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Example sentences for "unaptly"

Lexicographically close words:
unapprized; unapproachable; unapproached; unappropriated; unapt; unarm; unarmed; unarmored; unarmoured; unarticulated
  1. The cry of "old wigs" had ceased with the possession of any such fripperies; his sack might have contained not unaptly a little mould to scatter upon that grave, to which he was now advancing; but it told of vacancy and desolation.

  2. It is written with some stiffness and peculiarities of style, but some parts of it, I think, not unaptly characterise the profession to which Mr. Middleton has the honour to belong.

  3. But we are compelled to pass by this son of Jesse, to direct our attention to one who may not unaptly be styled 'the man of parables.

  4. These words of the Gospel are here not unaptly applied to the destination of this building, which is to furnish water to the garden of the Tuileries, whose basins were not, on that account, the less dry half the year.

  5. This apartment presents itself to our inquisitive looks, as a Hall of Introduction, which may not be unaptly compared to the preface of a grand work.

  6. I should rather say it would not unaptly express the thinness, the unsubstantialness of it, as of a rose leaf surface merely.

  7. As the chyle does not become assimilated to the blood until it has passed through the lungs, this term, which signifies blood-making, is not unaptly used.

  8. The vernacular name of gum-trees for the eucalypts is as unaptly given as that of most others of our native plants, on which popular appellations have been bestowed.

  9. Another of Mr. Christie's flights of fancy may not unaptly be termed the puff poetical.

  10. Not unaptly is this pernicious beverage so denominated.

  11. It has already deviated many feet from the perpendicular, and might not unaptly be described as the Leaning Tower of Ningpo.

  12. These sermons are of exceptional excellence.


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