As this intimacy grew, the barrier which is the chief stumbling-block of missionaries and teachers who seek to carry enlightenment into the lean lone land, gradually dissolved.
Thus the way was paved for a closer intimacy which quickly grew into an eager willingness among the Indians to help her in the mastering of their own language.
For in spite of her intimacy with Nora and Edith, Brenda permitted herself to be too greatly influenced by Belle.
Haven't you heard of the tremendous intimacy that has sprung up between Julia and Madame Du Launy since she rescued her little Fidessa from the park police?
But for Julia one of the pleasantest results of the Christmas tree was the intimacy which grew up between her and Miss South, a rather unusual friendship to have arisen between a girl of sixteen and a woman ten years older.
I had the pleasure of forming an intimacy with your lamented and gallant son during his stay here; an intimacy which soon ripened into a true friendship.
He was in comfortable lodgings, and had established an intimacy with a gentleman of superior literary acquirements, personally acquainted with many London celebrities of our day.
McDonough, in his examination, gave altogether a falsified account respecting the loss of the camels, as he also made a bombastic statement of his greatintimacy with Mr. Burke.
Withal he was no brawler; and even in pious Athens, where he taught in peace for many years, he might have died in peace but for his intimacy with the most renowned of his pupils, Perikles.
It may be understood that in this way an intimacy was created, but it must not be understood that the intimacy was of such a nature as to be injurious to the fair fame of the lady.
He remained two days at Bowick, so necessary was it for him to renew hisintimacy with Mr. Peacocke.
He is accused of having boasted, without foundation, of hisintimacy with Madame de Lesharre.
I know enough both of his disposition and of the intimacy between himself and this lady, to make me think it probable he will seek to make her his instrument and accomplice, should he require one.
The intensity and controlling power of this instinct over our actions seems to vary with the degree of intimacy and intercommunication between the individual and the group.
The instinct of gregariousness seems unquestionably to be most intense where there is intimacy and vividness of group association.
I had, indeed, found the unspeakable joy of intimacy surpassing and atoning for all, but not yet the peculiar higher joy of an intimacy, with greater disparity, between youth and maid.
It did not look inviting for a woman accustomed to the choice solidity of a Dutch house, and the well-sustained intimacy of a Dutch landscape, where man and nature through long-continued symbiosis have grown together in a harmonious union.
I thought all intimacy glorious if it was but very fervent, and even entertained some vague notion regarding the great joy of an intimacy and cordiality embracing all, man and woman, young and old.
It had never occurred to me to seek for any connection between the wondrously blissful emotions of intimacy that continually occupied me - and certain physical sensations which only alarmed me because I thought them unhealthy.
But she was scrupulous enough to feel herself bound even by an unconfessed affection, by the intimacy of our conversations and by the one kiss.
This is done with an intimacy of knowledge and fullness of appreciation that could not be possible in a stranger.
It is, after all, convenient to treat this feeling of delightful intimacy as a kind of knowledge.
It was this intimacy which bad first brought Anthony Dalaber to the Bridge House; and having once come, he came again and yet again, till he was regarded in the light of a friend and comrade.
She had at first rejoiced at Audrey's intimacywith the Havilands, for various reasons.
In Audrey Craven he had found the indispensable thing--intimacy without love, or even, as he understood the word, friendship.
Her intimacy with Selby was open gossip, and there were winks and thrustings of the tongue in any group of men when she passed by.
Henry Brierly was at the Dilworthy's constantly and on such terms of intimacythat he came and went without question.
Few were admitted to such intimacy with him as to look into the deeper qualities of the mind--but those who were, saw there the sturdy honesty of John Bull, and the courageous heart and independent spirit of his own America.
He had determined to discourage, and, if possible, completely to overthrow any intimacy which Mr. Grahame had acknowledged to him was not unattended with danger.
Let Monsieur Gregoriev assure himself of the character of his associates before proceeding with an intimacy which the government will be unable long to overlook.
Joseph knelt on the floor at her side, her hands clasped in his, the broken, cryptic syllables of innermost intimacy already flowing familiarly between them.
By swift degrees he ceased his intimacywith them all: Laroche, Kashkine, Balakirev, nay, Nicholas himself.
And in time their intimacy reached a point where Ivan began actually to confide musically in her:--a woman!
