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Opportunely

adverb
1.
At an opportune time.  Antonym: inopportunely.






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"Opportunely" Quotes from Famous Books



... advice to take them being wrapped round the bottle and thrown in for nothing) that homeopathy has become a way of rehabilitating the trade of prescription compounding, and is consequently coming into professional credit. At which point the theory of opsonins comes very opportunely ...
— The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors • George Bernard Shaw

... Pontarlier, which he had himself seen. As I had arranged to meet my sisters at Neufchatel, in two days' time, for the purpose of visiting a glaciere in the Val de Travers, this piece of information came very opportunely, and I determined to attempt ...
— Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland • George Forrest Browne

... passed slowly away before Mr. McCoy with his party reached the fort. Very opportunely he brought a fresh supply of animals; having purchased a number at Fort Walla Walla. The united band returned to the Green river. Here Mr. Carson joined a party of one hundred trappers who, in their strength, were to plunge into the ...
— Christopher Carson • John S. C. Abbott

... rapidly than the one by which we had ascended; that it also increased, and we were guided by it into a little valley, verdant with young grass, while yet the red sky over a departed sun shone reflected from several broad ponds of water. This seemed to us a charming spot, so opportunely and unexpectedly found, and we alighted on a fine grassy flat by the margin of a small lagoon, where stood a most graceful group of bushes for shelter or shade. After sunset, the sky was overcast with very heavy clouds; the air was sultry, ...
— Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia • Thomas Mitchell

... that the day was so warm, for the president had left the window open when he left, otherwise Burke could not possibly have carried out his plan so opportunely. ...
— Traffic in Souls - A Novel of Crime and Its Cure • Eustace Hale Ball


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