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Example sentences for "connexion"

Lexicographically close words:
connectivity; connector; connectors; connects; conned; connexional; connexions; conning; conniption; connivance
  1. The distance being short, and my object having no connexion with the Company's interests, I set off on my pleasure jaunt alone.

  2. Special aid is given to penny-banks established in connexion with those of the Post-Office.

  3. The money-order system was likewise extended to the colonies, the first connexion of the kind having been opened with Canada and our European possessions of Gibraltar and Malta.

  4. Ten years after the removal of Docwray from his office in connexion with the "Penny Post," another rival to the Government department sprung up in the shape of a "Halfpenny Post.

  5. It does not appear why Prideaux's connexion with the Post-Office was dissolved, nor yet exactly when.

  6. The most gratifying fact in connexion with the new banks is, that they show a much larger proportion of small depositors than the old savings' banks have been able to attract, the average amount of a deposit being 3l.

  7. She spread her favourite study, The Old English Baron, on the table before her; but the hero had some connexion in her mind with Tom Madison, for whom she had always coveted a battle-field in France.

  8. They have no connexion with the nest, and are simply playing-places, in which the birds divert themselves during the months which precede nidification.

  9. St. Ursula One of the most interesting figures in connexion with Rhenish mythology is that of St. Ursula, whose legend is as follows: Just two centuries after the birth of Christ, Vionest was king of Britain.

  10. He had observed, however, that the strings of the harp were broken, and that the instrument seemed to have been long out of use, and thought that it possibly had some connexion with the original of the veiled portrait.

  11. The full story of Sigurd’s ancestry it is unnecessary to deal with here, as it has little influence on the connexion of the story of the Volsungs with the Nibelungenlied.

  12. We will recall that the events detailed in the first part of the lay of the Volsungs are vaguely alluded to in the Nibelungenlied, which assures us that the connexion we have thus drawn is a correct one.

  13. Now, Mr. Neefit had a very large connexion in the B.

  14. Of the numerous bearings taken with a theodolite from the top of Stamford Hill, those which follow were the most important to the connexion of the survey.

  15. Eric had sent his son Leif to the Norwegian court, so close at this time was the connexion between the metropolis and the colonies.

  16. On the Connexion of certain Volcanic Phenomena, and on the Formation of Mountain-chains and the Effects of Continental Elevations.

  17. On the Connexion of certain Volcanic Phenomena in S.

  18. For the Management of their Health during the Period of Pregnancy and in the Lying-in Room: with an Exposure of Popular Errors in connexion with those subjects, etc.

  19. Footnote 110: A complete report of the various proceedings in connexion with the conclusion of peace will be found in the Appendix of this book.

  20. I can remember the late President Brand saying in connexion with the diamond fields, 'Give them up; you will gain more by giving them up than by keeping them.

  21. A difficulty has arisen in connexion with the negotiations.

  22. The barrel and lock of a gun, in connexion with a dynamite cartridge, were placed under a sleeper, so that when a passing engine pressed the rail on to this machine, it exploded, and the train was blown up.

  23. Fifthly, no judicial proceedings, civil or criminal, shall be taken against any of the burghers who thus return for any action of theirs in connexion with the carrying on of the war.

  24. Fourthly, no judicial proceedings, civil or criminal, shall be taken against any of the burghers who thus return for any action in connexion with the carrying on of the war.

  25. The Hindús suppose that it drinks only the water of the clouds, and their poets usually introduce allusions to this bird in connexion with cloudy or rainy weather.

  26. The connexion between the velocity and the pressure of the wind is one that is not yet known with absolute certainty.

  27. There are greater difficulties in the exact determination in the amount of heat produced, but there are certain well-known facts in connexion with it.

  28. In this connexion it is noteworthy that so many of the higher forms are adapted as bulbous geophytes, or as aerophytes to special xerophilous conditions.

  29. In connexion with angina pectoris, a far more common condition must be mentioned that has now universally received the name of pseudo-angina.

  30. Serpent cults were well known in ancient Europe; there does not, it is true, appear to be much ground for supposing that Aesculapius was a serpent-god in spite of his connexion with serpents.

