After the fact you mentioned it struck me as rather apposite; but I may have been wrong.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss
He felt "that he was dying," to use Haines Bayley's beautiful and apposite words, and meditated an exchange, but that, from circumstances, was out of the question.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
Certainly John Redmond was there during the session of 1876, for on the introduction of Mr. Gladstone's second Home Rule Bill he recalled a finely apposite Shakespearean quotation which he had heard Butt use in a Home Rule debate of that year.
"John Redmond's Last Years"
Stephen Gwynn