But the chief peculiarity of his speech was its directness and appositeness.

Walker invented his simile and realised its appositeness at one and the same moment.

The appositeness of the song had cheered her up.

There was a certain grim appositeness about it all.

With what appositeness did he sketch the neighbouring landowners!

But unaware of the appositeness of her remark Miss Craven continued thoughtfully, still staring into the fire:

Rumors of his probable downfall were already reaching us, and the appositeness of the situation appealed to us.

Sometimes, propped up in his chair, he would be heard to murmur, with unexpected appositeness, the words of Samson:-

This, and the appositeness of it, quite carried Frona away, and she had both his hands in hers on the instant.

Grief grinned to himself at the appositeness of it as "Lead, Kindly Light," floated out over the dark water.

The appositeness was in the six acres of ground of the Lincoln trial and of the six months of the Beecher trial.

It had the tweedy texture of Scotch talk, the characteristic lack of suavity and richness in sense, in casual informativeness, in appositeness.

There is, too, a measure of appositeness in the structure and character of his themes-thethemes of asceticism, of Athanaël, of Thaïs.

The words, it was observed, were not merely on banners lettered in gold, but illustrated by portable tableaux of exquisite appositeness and beauty.

Sabatini, calm and dignified in his rigidly correct evening dress, his grace and good-looks, represented with curious appositeness the other extreme of life.

Johnny was not exactly interested; vistas were opened for which he had no eyes and which possessed no appositeness to his own aims.