As he wandered slowly thus, his head bent and eyes a-dream, he came unto a certain shady arbour where fragrant herb and climbing blooms wrought a tender twilight apt to blissful musing.

But thou, apt in speaking the sacred tongue yet brutally ignorant of its treasures, knowing the father of the Gods only to revile him!

"I am not apt at mincing words.

So may the tortures which I have felt and still feel in my soul become fruitful, and the memory will suggest the words for them, and the hand, more eager than apt for such duty, will write them down.

Thus battles were still separate and distinct in Italy, with perceptible intervals of lull, less apt than in France to become one blurred series of gigantic actions.

This facility of learning by heart, and the habit of dreamy recitation, made me very familiar with the Bible and very apt with its phrases.

He was as apt as not (going on his facial expression) to be mooning about Sofia when his guest was gesticulating wildly and uttering three hundred words a minute.

This expression is not a bad one, as applied to small vessels in short seas, and it was particularly apt on this occasion.

" Children are apt of course to make startling remarks, but it is only the teacher who is startled by: "Was all this before God's birthday?"

The best masters of such wisdom are wont to interdict things, apt by unseasonable or excessive use to be perverted, in general forms of speech, leaving the restrictions, which the case may require or bear, to be made by the hearer's or interpreter's discretion; whence many seemingly formal prohibitions are to be received only as sober cautions.

I was always apt about washin' and ironin' and sewin'

Some of them are apt from time to time to have a gradually increasing desire that at last becomes irresistible, to "break out," as it is technically called; that is, to smash and tear everything they can within reach, and to shriek, curse, and howl.

If there were any hope of reputation or merit from such victory, I should be apt like others to cry up the courage and conduct of an enemy.