half-apropos

Updated: May 20, 2025

Sometimes he would endeavor to contribute his share to the general amusement, as by growling comically, to provoke and mystify a dog; and by some bashful and half-apropos observations. In the afternoon there came a fresh bevy of students onward from Williamstown; but they made only a transient visit, though it was still raining.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1