specially apposite to the chapters to which they are prefixed; but more frequently to the general scope, or, to borrow a musical term, the motivo of the operetta. Gryll Grange It is extraordinary that a man can make so many picturesque, striking, and apparently apposite remarks, and yet leave us so frequently in doubt as to his meaning. The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse It was the most astonishing and apposite piece of luck that had ever happened to him. Clayhanger It didn't seem a very funny or apposite ditty to Miles Morgan, but, to judge by its effect upon those within, it was exquisitely witty. The Madigans The "Prince of the power of the air," he very appositely called the "Little Bad Man." Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 "Are you my equal in intelligence and education?" she asked appositely, laughter in her eyes. The Mermaid A Love Tale Where did you find those very apposite lines? Evenings at Donaldson Manor Or, The Christmas Guest The feud was sometimes carried on appositely enough on the side of the naturalistic painters by poison and dagger. The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art It was a song marvellously apposite to the bright day and the wide countryside. The Lady Paramount The whole notice is so apposite to my purpose, and would be so interesting to every Manxman, that I would fain insert the whole bodily, did the Author and the limits of an Introduction permit. George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends The scene had been observed by passengers trooping to378 the Customs, and a group of English and American tourists were making apposite comments on the event. The Eternal City He felt interest in many questions outside the range of his art, and, being a good and varied talker, had often something apposite and suggestive to say about them. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" The words which he has taken from me are so apposite as to be almost prophetical. Apologia pro Vita Sua With quips and jokes, apposite and sparkling, he "is wont to set the table in a roar." Western Worthies A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities He loved me and I worshipped him, though our apposite tempers frequently brought us in conflict. Bohemian Days Three American Tales I have read your work, The Gospel of Wealth,34 and noted therein truly apposite and sound recommendations for easing the lot of humankind. Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá His rhetoric was ample, but not rich; his illustrations apposite, but seldom to the point of wit; his delivery weighty and imposing. Eulogy on Chief-Justice Chase Delivered by William M. Evarts before the Alumni of Dartmouth College, at Hanover So apposite are the verses which are quoted here from "The Wisdom of Solomon" in the "Apocrypha" that they seem almost to have been written on Louis Raemaekers. Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers One is the theory of chronological progressive development; the other is the theory of the 11 Strauss gives a multitude of apposite quotations in his Christliche Glaubenslehre, band i. s. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Or was it merely by chance that his words were so strikingly apposite? The Four Feathers The most reasonable anticipations fail us, antecedents the most apposite mislead us, because the conditions of human problems never repeat themselves. Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists The remarks on agriculture and on capital were equally apposite; and Captain Cameron remarked that these were the 'truest words of wisdom about Africa that it ever was his lot to hear.' To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative The following is what a person one day said to such a one very appositely: "If you continue to talk in this manner, you will really make me religious." Pascal's Pensées Or, to cite a more apposite case, as well might we seek a reliable historical narrative in the following Greek myth. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life One of the secrets of his success, it is said, was his command of colloquial simile, apposite stories, and ready wit. Successful Methods of Public Speaking I do not deem many of the passages which he cites entirely apposite, and yet some of the points urged are important. Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form One Ben Ashurst, who said a few good things, though admired for many, told Lord Chesterfield once, that he was like a stunted giant—which was a humorous idea and really apposite.' The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 "I never believe in the man who told you things, he is far too apposite; I think his name is Harris." Great Possessions It would be easy to present whole volumes of apposite citations. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life This is plainly stated in two other Irish manuscripts, with an additional explanation which is very apposite. Fians, Fairies and Picts Caine's likening them to "international exhibitions a week before their opening" will strike many visitors as very apposite. The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin Each illumination has a border, and its apposite characteristic subject attached to the month. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three All this is surely part of an author's lifework; so I am writing appositely. My Life as an Author Except as the medium of a compliment to virtue, the word "freedom" is not very apposite, seeing that, to the highest goodness, there attaches submission or restraint, rather than liberty. Practical Essays Nothing could show us more appositely than this what criticism should not be. How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art That was probably by gesture, which, in the apposite phrase of Professor Sayce, "like the rope-bridges of the Himalayas or the Andes, formed the first rude means of communication between man and man." Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 Is not sympathy with what is modern, instant, actual, and apposite a fair parallel of patriotism? French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Or, to take a more apposite illustration, every hostess knows that the success of her dinner depends upon how she seats her guests around the table. Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries Moreover, the author remarks appositely that by prejudicing the happiness of others needlessly one offends the divine will, which desires that all be happy as far as it is possible. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil I wish, therefore, but for an apposite occasion to express to Mr. Adams my unchanged affections for him. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 He was not fluent in speech, but what he said was apposite, and listened to with the more interest as being known to come from the heart. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader The only other rule in the game is that the occasion for making each remark must be reasonably apposite. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 4th, 1920 And out of many illustrations which I might take I will content myself here tonight with two, widely removed in point of time, but both, as it happens, very apposite to the present case. New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why? Aristotle, although he also scarcely knew that source, nevertheless said something of the same kind which was very apposite. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil On the other hand, an apposite anecdote has saved many a speech from failure. The Art of Public Speaking Introduction of pleasant Pictures and Visions, which present not a new Illustration, and Light, to the original Subjects, being rather wild Sallies of Vivacity, than well-aimed, apposite Strokes of Wit. An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) Dr. Lieber's remarks on this point are peculiarly just and apposite. Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition; With Critical Notes On The Mexican And Crimean Wars. And Aunt Charlotte was a very apposite specimen of the class. Austin and His Friends The author answers appositely that the abundance of the goodness of God is the cause. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil He was a powerful speaker, fluent as a fountain, and extremely vigorous in his expressions: his imagery was original and beautiful, apposite and illustrative; and his words and manner passionate to wildness. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest It followed that he was much taken with a preacher who could answer so appositely to the needs of his soul as did this impressive young man in a chance sermon of unstudied eloquence. The Seeker Raptly scrutinizing his meagre form he chanted a line of verse that seemed apposite: "Build thou more stately mansions, O my soul!" Bunker Bean I thought the experiment more apposite to my purpose by suspending the bladder with its neck downwards, as the lymphatics are chiefly spread upon this part of it, as shewn by Dr. Watson, Philos. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life With this canon so ably laid down, and these remarks so apposite, MR. Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851 In debate he was brilliant and convincing; in argument, cogent and lucid; in declamation, fervid and impassioned, abounding in metaphor, and often elucidating a position with an apposite anecdote, both pointed and amusing. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest Of some of them he repeated apposite slices; to others he referred for further enlightenment as to his views on imperial federation. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 1915 April-September, 1915 "Oh, The Ledger ain't any worse than the rest of 'em, take it day in and day out," the manager remarked, busily penciling apposite texts for advertising, on the margin of Gurney's critique. Success A Novel It is a common and no less apposite remark that truth is stranger than fiction, and the longer we live, the more are we convinced of the force of the above axiom. Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy; between 1793 and 1849 The repetition of this apposite text stopped the judge from any farther comments on the custom, and he ordered him and his companions to be taken away again. A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 1 The root is fusiform, the stem cylindrical, and furnished with sessile, three to five longitudinally-nerved leaves, which are apposite on the lower portion of the stem, and alternate on the upper. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. Thackeray, in his novel of "The Virginians," has some very apposite remarks upon the limited state of illumination in which our ancestors were content to dwell. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character The terms which we usually apply to the cultivation of land are apposite. Recent Developments in European Thought VALE, which is very apposite to the present occasion. The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. A comparison of baseball and tennis ethics came into his mind as apposite, and quite tickled him by its aptness. The Brimming Cup Then follows a masterly sketch of the condition of woman in uncivilized life, in which the subject is illustrated by the most apposite quotations from the works of different travellers and historians. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 This speech appeared to her apposite and called for, and she departed in high spirits, which were illuminated by the thought that the administration was not wholly to be trusted. Unleavened Bread But the case of Hungary is still more apposite as an illustration of the English policy in Ireland. The Land-War In Ireland (1870) A History For The Times Madame Piriac brought the episode to a close with a sympathetic smile and an apposite gesture. The Lion's Share Sir,—Your remarks upon "the wide and ambiguous suggestions" contained in the Pope's Peace Note are especially apposite to his desire for "the freedom of the seas." Letters to "The Times" upon War and Neutrality (1881-1920) She had been about to say something delicately apposite, and now Seaforth, whose company she could have dispensed with, stood on the bank above them, apparently quietly amused. Alton of Somasco Pa. I was naturally greedy to know new Things, to see various Countries and Cities, to learn Languages, and the Customs and Manners of Men, and Merchandize seem'd the most apposite to that Purpose. Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. As the speech went on, the speaker, though often impressing his points with apposite and laughter-provoking stories, grew more and more earnest. The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him For the same answer appositely and satisfactorily is applicable to both. The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London It is radiant," says the critic, "in almost every page with passion, fancy, or thought, set in the most apposite and exquisite language. International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 8, August 19, 1850 The old man was dressed in very curiously-patched jean, but he was almost stately in his simplicity, and nothing could have been more apposite than the little nod with which Alton made his affirmation. Alton of Somasco In the monthly reviews we find the same odd mixture of articles apposite to present problems, and articles utterly out of date. The History of the Fabian Society None of Mr. Roscoe's sage remarks, all so apposite and coming in so clever, lest the reader should have had the trouble of drawing an inference. Notes and Queries, Number 53, November 2, 1850 Lauder then equally convicted Milton of trespassing on the thoughts of others, by somewhat apposite quotations from the classics. Notes and Queries, Number 45, September 7, 1850 On the whole, he has a sufficiently facile and apposite gift at jesting out philosophy, and moralizing the scenes where he moves; and whatever he has in that line is perfectly original with him. Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Antonyms: denunciation, decrial, hooting, derision. apple, n. costard, codling. apple of the eye. pupil. apple-shaped, a. pomiform. apple worm. codling moth. appliance, n. device, apparatus, facility. applicable, a. relevant, pertinent, apposite, germane, appropriate, befitting. Putnam's Word Book These remarks, as will appear in the sequel, are apposite to the parties whom I am about to introduce to the readers. Newton Forster Dr. Johnson, in his Dictionary, cites this very apposite passage from Shakespeare: "Knock at the study where they say he keeps." A Collection of College Words and Customs What Mr. Richard Holt Hutton says in his essay on the poetry of Arnold is so apposite here that it will be best to quote the passage. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 It seemed an apposite probability and this was the only thing about her that Gabriele cared to contemplate. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America Antonym: unapproachable. appropriate, a. fitting, proper, applicable, apposite, pertinent, fit. Putnam's Word Book Some men with an instinct for the apposite started to sing: "Shall we gather at the river?" The Roll-Call The name was so apposite to his thoughts that he could not believe it had been uttered. Witness for the Defense As one event that occurred offers an apposite parallel to what I have now to advance, I shall make a tender of the facts in the way of illustration. The Water-Witch or, the Skimmer of the Seas Here, within, was a tame volcanic oozing, frothy as waves, reshaping her clay landscape apposite to her liking. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America Antonyms: impertinence, irrelevance. pertinent, a. relevant, apposite, applicable, proper. Putnam's Word Book Nature, that furnishes samples of all qualities, and on the scale of gradation exhibits all possible shades, affords us types that are more apposite than words. Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II It is easy to find an apposite illustration of what is meant by saying that this talk of the influence of speculation is enormously exaggerated and misleading. Studies in Literature Had Alderman Van Beverout been a party in the preceding dialogue, he could not have uttered words more apposite, than the exclamation with which he first saluted the ears of those in the pavilion. The Water-Witch or, the Skimmer of the Seas This idea of representing the interior and spiritual man by a material temple is so apposite in all its parts as to have occurred on more than one occasion to the first teachers of Christianity. The Symbolism of Freemasonry In all without exception, the one thing is prominent, and although ordinary topics are not overlooked, they are invariably turned to good account, and made the basis of apposite and profitable reflection. Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York This apposite though untrue anecdote obviously impressed the lady, but she decided that Philip was too precious to be made the subject of experiment. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 18, 1917 The atmospheric relations of color are more apposite to our purpose. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860 Having terminated his address in so apposite and public-spirited a manner, the worthy burgher hemmed loudly, and resumed his accustomed silence, perfectly assured of his own applause. The Water-Witch or, the Skimmer of the Seas Brent Tor is a church, in which is appositely inscribed from Scripture, "Upon this rock will I build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 562, Saturday, August 18, 1832. The allusion however so appositely and wisely put, like an arrow directed to the mark, had fastened upon his conscience, and was secretly undermining the strength of long and obstinately-cherished resentment. Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York She had a great command of vigorous Scotch, and a large stock of homely proverbs, of which she made frequent and apposite use. Principal Cairns Flora, however, received the remark as if it had been of a most apposite and agreeable nature; approvingly observing aloud that Mr F.'s Aunt had a great deal of spirit. Little Dorrit Then, as if he had well considered the sentiment, and regarded it as apposite to birthdays, he cried, 'Never say die!' a great many times, and flapped his wings for emphasis. Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty On these occasions, the Cadhi respectfully places on his head the holy volume, and substitutes a dexterous interpretation more apposite to the principles of equity, and the manners and policy of the times. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 The historian has inserted, and the reader may easily supply, the speeches of the commanders, who, by arguments the most apposite to their situation, inculcated the importance of victory, and the contempt of life. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 With this apposite illustration, of which he seemed a little Proud, Mr Toots gave Captain Cuttle his blessing and departed. Dombey and Son They included every phase of every question that then seemed to be apposite to the great inquiry he was making. Democracy in America — Volume 1 Another very odd phrase came into repute in a brief space afterwards, in the form of the impertinent and not universally apposite query, "Has your mother sold her mangle?" Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 There was no replying to this very apposite conclusion, and, therefore, Mr. Pickwick, after settling the reckoning, resumed his walk to Gray's Inn. The Pickwick Papers The objection so strenuously pleaded by Dickens in his letters to the 'Times' - viz. the brutalising effects upon the degraded crowds which witnessed public executions - is no longer apposite. Tracks of a Rolling Stone Family trees not seldom have a crooked branch; or, to use a more apposite figure, many a flock has its black sheep. The House Behind the Cedars Talk should proceed by instances; by the apposite, not the expository. Memories and Portraits He rehearsed to himself a number of apposite speeches. Of Human Bondage Even Balder made remarks which seemed to be regarded as apposite. The Market-Place But the final words of the Don contain a moral apposite to so many other important situations, that they must not be omitted here. Tracks of a Rolling Stone It had never yet, as between him and Newman, been so apposite to place on record the fact that he had not forgiven his daughter. The American This, from him, so unexpectedly apposite, had the effect upon her of a Providential interposition. Tess of the d'Urbervilles To borrow an apposite expression from M. Texte, it is an organism whose evolution has accomplished its course. De Libris: Prose and Verse Our Freeland friends have very appositely and strikingly shown us how the men of the two former epochs of civilisation treated each other, first as beasts for slaughter and then as beasts of burden. Freeland A Social Anticipation The presence of Mrs. Cleveland did not tend to assist Mrs. Felix in that self-control which, with all her wildness, she could appositely practise. Vivian Grey More apposite is a passage quoted from Clearchus, a pupil of Aristotle, about a discussion which his master had with a Jew of Soli, "who was Greek not only in language but in thought." Josephus It had never occurred to me, though we had many times discussed reading and prize-competitions as a diversion, that Mr. Shaynor ever read Keats, or could quote him at all appositely. Traffics and Discoveries No malicious destiny could have timed the hour of his call more appositely; the consul was at home and at the disposal of his fellow-citizens—within bounds. The Black Bag "You make use of specious language to abuse people; but I've thought of a fine and most apposite name for you!" Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books This may appositely be termed a fantastic sentimental destiny, which, by a strange coincidence, befell a couple consisting of an ill-fated young fellow and girl! Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books It struck me also with some wonder, that the Judges should think so much fervour apposite to the occasion of reproving the defendant for a little excess. Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 They were so apposite and so creditable, that very likely the bishop yielded. Saint Augustin Well, Aeschines, these same verses will now exactly serve my turn against you, and if I quote them to the jury, the quotation will be true and apposite. The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 1 The proverb appositely says that: 'when there's no trouble, one should make provision for the time of trouble.' Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books "It should be 'fairy land,'" suggested all of them, "so as to be apposite!" Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books There are many other diseases peculiar to civilisation, and concerning the wherefore and the why an apposite passage occurs in the works of Sir William Gull. Birth Control A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians The image indeed is apposite, and the history of mankind renders the application familiar. An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition It may be apposite here to point out that it was later and in the finest period of Latin literature that they ceased to exist. Initiation into Literature Trust me for an apposite quotation … and new, what? Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution The poet says appositely:— Pages full of silly litter, Tears a handful sour and bitter; All a fool the author hold, But their zest who can unfold? Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Few women have the literary sense of apposite quotation--but no matter. The Mountebank Our nation is given to walk in the path of precedent; and in this juncture the authorities had to their hand the most apposite of precedents. The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 Both are springing, but springing in apposite directions, from the one seed. Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts Moore declined offers of assistance; and, pending a legal decision on the matter, he had found it apposite to revisit the Continent. The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes It is related that the superficial and occasional character of Niccolini's conversion was discovered by this test, and that he underwent the apposite penalty. Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions Hertz's style is delicate to the verge of sweetness; his choice of words is fantastically exquisite, yet so apposite as to give an impression of the inevitable. Henrik Ibsen Nestor mentions an "applicable" and apposite instance of similar want of courage, and, as his character demands, he is the hero of his own story. Homer and His Age To this she answers, not very plainly in either reading, but more appositely to that which I propose: I had rather give my body, than my soul. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies I will relate one such case, observed by myself, and which strikes me as being apposite to the question I am considering. The Naturalist in La Plata In its presence it is almost impossible to fit a scene with the apposite phrase; and yet one must own that it has its rights. Roman Holidays, and Others Something apposite—something about the connection between military costumes and vanity. Alone Christ answers their 'hearest thou?' with a 'did ye never read?' and shuts their mouths with words so apposite in their plainest meaning that even they are silenced. Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII The women were affected to tears by their susceptible nature, the surroundings of the cemetery with its graves, the evening dusk, and the touching voice with its apposite lines. The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form The comparison with ancient tragedy is the more apposite here, as we know that both Aeschylus and Sophocles produced a Niobe, and that Sophocles was also the author of a Laocoön. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature I say that now these apposite reflections occur to me with a sufficient ease, but that upon the true occasion for them they were absent. Suburban Sketches I added a few apposite remarks, to which he responded as best he could. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, Jan. 15, 1919 His song also contained a few apposite allusions to the smiling blushing candidates. The Headsman The Abbaye des Vignerons Cambi, who relates the history, sententiously winds up his narrative with the apposite words, "Thanks be to God!" The Tragedies of the Medici An example of such a phenomenon occurs to me which, just now, seems apposite. The Theory of Social Revolutions Upon that score, my lord,—you know I am fond of comparisons, and I think I have hit upon one in this case, that must be acknowledged remarkably apposite. Four Early Pamphlets We will introduce it by an apposite anecdote. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia These reflections may not seem very apposite to the subject of the Canal; but they will suggest themselves to one who arrives in Panama after traveling through the Latin States of South America. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 The Recent Days (1910-1914) "We can always make our lord the Pope do as we please," was Archbishop Salviati's very apposite declaration! The Tragedies of the Medici Hence appositely are the practisers thereof termed whisperers and backbiters: their heart suffers them not openly to avow, their conscience tells them they cannot fairly defend their practice. Sermons on Evil-Speaking "No one has a right to stop the man, I believe, Miss Abbott," put in Jenny, very appositely. Home as Found The lily of the valley has had several emblems conferred upon it, each of which is equally apposite. The Folk-lore of Plants The strictures of our stage historian are entirely apposite and correct. The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III Strange—in the knowledge of that underground hell-hole—how apposite has been the naming of the Pit. The House on the Borderland Writing for this Cyclopædia was evidently very apposite work for Mrs. Shelley. Mrs. Shelley The poem I admit does not sound very apposite in the year 1922, but it well reflected my indignation some fifty years ago. The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography "Would not the lodestone be the more apposite simile?" asked Lord Cloverton. Princess Maritza How curiously apposite seem Dryden's lines, written in a very different connection! Without Prejudice Also, that most of what Mr. Fry said would sound just as apposite to-day as it did then, and be backed by just as much reason. 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 This is apposite to dwell on as showing the want of this influence on Shelley and his surroundings. Mrs. Shelley I fancy my father troubled his head little about these would-be-wise demonstrators, worthy forerunners of the Boulevard braggarts who, at a later date, in 1870, so appositely shouted "a Berlin." Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville By G. Adams this space has been appositely called archetypal space, or ur-space. Man or Matter He felt "that he was dying," to use Haines Bayley's beautiful and apposite words, and meditated an exchange, but that, from circumstances, was out of the question. The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 1 Hazlitt, who had something like a genius for felicitous, apposite quotation, and steadily bettered it as he grew older, would certainly have said 'Yes' to this. Characters of Shakespeare's Plays From a curious collection of Aubrey's memoranda I have selected a few of the most interesting and most apposite to Wiltshire. The Natural History of Wiltshire Nature, that furnishes samples of all qualities ', and on the scale of gradation exhibits all possible shades, affords us types that are more apposite than words. