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felicity of expression
Definition
pleasing and appropriate manner or style; or an instance of such
- Dorothea's faith supplied all that Mr. Casaubon's words seemed to leave unsaid: what believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity?Book 1 — Miss Brooke (38% in)
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- By-and-by Celia would come in her quality of bridesmaid as well as sister, and through the next weeks there would be wedding visits received and given; all in continuance of that transitional life understood to correspond with the excitement of bridal felicity, and keeping up the sense of busy ineffectiveness, as of a dream which the dreamer begins to suspect.Book 3 — Waiting for Death (50% in)
- It expressed regrets and proposed remedies, which, when Mr. Brooke read them, seemed felicitously worded—surprisingly the right thing, and determined a sequel which he had never before thought of.Book 3 — Waiting for Death (70% in)
- The felicitous word "demise," which had seasonably occurred to him, had raised his spirits even above their usual evening pitch.Book 3 — Waiting for Death (81% in)
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