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"_Never! nobody ever does; I am a proverb and a by-word for my malapropos speeches.— Nancy
Next day, thanks to his histrionic powers and his ingratiating address, he was promoted to the rank of "supernumerary captain's servant"--a "post which," I give his words, "I flatter myself, was created for me alone, and furnished me with opportunities unequalled for a task in which one word malapropos would have been my destruction From this point onward, earth and water between them held no marvels like to those "M. de C." had "envisaged"--if I translate him correctly.— Traffics and Discoveries
Mrs. Lashmar had a genius for the malapropos.— Our Friend the Charlatan
As far as Mostyn was concerned, this first malapropos meeting indicated the whole evening.— The Man Between, an International Romance
You'll have to pardon my cursedly malapropos appearance.— A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45
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