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Masson has some apposite remarks on the influence of the Ptolemaic system "upon the thinkings and imaginations of mankind everywhere on all subjects whatsoever till about two hundred years ago." The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth It was not so long ago that, although presumption on a landlady's part would have goaded Mavis into making an apposite retort, she would have bitterly regretted the pain that her words may have inflicted. Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl And at the same time with such apposite trenchancy. Ulysses The apothegm, however, was not apposite to me, because it involved a declaration that I was a good man, and I don't know anyone who has the right so to appreciate himself. Letters of Franklin K. Lane Mrs Gildea, who understood the personal application, broke in across the table with an apposite remark about her own early experiences of the Blacks. Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life Then the wall of a house rose appositely and met them. Maurice Guest Counterfeit and false though the garish joys of these spangled temples were, he perceived that deep under the gilt surface they offered saving and apposite balm and satisfaction to the restless human heart. The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million How appositely the "Canon's Yeoman" describes the arrogance of those who are too clever by half; "when a man has an over-great wit," he says, "it very often chances to him to misuse it"! Chaucer Their translations of our words into their language are always apposite, comprehensive, and drawn from images familiar to them. A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson But the third I preferred for she said in reply, * With expression most apposite, exquisite:— My soul and my folk I engage for the youth * Musk- scented I see in my bed every night! The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 07 And the clerk said, "Thy words are apposite and thy rede is right." The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 06 You see how smart, how apposite, how clear-cut the verses are, and I can promise you that the whole book is equally good. Letters of the Younger Pliny, First Series — Volume 1 I think the most apposite is the Act of Independency; the King, Lords, and Commons have united in sundering this country from that, I think, forever. The Eve of the Revolution; a chronicle of the breach with England These remarks upon shrapnel might be included in the account of half the battles of the war, but they are particularly apposite to the action at Enslin. The Great Boer War And Timotheus appositely says, By the blue heaven that wheels the stars, And by the moon that eases women's pains. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies The rejoinder was so apposite that the House broke into a roar of laughter, and the Speaker carried his point. The Cleveland Era; a chronicle of the new order in politics The guests as they entered felt that neither threat nor constraint was hanging over them, as in C�sar's house, where a man might forfeit his life for praises not sufficiently great or sufficiently apposite. Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero This prophecy was strengthened by apposite quotations showing the existing drift of opinion in the United States. The Canadian Dominion; a chronicle of our northern neighbor The reflection of the light from the pewter was injurious to my eyes, and the labour of invention for apposite subjects and verses was most fatiguing. The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 2 Here is another set of resolutions which I think are apposite to the matter in hand. The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 3 The Lincoln-Douglas debates More than once exactly the right moment presented itself when he could interject an apposite remark. T. Tembarom The moral phraseology has ceased to be apposite, and an external standard of responsibility has been reached. The Common Law The Doctors of Divinity were aghast at such questions, which seemed to lead they hardly knew whither; and they found it difficult to think of very apposite answers. Eminent Victorians "There is a new moon to-night," Miss March remarked, appositely and gravely. John Halifax, Gentleman Whereupon, setting nose to nose, the pair plunged into a quarrel still more heated as they expounded in simple, but often curiously apposite, language opinions intelligible to themselves alone. Through Russia My dear Shack," said he, "if I know anything of life I know that every sudden, deep and tragic emotion in the human heart calls forth an apposite, concordant, conformable and proportionate expression of feeling. Strictly business: more stories of the four million A word or two, suggesting some apposite allusion, will often greatly enhance the beauty of a composition for the connoisseur, but will fall flat on the ears of those to whom the quotation is unknown. The Civilization of China And it is all as true and apposite to-day in the innermost centre of this Christian civilisation whereof Edward VII. is king. The People of the Abyss "I don't know: I suppose I shall manage somehow—like the sparrows," he answered, perceiving not how apposite his illustration was. John Halifax, Gentleman These migratory movements of peoples have been called drifts, and the word is apposite. A Collection of Stories Her footsteps strayed to this gate, bringing her here by chance, as an apposite contrast to you. Tom Tiddler's Ground That shot of yours, whether by instinct or intention, of the hawk and the pigeon was peculiarly apposite. Lair of the White Worm I felt from the first that there was something wrong about him, and I always suspected that it was he who silenced Mrs. Vandemeyer so appositely. Secret Adversary But the petition "Forgive us our trespasses," falling in so apposite after they had themselves forgiven the immediate author of their miseries, sounded like an absolution. The Wrecker |
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