142 examples of apropos in sentences

Will any one henceforth doubt my fortitude? I have one rather comforting reflection, apropos to that rencontre.

'E'en if not wealth thine object be, 'Tis all the same, thou'rt changed to me.' "Is not this apropos in such cases?" Tsz-k'in asked of Pih-yu, "Have you heard anything else peculiar from your father?" "Not yet," said he.

] Apropos of horses.

" Mr. Cassilis smiled, and his teeth seemed to gleam whiter, and sharper than ever in the moon-light: "Wouldn't it be rather more apropos if you said'Good-bye' Mr. Bellew?" he enquired.

" An apropos remark about "come wheel come woe" flashed into my mind, but before I could frame it in properly sympathetic language, a taxi drew up at the door with Gertie 'Uggins installed in state alongside the driver.

* Apropos of the stage, it is a curious circumstance that nine-tenths of 'the profession' in France are ardent Dreyfusards.

[Illustration: NO. 78] Apropos of the minor details of man's garments, the button as a feature of clothes has never been fully done justice to.

In concluding this chapter on the Roman remains in our county, apropos of the wholesale destruction of the Wall and larger stations which has taken place in the last century or two, I will quote the words of two historians on that subject.

But now, apropos of the nest, I've a crow to pick with you.

Apropos, how long has Morris Birbeck been dead?

"Their teachings are singularly apropos to my casemercy, justice, humanityyes, and love of man.

Monthly Mag.Apropos, we find there are now seven leopards in the society's collection, and that one day last summer the receipts at the gate amounted to.

And apropos of him, let us note a curious instance of the tenacity of associated ideas.

" Apropos of this I may mention that, when staying at Eastbourne, he never went down to the beach without providing himself with a supply of safety-pins.

He wished Miss Heydinger many happy returns of the day, apropos of nothing, and he threw a bun across the refreshment room at Smithers and hit one of the Art School officials.

Apropos I have seen your Scotchmen fight, and very stout fantassins they make, but I thought from them, that the folk over here all worehow do you say it?petticoats.

Apropos of garnets, the discovery, in the heart of New York city, of as fine a crystal as was ever found on this continent, and weighing 9 pounds 10 ounces, may be mentioned as a matter of peculiar interest.

Thus, in August, 1791, he wrote a letter apropos of the bad health of George A. Washington and added: "My daughter Nancy is there [Mt. Vernon] by way of Amusement awhile.

Spotswood, Gen. Alexander, Washington's letter to apropos of slavery, 214.

And apropos of misunderstandings, I may add to this note a complaint on my own account.

Apropos of sowing anti-slavery truths, I remember seeing at the first anti-slavery fair I attended,in 1853, I think,a sampler made in 1836 by a little girl, a pupil in a school where evidently great pains were taken to propagate anti-slavery principles.

Apropos, I doubt these new kites have put young Astley's nose out of joint, who went to Paris lately under their Queen's protection, and expected to be Prime Minister, though he only ventured his neck by dancing a minuet on three horses at full gallop, and really in that attitude has as much grace as the Apollo Belvedere.

Apropos of this claim that American officers tacitly recognized the Insurgent government, certain passages from an unsigned document in the handwriting of Mabini, prepared about July 15, 1898, are of interest.

"Idolatry," says Buskin, apropos of Carlyle's well-known doctrine, "is summed up in the one broad wickedness of refusing to worship Force and resolving to worship No-Force; denying the Almighty, and bowing down to four-and-twopence with a stamp on it.

The pictures were apropos of nothing; they had been suggested by nothing I had been reading or talking of; they simply came as if I had been able to look through a glass at what was occurring somewhere else in the world.

142 examples of  apropos  in sentences