How To Use propinquity In A Sentence
- Between the Macphails and the Davidsons, who were missionaries, there had arisen the intimacy of shipboard, which is due to propinquity rather than to any community of taste. The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands
- But it is not the way for a man and a woman, in propinquity, to maintain a definite, unwavering distance asunder. CHAPTER XXVII
- Such loyalty is by no means automatic or the inevitable consequence of propinquity.
- He was not only the male heir in propinquity of blood, but his experienced years and known virtues excited all true Scots to place him on the throne. The Scottish Chiefs
- Physical propinquity, propinquity in time and space, with relationship to disasters having a physical cause but resulting in nervous shock, to use that expression, may well - well, I would assume, does give rise to a relationship.
- It may have been the effect of what Byron would call "blind contact," and the sage Mrs. Broadhurst "propinquity;" or it may have been that his hour was come. The Partisan Leader: A Novel...
- Such loyalty is by no means automatic or the inevitable consequence of propinquity.
- He found himself disgusted with their close propinquity.
- Due to historical ties and geographic propinquity, until the middle of the 14th century, Galician and Portuguese were in fact the same language, known as ‘Galaico Portugues’.
- The father and mother sat -- not side by side, in that propinquity which is so sweet, when every breath, every touch of the beloved's garment gives pleasure; they sat one at each corner of the table, engrossed in their several occupations; reading with an uncommunicative eagerness, and sewing in unbroken silence. Olive A Novel
