opportune

• The hour was opportune, affording her time to visit poor Doctor Anstruther and return before her friends were up. —  Mary Louise Solves a Mystery
• The element of the opportune, the apposite, the fit, is always great part of the secret of eloquence. —  Classic French Course in English
• Though not of the requisite population, this was regarded as the opportune time for Kansas' admission as a slave State. —  Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865
• Their coming was most opportune, and but a short time elapsed before the comparative quiet was interrupted--first by volleys, followed by a continuous roar of battle Our battery was now ordered to the left of our line, and on the way thither joined Raines's battery, of Lynchburg, and a battery of Louisianians--eleven guns in all. —  The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson
• Tensely he waited for the opportune time One of the redskins carried a comb of honey. —  Kid Wolf of Texas

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