Petrarch quotes the same passage, and à propos of the same subject, in Var.
It seems à propos briefly to relate here Leonzio’s career subsequent to the professorship at Florence and to the translation of Homer.
The author of the admirable Propos de Labienus, Rogeard, allowed himself to be deceived by a false scruple of legality--the only weakness of this generous man, who devoted to the Commune his pure and brilliant eloquence.
She exchanged a glance with Vyvian; it was extraordinarily sweet to be able to do that; so many glances had been exchanged àpropos of her remarks between Vyvian and Miss Barnett.
But as you only answered my numerous letters by one, and that àpropos merely of Thomas's arrival, I could only surmise and speculate on your doings.
Unfortunately, time does not permit my giving the examples I would like of the varieties of resolutions in dreams--with their every degree of relevancy and irrelevancy, of a propos and bizarrerie.
It occurs to me, a propos of Fra Egidio, to make the obvious statement that an account of an occurrence is not necessarily true, because it happened long ago.
Gissing says, a propos of the products of a local photographer, that it was "a hideous exhibition; some of the visages attained an incredible degree of vulgar ugliness.
A propos of our militia, I have seen that of Switzerland.
A propos of that arrival; never pretend to allure me, by painting in odious colours the dust of London.
A propos upon reflexion, I directed it to Becket and neglected giving him any directions about it.
Pray, a propos of English and county news, who is our Lord Lieutenant?
A propos de bottes = With reference to nothing in particular.
A writer in the less friendly La France musicale goes even so far as to stultify himself by ridiculing, a propos of the A flat Impromptu, the composer's style.
Our history had nothing of a romance; its foundation was too simple and too serious for us ever to have had occasion for a quarrel with each other, a propos of each other.
A propos of Schubert, Chopin is reported to have said: "The sublime is dimmed when it is followed by the common or the trivial.
Then he put into the pocket his pipe, his pouch, his tobacco-stopper, and his matches, murmuring to himself a Greek iambic line which had come into his head a propos of nothing obvious.
But a proposof the said Rochefort, have they been somewhat imbecilic?
And a propos of this, do you think (you who are a master of psychology), that one can love two people in the same way and that one can experience two identical sensations about them?
A propos of Celtic archaeology, I published in L'Artiste in 1858, a rather good hoax on the shaking stones, but I have not the number here and I don't remember the month.
A propos of gypsies, do you know that there are gypsies of the sea?
I am overwhelmed by a black melancholy, which returns a propos of everything and nothing, many times a day.
Father Sainte-Beuve is preparing a discourse on free thought which he will read at the Senate a propos of the press law.
Furthermore, I shall try in the third part of my novel (when I reach the reaction that followed the days of June) to insert a panegyric about him a propos of his book: De la propriete, and I hope that he will be pleased with me.
And, a propos of Bouilhet, she hated him then, him too this poor poet?
A propos of Caesar, I can not believe, no matter what they say, in his near return.
As for our subject under discussion (a propos of your young man), what you write me in your last letter is so my way of thinking, that I have not only practised it but preached it.
A propos of Vendee, did you know that her paternal grandfather was, after M.
But a propos of what do you puzzle us with these queries on courage?
And a propos of 'moderate wishes in point of hatchet,' I want you to understand that I ask but little from Heaven.
The fine sentiment, therefore, of which a propos of this circumstance some writers have delivered themselves was altogether misplaced.
A Paris correspondent of the Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik (1834) remarked a propos of the F minor Concerto that there was much delicacy in the instrumentation.
A propos of his bursting into a wrong bedroom he says: "I am absent- minded, you know.
A propos of this circumstance, Chopin confesses in a letter to his people that he is at a loss what to write, that he lacks the requisite wit.
Propos d'amour are not for young ladies who are unmarried.
During dinner Lady Dashwood said, not a propos of anything-- "Your poor Uncle John is beginning to get restive, and I suppose I shall have to go back to him in a few days.
Thou shouldst talk of my ingratitude to the duchess--à propos of the Constable de Bourbon.
But a propos of your new journal, Savarin, there is a paragraph in it to-day which excites my curiosity.
But a propos of Mr. Vane--Frank will be sure to see him, and scold him well for deserting us all.
A propos of beaux esprits, be sure to leave orders with your bookseller, if you have one, to enter your name as subscriber to a new journal.
A propos of our contributors, I shall ask you to present me to the fair author of The Artist's Daughter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "propos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
