As a result of his naturalism, Plutarch admitted as appropriate poetical material immorality and obscenity as well as virtue, because these things are in life.

Having the subjects given me, but without seeing a foot of the canvas, I knocked off a few remarks, which I aimed to render as appropriate as circumstances, and no regard whatever for the truth, would permit.

" "Of course," she replied, such summary discipline seeming to her as appropriate as to an European child.

As a descriptive title, "Poems of Sentiment and Reflection" is quite as good as "Poems akin to the Antique," and "Poems of the Fancy" quite as appropriate as "Poems of Ballad Form.

The family likeness is certainly very strong in the two last; and if we had not been told, we should perhaps have thought the act of deriding as appropriate to Laughter as to Sport.

We used the word indictments with design, both as appropriate to Mr. Choate's profession and exactly descriptive of the thing itself.

The scenery, painted with as much fidelity as truth, is sometimes brought before the eye by minute description, and sometimes, with still happier effect, by incidental touches,an epithet or a simile, as appropriate as it is suggestive.

Had the image been Pan instead of St. Agatha, the ceremonies would have been quite as appropriate.

In the expression of individual regret at this afflicting event the Executive Departments of the Government will be careful to manifest every observance of honor which custom has established as appropriate to the memory of one so eminent as a public functionary and so distinguished as a citizen.

We trust that their benevolent teachings, and the Christian spirit which pervades them, will commend them to Sunday School Teachers, and all others engaged in the moral education of children, as appropriate gifts to the young.

It struck me at once as appropriate to call him "Shiny Face," or "Shiny Eyes," or "Shiny Teeth," and I spoke of him often by one of these names to the other boys.

But the system of arrangement which has been explained as appropriate to other kinds of speeches may be transferred to this also.

There is, for instance, an episodical chapter of upwards of thirty pages, describing commercial England in a state of panic, which is very nearly as appropriate as a disquisition on the Primary Rocks, or an inquiry into the origin of the Cabala would be, but which is so palpably introduced for the purpose of displaying the author's financial erudition, that he feels himself called upon to apologize in a brief preface for its intrusion.

Then comes the Courts of Justice; an immense structure nearly 600 feet long, with a tower 175 feet high, which resembles the Law Courts of London, and is as appropriate as it is imposing.

But when a man has passed the period allotted for the average of his race, ought not these preoccupations to be reckoned to him rather as appropriate and meritorious?

As my story of Lewis Carroll's life draws near its end, I have received some "Stray Reminiscences" from Sir George Baden-Powell, M.P., which, as they refer to several different periods of time, are as appropriate here as in any other part of the book.

But somehow it seemed just as appropriate out here under the glorious beeches.

It is just as appropriate.

I humbly bring my book to you as Phidyle approached another and less sacred shrine, farre pio et saliente mica, and lay before you this my valueless mean tribute not as appropriate to you but as the best I have to offer.

[It is not possible to explain this costume as appropriate.

[It is not possible to explain this costume as appropriate.

Though he thinks that a silk handkerchief is quite as appropriate for drawing-room use as a white cambric one, he is not altogether at ease in acting out his opinion.

Imagine an engineer driving his locomotive in blue coat, yellow waistcoat, and ruffles,quite as appropriate as a fastidious dress on the automobile.

'Ha, pretty prisoner,' and the words 'dimple down' came to my mind at once as appropriate.

As appropriate honors to the memory of these distinguished Secretaries, half-hour guns will be fired at every military post furnished with the proper ordnance the day after the receipt of this order from sunrise to sunset.