  31. Meanwhile, during Margaret's absence, Angus had formed a connexion with a daughter of the laird of Traquair.

  32. He was celebrated for his successful surgical treatment of fistula lacrymalis, and while at Genoa invented for use in connexion with the operation the fine-pointed syringe still known by his name.

  33. She had all the names of the parties, and pointed out (for she was a great genealogist) their connexion with existing families.

  34. He got into difficulties in business, formed a bad connexion with an artful woman, and was sent to try his fortunes in the West Indies.

  35. It is easy," he said, "no doubt for any friend to blame me for entering into connexion with commercial matters at all.

  36. It occurs also in immediate connexion with seeking help from the idols, in chap.

  37. But according to this view, every internal connexion of the verse before us with what follows is entirely destroyed.

  38. However, when Count Clairval began to cultivate a more intimate connexion with Antonio, I was made sensible that my expectations have been too sanguine.

  39. What connexion is there between fresh fish and foul words?

  40. The term used by English writers is "residuaries," but this description of them has the disadvantage that it entirely loses sight of the connexion on which the claim to succeed is based.

  41. The last named was opened in 1904, and is controlled by the Winona Lake corporation, having official connexion with several national trade unions.

  42. The relatives of the deceased, whether male or female, and whether tracing their connexion through males or females, may be sharers or residuaries.

  43. At this time took place the mysterious distribution of chapatis, small cakes of unleavened bread, which had previously been known in connexion with the mutiny at Vellore (1806).

  44. The first, called the Persian Gulf section, runs from Karachi to Bushire, from Jask to Muscat, and from Bushire to Fao, where a connexion is made with the Ottoman government line.

  45. A connexion for extending the system through Persia was signed in 1901, the route to be followed being from Kashan near Teheran to the Baluchistan frontier via Yezd and Kerman.

  46. Mohave Indians of the Yuman stock have as a distinctive feature of their culture "the high degree to which they have developed their system of dreaming and of individual instead of traditional connexion with the supernatural.

  47. A notable further instance of the connexion of the western Himalayan flora with that of Europe is the holm oak (Quercus Ilex), which is characteristic of the Mediterranean region.

  48. The priestly character of the shaman appears among the Plains tribes in connexion with the custody of the "sacred bundles" and the keeping of the ceremonial myths, &c.

  49. In Kashmir from the 8th century, if not earlier, till the Mahommedan conquest we find a style of architecture possessing a certain quasi-classical element which has little if any connexion with the art of the rest of India.

  50. Nott, Hybridity of Animals viewed in connexion with the natural history of mankind: Types of Mankind.

  51. It must, therefore, not be believed that there is any connexion between the scientific and the political question.

  52. What noble pages might be written on the close connexion which exists between all organized beings, both physically and morally!

  53. The horsemen mentioned in the same connexion are regarded by some critics as an interpolation, because they cannot bring themselves to think that the Philistines had cavalry corps in the Xth century B.

  54. Meyer saw a connexion between this and the invasion of the People of the Sea, which took place under Ramses III.

  55. The necessity of covering such vast surfaces as the pylons offered had accustomed them to arrange the various scenes of one and the same action in a more natural and intimate connexion than their predecessors could possibly have done.

  56. The part of counsellor which Thot played in connexion with the god of Byblos was described at some length in the writings attributed to Sankhoniathon.

  57. The digging and carting had been in connexion with the building of the new Council Schools, which stood rather high up above the West River, just opposite the station.

  58. In connexion with this she had read much of Educational Values that she did not understand in the very least.

  59. There was some connexion it seemed between beans and the Scripture story and after all Tommy Tregennis had listened although he had missed the point.

  60. In this connexion it is interesting to note the introduction of Greek or Roman detail in the columns that divide the scenes, to see saints gathered by temples of classic form instead of Gothic.

  61. Others there were who contributed adorable designs and helped build up the most exquisite expressions of modern art, but, alas, their modesty was such that their names are scarce known in connexion with the art they vivified.

  62. The hand is not a thing appended, or put on to the body, like an additional movement in a watch; but a thousand intricate relations must be established throughout the whole frame in connexion with it.

  63. They were not reckoned in connexion with literature at all.


  64. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "connexion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.