Example Sentences

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"Did you not come from France—from Dijon, recently?" went on Leoline, rather inappositely, as it struck her hearer.

From The Midnight Queen by Fleming, May Agnes

He therefore not inappositely calls him, in this letter to Calvin, "conductitius Balaam."

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Baird, Henry Martyn

And yet I may, not very inappositely, make a previous remark.

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall