The word is not only prettier, but in this instance more appropriate.

The popular poet La Harpe, whom the partiality of Voltaire had designated as the heir of his genius, had composed an address, which the spokeswoman of the party had written out on the back of her fan, and now read with a sweet voice, which had procured her the honor of being so selected, and with very appropriate delivery.

The festivities were crowned in the most appropriate manner by a public thanksgiving, offered by the queen herself to Heaven for the gift of a son, and for her own recovery.

The expression in general means nothing; but, applied to the writings of Milton, it is most appropriate.

They are not always more appropriate or more melodious than other names.

Yet it seemed to him very appropriate to his circumstances, and he absolutely refused to exchange rooms with M. Desmoulin, who was somewhat more comfortably lodged.

So we go on, calling up possible causes and applying appropriate remedies until the right one is found and the engine is started.

Therefore, keep in your mind the kind of thoughts that you wish to see actualized in your character and the appropriate acts will follow of their own accord.

The appropriate attitude may be one of resignation, with the determination to make it as slightly disturbing as possible.

We have formerly shown how the youthful Greece and the youthful Italyboth of them with a certain measure of simplicity and originalitygave and received intellectual impulses; and how at a later period Rome endeavoured after a more external manner to appropriate to practical use the language and inventions of the Greeks.

We finally engaged a man who said he knew how to get to the foot of the mountain, so we called him "guide" for want of a more appropriate title.

While this feeling continues, we shall not look to him for poetry; and the only imaginative writing in which he is likely to be generally used as material, will be kindred to that known by the appropriate title of "Pirate Literature."

First came an old medicine man, whose Indian name I cannot recall; but the children of the garrison called him "Old Sneak"a most appropriate appellation, for he always looked as if he had just committed murder, and was afraid of being found out.

"Let dogs delight" would have been, an appropriate melody for the occasion.

This was the 'Hell-fire Club,' held in appropriate orgies at Medmenham Abbey, Buckinghamshire.

The first course consisted of tongues, cooked in different ways and served with appropriate sauces.

Dear SirI have again been reading your stanzas on Bloomfield, which are the most appropriate that can be imagined, sweet with Doric delicacy.

He knows it indeed, and, if need were, he could preach a homily on the fragility of life; but he brings it not home to himself, any more than in a hot June, we can appropriate to our imagination the freezing days of December.

If I can light upon a few appropriate rhymes (but rhymes come with difficulty from me now)

The grandeurfor that seems the appropriate wordof his dealings with men of high genius, is seen in his payments to Byron, while his confidence in the solid value of literary excellence appears from the fact that, when the Quarterly was not paying its expenses, he gave Southey for his "Life of Nelson" double the usual rate of remuneration.

The emperor after inspecting his body and feasting his eyes upon it to the full while he let his tongue indulge in appropriate utterances, ordered it,all but the head,to be cast out, and that he sent to Rome to be exposed on a cross.

We subjoin the Autographs of some of the principal conspirators, from the same source as the preceding narrative, as an appropriate and equally authentic accompaniment: Robert Catesbye.

"It 's most appropriate, I 'm sure, and denotes imagination.

Its existence, however, was not known till it was too late to insert it in its most appropriate place.

Now and then the chief would cough, when a shower of silver ornaments and precious things would fly in all directions, and instantly a scramble would commence among the company, to gather them up and appropriate them.

On the other hand, as Irish agrarian history well illustrates, the landlord may sometimes expropriate under the name of rent, permanent improvements which are due to the labors or the expenditure of the tenant.

appropriate, expropriate, impropriate^; assume, possess oneself of; take possession of; commandeer; lay one's hands on, clap one's hands on; help oneself to; make free with, dip one's hands into, lay under contribution; intercept; scramble for; deprive of.

Should the left wing be allowed to gain the upper hand, and the great capitalists of Shanghai be expropriated as it was proposed to expropriate the gentry?

(c) The catastrophic theory; the final and inevitable result of this movement must be a revolution, when the downtrodden workers will throw off their chains and expropriate the expropriators.

Another significant institution of civilization is the idea of ownership, the division of property into public property and private property and the right of the private property owner to do what he will with his property, subject always to the over-riding principle of eminent domain: the right of the community to expropriate private property for public uses, with or without compensation.