The resignation put him still further beyond the old pale of intimacy with composers, painters and writers: the cream of that intellectual and artistic Bohemia of which he had so long been an esteemed citizen.
The friendship between Bonaparte and Bourrienne began in boyhood, at the school of Brienne, and their unreserved intimacy continued during the most brilliant part of Napoleon's career.
My intimacy with both the husband and the wife fortunately afforded me an opportunity of averting or lessening a good deal of mischief.
Besides, on one occasion Madame Moreau's mother, when at Malmaison, had indulged in sharp remarks on a suspected scandalous intimacy between Bonaparte and his young sister Caroline, then just married.
Madame de Bourrienne, knowing the intimacy which subsisted between us, preserved some notes which she made upon Bonaparte, and the circumstances which struck her as most remarkable, during her early connection with him.
Had I been then in the First Consul's intimacy I may aver, with as much confidence as pride, that the blood of the Due d'Enghien would not have imprinted an indelible stain on the glory of Bonaparte.
Our intimacy was resumed, and he gave me an account of, all that had passed in the campaign of the south.
How often in the days of my intimacy with Bonaparte has he not said to me, "Who knows the names of those kings who have passed from the thrones on which chance or birth seated them?
Besides, among those who surrounded him I alone could have permitted myself some return to our former familiarity on account of our intimacy of childhood.
I insert this letter merely as a proof of the intimacy which existed between the writers and myself.
Madame Walmoden was then a refugee at Hamburg, and between her and my family a closeintimacy existed.
I am sorry for it, not only because both are dear to me, but because the circumstance countenances the infamous reports that are current among the idle as to my intimacy with her.
But Bourrienne's hands were not clean in money matters, and that was an unpardonable sin in any one who desired to be in real intimacy with Napoleon.
She was not ignorant that a close intimacy had already sprung up at Milan between Caroline and Murat, and she was the first to propose a marriage.
It has been said that Bonaparte on becoming Emperor wished to restore that decorum which the Revolution had destroyed, and therefore resolved to put an end to the improper intimacy which subsisted between Talleyrand and Madame Grandt.
I then instructed him to follow Bernardi until he should have an opportunity to make his acquaintance; this could be done without difficulty in a drinking or billiard saloon, and he was then to cultivate an intimacy with him.
After Newton had made his report to me, early the next morning, I told him to continue his intimacy with Bernardi, and to pump him as thoroughly as possible relative to Don Pedro's past history.
She prattled on for some time about her intimacy with Mr. Trafton, until she was interrupted by a noise in the hall bedroom.
She also asked Ingham to swear to a number of falsehoods about her intimacywith Trafton, and when he refused to do so, for fear of being tried for perjury, she said that she could get "her Billy" to swear to anything.
Her allegations of intimacy with young Trafton were unsupported, save by the testimony of this William Simpson, her paramour.
If people suspect her of improper intimacy with McIntyre, why do they admit her to their houses?
Corsica through the influence of Messalina, on the charge of too great intimacywith Julia Livilla, Caligula's younger sister.
She spoke earnestly and wondered as she did so why she had never felt any curiosity before as to the break of the intimacy between Edmonson and his friend, for, evidently, there had been a coolness, something more than mere separation.
After a moment's hesitation he added, "I see you look surprised: the intimacy between us seemed to you close?
Ingram talked of all their excursions together, in Devonshire, in Brittany and elsewhere, to impress on Sheila how well he knew his friend and how long their intimacyhad lasted.
He is one of my oldest friends,” said Sheila, bravely; she would not acknowledge that their intimacy was a thing of the past.
Chiefly on account of his intimacy with Fonseca he was some years later given a governorship in the neighbourhood of the Gulf of Darien; Juan de la Cosa accompanying him as unofficial partner.
The Admiral, however, was not to be so lonely a person as he had been on his first voyage; friends of his own choice and of a rank that made intimacy possible even with the Captain-General were to accompany him.
Footnote 3230: The formality which this indicates will be understood by those familiar with the use of the pronoun thou in France, denoting intimacy and freedom from restraint in contrast with ceremonious and formal intercourse.
An extreme curiosity, says Horace Walpole,[2232] or a great familiarity with things, is necessary to detect the slightest intimacy between the two sexes.
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