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Updated: June 9, 2025
"Everything turns up in the end including Mrs. Quackenboss's nose." "Seymour," said my brother-in-law, "your hilarity is inopportune." To say the truth, Charles was beside himself with anger. He took the elevator down to the "Bureau," as they call it, and complained to the manager.
Secondly, Saint Nicholas similarly rescued two men from the scaffold, but not at a moment so inopportune for himself. If the rescue had law behind it, and it might be so defended, it was a very awkward moment to choose to champion a hangdog. But this was the age of chivalry, and without such innate chivalry Hugh would never have cast the spell he did over King Richard's England.
In the impossibility of instantly making up his mind upon this unexpected emergency, Philip fell, as it were, into a long reverie, than which nothing could be more inopportune. With a country in a state of revolution and exasperation, the trance, which now seemed to come over the government, was like to be followed by deadly effects.
If we don't get them to the surface before the last of this month, at latest " "We'll have to wait until another spring?" asked she. "Looks that way," he assented, putting a few final touches to the calendar. "So you see it's up to us to hurry and certainly nothing more inopportune than this devilish rain could possibly have happened! Haste, haste! We must make haste!"
Miss Bailey determined, in view of the frightened expression in the new-comer's eyes, to forgive his inopportune enlistment. At her cordial words of welcome the alarm spread from his wide eyes to his trembling lips, and Teacher turned to the relatives to ask: "Doesn't he speak English?" There ensued much babbling and gesticulation.
Curtis, in an agony of restless anxiety, could not help coming to see that the interview was doing no harm. "Don't go!" exclaimed Rachel, holding out her hand as he turned at the opening of the door. "Oh, mother!" and there was an evident sound of disappointment. Mrs. Curtis was infinitely rejoiced to find her entrance thus inopportune.
In the course of countless generations the attributes have faded, but even to this day the true descendants of the line of Ning are frequently vouchsafed dreams in which they stand naked and without shame, see gems or metals hidden or buried in the earth and float at will through space. The Inopportune Behaviour of the Covetous Li-loe
"'O exceedingly painstaking, but nevertheless highly inopportune Kai Lung, he replied at length, while in his countenance this person read an expression of no-encouragement towards his venture, 'all your entrancing efforts do undoubtedly appear to attract the undesirable attention of some spiteful and tyrannical demon.
But it is necessary that such changes be effected by degrees, not with such inopportune haste as to imperil the moral constitution of the nation. A war for independence, a war that obliges the race to stake its all upon the issue, must bring about a tightening of the old social bonds, a strong quickening of the ancient sentiments of loyalty and duty, a reinforcement of conservatism.
After this Dunbar tunes forth a song of welcome to "his ain Lord Thesaurair," in which terror at this functionary's inopportune absence since quarterday we may suppose is lost in gratulations over his return. "Welcome," he cries "Welcome my benefice and my rent And all the lyflett to me lent, Welcome my pension most preclair, Welcome my awin Lord Thesaurair."
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