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Carthage being so much older than Rome, had felt her decay, says Polybius, so much the sooner; and the survivor too, he foresaw, carried in her bosom the seeds of mortality. The image indeed is apposite, and the history of mankind renders the application familiar. But it must be obvious, that the case of nations, and that of individuals, are very different.
"I shall prove to you, gentlemen of the jury," said the Colonel solemnly, drawing a Bible from his coat-tail pocket, "that the defendant for the last twelve months conducted an amatory correspondence with the plaintiff by means of underlined words of Sacred Writ and church psalmody, such as 'beloved, 'precious, and 'dearest, occasionally appropriating whole passages which seemed apposite to his tender passion.
So, concentrating all the force of his mind to shape such an answer as might avoid the snare, he presently lit on what he sought, saying: "My lord, a pretty question indeed is this which you propound, and fain would I answer it; to which end it is apposite that I tell you a story, which, if you will hearken, is as follows: If I mistake not, I remember to have often heard tell of a great and rich man of old time, who among other most precious jewels had in his treasury a ring of extraordinary beauty and value, which by reason of its value and beauty he was minded to leave to his heirs for ever; for which cause he ordained, that, whichever of his sons was found in possession of the ring as by his bequest, should thereby be designate his heir, and be entitled to receive from the rest the honour and homage due to a superior.
For he that could by historic illustration and gems of logic carry conviction in a cultured city would be "wasting his sweetness on the desert air" in the rural surroundings of the cabins of the lowly. I have heard a point most crudely stated, followed by an apposite illustrative anecdote, by a plantation orator silence the more profuse cultured and eloquent opponent.
One of the secrets of his success, it is said, was his command of colloquial simile, apposite stories, and ready wit. Mr. Bright always had himself well in hand, yet his style at times was volcanic in its force and impetuosity.
"I only know that I wish I had not left your side," said she adding, "Though you must have thought me what, if I were a man, you Members of Parliament would call 'a bore, for asking perpetual questions." "Nay, an apposite interrogation is the guarantee of a proper interest in the subject," said the baronet. Cornelia was very soon reverted to.
He had evidently been deaf to something that deeply moved the rest. Even Balder made remarks which seemed to be regarded as apposite. "What IS it?" asked Lady Cressage, with obvious feeling. "I don't know when anything has touched me so much." "Old Danish songs that I picked up on the quai in Paris for a franc or two," replied Miss Madden.
The overloaded appetite loathes even the honeycomb, and it is scarce a wonder that the knight, mortified and harassed with misfortunes and abasement, became something impatient of hearing his misery made, at every turn, the ground of proverbs and apothegms, however just and apposite.
Most of my examples deal with flowers and perhaps the most apposite is the following: I plucked a stem of blossoms of white everlasting and wore it inside my waist on my bosom all day, asking as I fastened it in, How will this reappear in my dream? The following morning as consciousness returned, I had a vision of a baby's bottle filled with milk and beyond it, more faint, another similar bottle.
"Ay, free from the curse and the second death," she said, still despondingly; "but from pains and penalties of sin in this life, Maude, not freed. An' I cut mine hand with yonder knife, God shall not heal the wound by miracle because I am His child." Maude felt that the illustration was true, but she was not sure that it was apposite, neither was she convinced that her own view was mistaken.
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