"Propinquity" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... She was boring him terribly before they reached Brook Green. She took leave with a deportment correct but acquired at an age too late. Still, he had liked to see her home in the taxi. She was young, and she was an object pleasing to the eye. He realised that he was not accustomed to the propinquity of young women. What would his cronies at the Club say to the escapade?... Odd, excessively odd, that the girl should be Sissie's partner, in a business enterprise of so odd a character!... The next thing was to meet Eve after the ...
— Mr. Prohack • E. Arnold Bennett
... closeness, proximity, propinquity, contiguity, adjacency, imminence, approximation, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming
... often made by propinquity, neighbourhood, adjacent homes, and constant meetings in ...
— The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII. No. 358, November 6, 1886. • Various
... would show that mere friendly propinquity may constitute a danger. Last summer an honest, straightforward girl from a small lake town in northern Michigan was working in a Chicago cafe, sending every week more than half of her wages of seven dollars to her mother and little sister, ...
— A New Conscience And An Ancient Evil • Jane Addams
... of it. His love for her seemed changed to hate, and she tremblingly averted her gaze. At this juncture, the door opened, and the grocer and his wife entered the room. The former started, on seeing Amabel and the supposed preacher in such close propinquity, and a painful suspicion of the truth crossed his mind. He was not, however, kept long in suspense. Throwing off his wig, and letting his own fair ringlets fall over his shoulders, the earl tore open his cassock, and disclosed his ...
— Old Saint Paul's - A Tale of the Plague and the Fire • William Harrison Ainsworth
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