"Always say a kind word if you can," says Helps, "if only that it may come in perhaps with a singular opportuneness, entering some mournful man's darkened room, like a beautiful firefly, whose happy circumvolutions he cannot but watch, forgetting his many troubles."
"Stray Thoughts for Girls"
Lucy H. M. Soulsby
I thanked him cordially, saying I was much in his debt, and he bowed me out, letting me fancy, as my father had fancied before me, and as though I had never observed and reflected in my life, that the opportuneness of this intervention signified a special action of Providence.
"The Adventures of Harry Richmond, Complete"
George Meredith Last Updated: March 7, 2009
The reproach incurred thereby does not, of course, apply in full force to the Bishop of Mayence, who has always told his colleagues that he is on their side on the question of opportuneness only.
"Letters From Rome on the Council"
Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger