All 10 Uses of
appropriate
in
David Copperfield
- The word was appropriate to the moment.†
Chpt 1-3
- This quotation from Mr. Barkis was so appropriate, and tickled us both so much, that we laughed again and again, and were quite in a pleasant humour when we came within view of Mr. Peggotty's cottage.†
Chpt 10-12
- To all of which, that I might commit nobody, I invented, I am afraid, appropriate answers.†
Chpt 10-12
- She wore at her side a gentleman's gold watch, if I might judge from its size and make, with an appropriate chain and seals; she had some linen at her throat not unlike a shirt-collar, and things at her wrists like little shirt-wristbands.†
Chpt 13-15
- They are not expressive of affection, they are difficult to pack into a parcel of any regular shape, they are hard to crack, even in room doors, and they are oily when cracked; yet I feel that they are appropriate to Miss Shepherd.†
Chpt 16-18
- I recollect well how indignantly my heart beat, as I saw his crafty face, with the appropriately red light of the fire upon it, preparing for something else.†
Chpt 25-27 *
- No. The suggestion is not appropriate to our Dora.†
Chpt 37-39
- Appropriate, but unavailing.†
Chpt 37-39
- 'Come, fellow-partner,' said Uriah, 'if I may take the liberty, — now, suppose you give us something or another appropriate to Copperfield!'†
Chpt 37-39
- And it was very fortunate, with a view to his credit, that she did so; for I am confident that I detected him at that moment in the act of making preparations to stand on one leg, as an appropriate expression of delight.†
Chpt 43-45
Definition:
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(appropriate as in: it is appropriate) suitable (fitting) for a particular situation