Careful Words

apt (v.)

apt (adj.)

Apt alliteration's artful aid.

Charles Churchill (1731-1764): The Prophecy of Famine. Line 86.

Delivers in such apt and gracious words

That aged ears play truant at his tales,

And younger hearings are quite ravished;

So sweet and voluble is his discourse.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Love's Labour's Lost. Act ii. Sc. 1.