I call it unmeaning jargon, that I may avoid giving it a more appositeand disgraceful name.
With this apposite illustration, of which he seemed a little Proud, Mr Toots gave Captain Cuttle his blessing and departed.
This concluding line our author has condescended to borrow from Milton; but how apposite and forcible is the application!
This is apposite to dwell on as showing the want of this influence on Shelley and his surroundings.
Writing for this Cyclopædia was evidently very appositework for Mrs. Shelley.
There was marriage in the very air: and the same style of reflection which occurs when there is a death, is apposite also to the betrothal--"Whose turn shall come next?
That is to say, when any little matter fell out in a manner exactly apposite to any of her schemes, she called it providential.
Her illustrations wereapposite and poignant; and I had the pleasure of sending the substance of them to Mr. Bowles: but I suppose they came too late to be inserted among his ingenious notes upon that author.
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.
Billow after billow tossed its monstrous bosom into the air, and occasionally the waves from apposite directions met with such violence, as to dash the fiery spray, in the concussion, forty or fifty feet high.
Numerous authorities might be adduced on this side of the question, but perhaps a single one that is apposite may suffice.
Mr. Malone has cited a very apposite passage from Catullus, but Shakspeare had probably on this occasion the pathetic old poem of The nut-brown maid in his recollection.
The manuscript regulations for the stews in Southwark, printed but abridged in Stowe's Annals, would have furnished the learned commentator with a far more apposite illustration.
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.
The author has a large store of apposite quotations and anecdotes from which he draws with a lavish hand, and he has the art of brightening his pages with a constant play of humor that makes what he says uniformly entertaining.
Of this word I do not see any meaning that is very apposite to the present intention.
Warburton would read fetter, but flatter or sooth is, in my opinion, more apposite to the king's purpose than fetter.
The epic story which he had early plotted out must have lain very near the threshold of his consciousness through this period, for his mind kept seizing upon and storing up apposite incidents and germs of fruitful lore.
Whatever semi-apposite topic happens to suggest itself, provided only it contains pleasing fancies, invites him to tarry a while; he may or may not bring you back to the starting point.
Nothing could be more apposite than the allusions to "evil-doers drawing near against him to eat up his flesh" (i.
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?
I went to my Lord Griffith's chapel; the common church office was used for the King without naming the person, with some other, apposite to the necessity and circumstances of the time.
Last of all, the Vice-Chancellor, shutting up the whole in a panegyrical oration, celebrating their benefactor and the rest, apposite to the occasion.
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.
And in like manner, while the most simple subjects areapposite in a University pulpit, they certainly would there require a treatment more exact than is necessary in merely popular exhortations.
I mean that it was an extremely apposite accident for illustrating the subject upon which we were engaged at the moment of interruption.
Whether these existed in the original history Hardy doubts, and his remarks are so apposite that we reproduce them (op.
It seemed an apposite probability and this was the only thing about her that Gabriele cared to contemplate.
Here, within, was a tame volcanic oozing, frothy as waves, reshaping her clay landscape apposite to her liking.
We would fain hope, for the credit of human nature, that this adage is not quite so apposite as this Denham would have us believe.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "apposite" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
