1 To this end, Ellen and Mammy bent their efforts, and as Scarlett grew older she became an apt pupil in this subject, even though she learned little else.
2 "An apt observation," he answered airily.
3 He sneered more, his words were apt to be more biting, but the manner that accompanied them was always punctilious--too punctilious.
4 Society is a revolving body which is apt to be judged according to its place in each man's heaven; and at present it was turning its illuminated face to Lily.
5 Hitherto he had found, in her presence and her talk, the aesthetic amusement which a reflective man is apt to seek in desultory intercourse with pretty women.
6 Sam Clark was particularly apt at them.
7 To accomplish his object Ahab must use tools; and of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are most apt to get out of order.
8 During that long interval Starbuck would ever be apt to fall into open relapses of rebellion against his captain's leadership, unless some ordinary, prudential, circumstantial influences were brought to bear upon him.
9 It is very fat and tender, and apt to tear in pieces in hoisting it on deck.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 75. The Right Whale's Head—Contrasted View. 10 Mental excitement was apt to send me with a rush back to my own naked land and the figures scattered upon it.
11 On the way home, however, the shivering was apt to come on him again; and so he would have to stop once or twice to warm up against the cruel cold.
12 If he does not, some one else will; and the saloon-keeper, unless he is also an alderman, is apt to be in debt to the big brewers, and on the verge of being sold out.
13 At length one of those low murmurs, that are so apt to disturb a multitude, was heard, and the whole nation arose to their feet by a common impulse.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 28 14 She was an apt woman; and a little experience soon demonstrated, to her satisfaction, that education and slavery were incompatible with each other.
15 Respectable families would be more apt to buy you, if they saw you looked plain and decent, as if you wasn't trying to look handsome.