à propos de bottes

Definitions

Apropos of nothing; without connection to anything; by the way, unrelatedly.

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Examples

“In fact, the renovated appearance of this monster—à propos de bottes, as one may say⟳—had already excited considerable sensation among the population of Hazeldean.”

“'That is a strange remark⟳,' said he; 'and à propos de bottes, I never continue⟳ a cigar when once the ash is fallen;[…]'”

“Suddenly jumped up; shook fist at back of ASQUITH's unoffending head, and, à propos de bottes, "wanted to know⟳ about the swindling companies and their shareholders?"”

“Of course, it is rather characteristic of the folk-mind, as of the child-mind, to heap up incidents à propos de bottes; but as this is one of the characteristics to be corrected in the child by his training in literature, so it is one of the faults which should exclude⟳ a fairy-tale from his curriculum.”

“Moody, restless, and unhappy, he wandered like⟳ a ghost about the town, bursting into soliloquies in public places, or asking odd questions, suddenly, à propos de bottes.”

“Suddenly, for no reason⟳, in the middle of the night, or even in the middle of the jolliest party, she would remember⟳ an ancient floater—just like⟳ that, à propos de bottes—would remember⟳ and be overcome⟳ by a feeling of self-reproach and retrospective shame.”

“And suddenly, à propos de bottes, he told me about his friend and how he died to save⟳ him.”

“Analysis at that moment was in any case out of reach⟳, because I realised that I had been left, at that moment, standing silently by Mrs Wentworth, to whom I now explained, à propos de bottes, that I knew Barnby.”

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