| 单词 | appositeness |
| 例句 | I could not at the moment recall Enoch’s appositeness; so I had to ask a simple question, though I felt that by so doing I was lowering myself in the eyes of the lunatic:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Their dramatic and literary value would itself have sufficed to obtain attention for them at any time, though there can be no doubt that their popularity was mainly due to their political appositeness. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z There is neither necessity nor appositeness in placing the two writers in such juxtaposition. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z Her employer's trenchant simile as to Mrs. Willoughby's vocal powers could not but recur to Miss Bruce with a sense of its extreme appositeness when the guests entered. The War-Workers 2011-08-25T02:00:32.260Z His Chekhovian mots and those little traits that astonish us by their neatness and appositeness, he often took direct from life. Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov 2011-08-21T02:00:35.470Z The old saying, “Out of sight, out of mind” was proving its appositeness in her case. The Locusts' Years 2011-08-16T02:00:41.777Z It was true he had from time to time offered suggestions, the appositeness and value of which it was not for him to determine. Punch 1893.07.29 2011-04-01T02:00:37.493Z “He’s a driver and a master,” piped up Grizzly Whiskers, with the appositeness of a Greek chorus. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z Of that there could be no doubt, and he used it with a native grace, a varied inflection and appositeness which made it seem a part of him, and therefore robbed it of objection. Checkers A Hard-luck Story By his inexhaustible humour, and the point and appositeness of his impromptus, he quite carried his audience away. Weird Tales. Vol. I Still he saw no appositeness in the comparison, "as there was no C�sar in Paris." History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 We are not aware to what feature in our character the epithet funny will apply; but probably our self-esteem will not permit us justly to appreciate the appositeness of this somewhat ambiguous epithet. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 The appositeness of this illustration will be evident when it is applied to the subject under consideration. Free Ships: The Restoration of the American Carrying Trade Accident was often the occasion of sudden and unforeseen applications, which from their appositeness were very agreeable to the people. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) “Something will have to be done about getting a new teacher for that school,” he said with an appositeness which was only too painfully apparent. The Prairie Child But this passage, trifling as it may seem to some readers, appeared to me worth preserving, because my recent very careful reperusal of Maupassant, as a whole, made its appositeness constantly recur to me. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century More than once the store of a trader obnoxious to him had been burned down, and there was only the appositeness of the event to show that the administrator had instigated it. The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands Sometimes the answer was in the words of the Bible; but always, whatever it were, it was given, Eleanor felt, with singular appositeness to the interests before him. The Old Helmet, Volume I Just at this time I received a letter from Varvilliers containing intelligence which was not only interesting in itself, but seemed to possess a peculiar appositeness. The King's Mirror But in thinking out its details we may for the first time note its appositeness to the solution of the problem in hand. Human Traits and their Social Significance We have often thought, that if the various similes employed in the Scriptures were thoroughly understood, that their appositeness and beauty would be themes of increased admiration. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 Of course there will be room enough for contrariety of judgment among my readers, as to the necessity, or appositeness, or value, or good taste, or religious prudence, of the details which I shall introduce. Apologia Pro Vita Sua In his speeches, on the contrary, he quoted but little, and only when he seemed to run upon a thought already expressed by some one else with singular force and appositeness. Oration on the Life and Character of Henry Winter Davis Grief grinned to himself at the appositeness of it as "Lead, Kindly Light," floated out over the dark water. A Son Of The Sun Through some accidental appositeness to some contemporaneous situation, these may become generally current. Human Traits and their Social Significance And then he passes to earnest instructions and exhortations, which derive appositeness from regarding them as a proclamation to his men of the principles on which his camp is to be governed. The Life of David As Reflected in His Psalms Johnny was not exactly interested; vistas were opened for which he had no eyes and which possessed no appositeness to his own aims. On the Stairs Mina invited him in; there was an appositeness in his coming which appealed to her, and she watched Neeld with covert eagerness. Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House In 1835 he published his elaborate treatise on Baptism, which was followed by other Tracts from different authors, if not of equal learning, yet of equal power and appositeness. Apologia pro Vita Sua The remark of Dugald Stewart, on reading Edwards On the Will, occurs to him with peculiar appositeness, "There is a fallacy somewhere, but the devil only can find it." History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology There is a certain appositeness in the words I have just uttered that probably may correspond to my position. Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O But the appositeness of these allusions having passed, the verse being only beautiful, the maxims being only noble and just, and the piece being cold, people no longer felt anything more than the coldness. Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary “I heard yesterday that a good many folks in Banbridge had been losing money through Captain Carroll,” said Mrs. Van Dorn, with appositeness. The Debtor A Novel Of course there will be room enough for contrariety of judgment among my readers, as to the necessity, or appositeness, or value, or good taste, or religious prudence of the details which I shall introduce. Apologia pro Vita Sua We have a wholly different ideal, which in order to interest us powerfully painting must illustrate—an ideal of more pertinence and appositeness to our own moods and manner of thought and feeling. French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Then he added quickly, in words of Philip Rainham, which had flashed with sudden appositeness across his mind. A Comedy of Masks A Novel A man of genius would not consume an hour in extracting even a fortunate anagram from a name, although on an extraordinary person or occasion its appositeness might be worth an epigram. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 The Yaverlands have been well-to-do for at least four hundred years, and they never took the trouble to have a single thing made with any particular appositeness to themselves. The Judge Sabatini, calm and dignified in his rigidly correct evening dress, his grace and good-looks, represented with curious appositeness the other extreme of life. The Lighted Way The reasons now evoked by some against our political action outside our own borders might have been used then with equal appositeness against our commercial enterprises. The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future I may add, that the imitations of Horace by Pope, and of Juvenal by Johnson, are preferable to their originals in the appositeness of their examples, and in the poignancy of their ridicule. Essays on Wit No. 2 This, and the appositeness of it, quite carried Frona away, and she had both his hands in hers on the instant. A Daughter of the Snows It had the tweedy texture of Scotch talk, the characteristic lack of suavity and richness in sense, in casual informativeness, in appositeness. The Judge And the appositeness of the moment is just as perfect in this era of electric light and central heating, as it was in the era of Virgil, who, by the way, described a Christmas tree. The Feast of St. Friend She was in a gay humor at the success of the entertainment, despite the non-committal attitude of this censor, and pleased at the appositeness of her quotation. Unleavened Bread The position of the paper in Society was won by appositeness of political criticism, and the delicate edge of its satire. George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians He had used up all his saws and proverbs that were in the remotest degree appropriate to the occasion, and he had thrown in a few that were not remarkable for appositeness or compatibility. The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance The passage has no meaning, the illustrations no appositeness, unless Christ means that no thought is to be taken for the future. The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History Walker invented his simile and realised its appositeness at one and the same moment. Ensign Knightley and Other Stories No wonder then that his speeches are models of breadth and sweetness and appositeness, and that good judges regarded him when living as in this department of expression unrivalled. A Williams Anthology A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910 The figure derived appositeness from the prevalence of such species on the island. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers "Why, so they are, Uncle Venner," remarked Phoebe after a pause; for she had been trying to fathom the profundity and appositeness of this concluding apothegm. House of the Seven Gables I could not at the moment recall Enoch's appositeness, so I had to ask a simple question, though I felt that by so doing I was lowering myself in the eyes of the lunatic. Dracula A special appositeness was given to these reflections by the discovery, in a neighbouring pew, of the serious profile and neatly-trimmed beard of Mr. Percy Gryce. House of Mirth But its extraordinary appositeness to the Aphrodite's quest suddenly occurred to the young Englishman watching the sunlit isle. The Wheel O' Fortune When you have put a sentence together, examine each word separately, and unless it can satisfactorily account for its position there, by proving appositeness and either originality or indispensability, then cast it aside. Journalism for Women A Practical Guide The words, it was observed, were not merely on banners lettered in gold, but illustrated by portable tableaux of exquisite appositeness and beauty. The Prince of India — Volume 02 Rumors of his probable downfall were already reaching us, and the appositeness of the situation appealed to us. Maximilian in Mexico A Woman's Reminiscences of the French Intervention 1862-1867 There is, too, a measure of appositeness in the structure and character of his themes—the themes of asceticism, of Athanaël, of Thaïs. 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 There was a certain grim appositeness about it all. The Firefly of France I am inclined to the former alternative by the thought that many actions which are necessary to the performance of an object lose their point and appositeness when that object is attained. Letters of the Younger Pliny, First Series — Volume 1 There had been, in fact, no intermarriage among its members beyond what was natural in a small and isolated community, but the phrase had a certain appositeness. The Canadian Dominion; a chronicle of our northern neighbor But the chief peculiarity of his speech was its directness and appositeness. War and Peace The appositeness was in the six acres of ground of the Lincoln trial and of the six months of the Beecher trial. My Memories of Eighty Years With what appositeness did he sketch the neighbouring landowners! 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