Reflect how many ideas, apt and opportune for this service, would spring up casually, or be suggested by circumstances, or be attained by the earnest study of beings goaded in pursuit of change and novelty.
It therefore seemed an opportune moment for him to go to New York, and attend to his publishing interests there, especially as Messrs.
Therefore, with the opportune cheque in his pocket he decided to spend the ensuing months in careful study of pictures in Italy.
Opportune knew, though in a somewhat vague way, to what great personage she owed her life, and it appeared that the good cure had informed her, out of compassion, before he left this world.
Her pretty feet, so long as the fine season lasted, did not worry about being shod, and when November arrived with its terrors, Opportune took her little heeled sabots like the other country children.
Albanier wrote to Leontine: "Tell Madame la Marquise that Opportuneis full of wit; she resembles M.
Albanier lost no time in informing us that the little Opportune had begun to give her her confidence, and that the nuns took it in very good part, believing them both equally called to take the veil in their convent.
This idea grew so fixed in my mind, that I resolved to see Opportune and do her some good, if I were able.
Then Opportune was placed with the Augustinian ladies of Meaux, where Bossuet charged himself with the task of instructing her well in religion and of making her take the veil.
Bontems, that is to say, to the real father, and poor Opportune was taken to Moret, a convent of Benedictines, in the forest of Fontainebleau.
I think that would be the most opportune work for taking possession of your fame as a composer.
Don't ever try to be or to become something (unless there were opportune and immediate occasion for it), but work diligently and with perseverance to be and to become more and more some one.
Spain, whose opportune intervention might have modified the fate of the war, entered it too late to help France, but in time to share her misfortunes.
At a most opportune time a "new girl" moved into the neighborhood and entered school.
Such a conversation on the part of the teacher should never be forced, but introduced naturally and easily in some opportune moment.
Their commerce, which is maintained by a multitude of tradesmen, so many excellent channels made by art and opportune havens, to which they build their cities; all which we have in like measure, or at least may have.
At least it was opportune from the standpoint of Pike's enemies and traducers.
The present was an opportune time for the preferring of such a request.
The great republic, after its fashion, had waited till the opportune moment, and then struck once and for all.
Did you ever read or hear," said Calvin in a letter to Sturm, "of anything more opportune than the death of the King?
I think one may without presumption or profanity regard General Drysdale's opportune appearance as providential.
Opportune or no, it is the time which I have selected," the Duke answered stiffly.
I rode over to this spot, and to my great delight found a most excellent little rock tarn, of nearly an oblong shape, containing a most welcome and opportune supply of the fluid I was so anxious to discover.
After finding this opportune though awkwardly situated supply, I climbed to the summit of the mount.
Sometimes, suspecting the trap, or perhaps less pressed by hunger, she would remain coy and motionless, at a slight distance from the threshold, which she did not think it opportune to cross.
Does the mother, feeling the brood quicken inside the satin wrapper, herself break open the vessel at the opportune moment?
Mrs. Belmont was too fascinated and horror-stricken to struggle, and she thinks she would undoubtedly have been strangled had not succour once again arrived at the most opportune moment.
It displays all the author's well-known ability and learning, and its opportune publication has laid all students of theology, and specially of Bible criticism, under weighty obligation.
It was fortunate that Peggy should have arrived at that opportune moment, for there is no telling what might have occurred: Jess's patience was at the snapping-point.
I wish to have a serious talk with you and this seems a most opportune moment.
Denmark thought that the opportune moment was come to turn down the rising power of Sweden.
Now Gustavus found the opportune moment to accept the Swedish crown offered him.
Swedish emblem of three crowns for the Danish seal of state, as if by this proclaiming that the Union was considered still extant or that it could be re-established at the opportune moment.
But the point is this:--Scanderbeg is aware of your crime, and awaits only the opportune moment to punish you as it deserves.
The great chain at the entrance to the Golden Horn will be lowered at the opportune moment, and all the shipping in the harbor will make an attack upon the enemy's fleet.
The telephone message which had summoned Dunbar away had been too opportuneto be regarded as a mere coincidence.
Llorente describes the immediate issue: "Such opportune measures for multiplying victims could not but produce the desired effect.
All would probably have been lost but for theopportune arrival of Pedro Hernandez Coronel in February, 1498, who had been despatched from San Lucar by the admiral in the end of the previous year with reënforcements.
The Governor, Don Luis de Cespedes, having called upon the Indians of the Jesuit missions for personal service, a proceeding quite against both the King's orders and the Papal Bulls, the Bishop thought the moment opportune to press for tithes.
One day, when about the half of the force was hunting, the Indians fell upon it and cut it off to the last man; but for the opportune arrival of two vessels the fort would have been destroyed.
Soiled diapers should not accumulate in a corner or on the radiator; their removal should be immediate, and if they must await a more opportune time, soak them in a receptacle filled with cold water.
You could not have come to us," cried he, "in a more opportune moment.
For the Russians the opportune moment never arrives.
